Band 6 Primary Care Nurse (Civilian)
Job Description
Job summary
Here at Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC), we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel!
We are seeking to recruit a full time dynamic, organised and enthusiastic Band 6 Primary Care Nurse to join our friendly, vibrant and fast paced organisation here at Hamworthy Barracks.
This position offers 37.5 hours per week and requests to work flexibly will be considered, in the case of a job share this will need to make up the full time hours taking into account the business needs.
Could this be the role for you? If so, we'd love to hear from you.
We offer the following employee benefits:
- NHS pension
- Free parking
- Access to gym
- An inclusive working environment
- Learning and development opportunities
Main duties of the job
Our successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary primary healthcare team delivering general medical services and elements of occupational health to military personnel and entitled civilian personnel.
You will work unsupervised, and be responsible for the delivery of appropriate assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care needs, medical screening and providing advice to patients within your professional competence.
About us
Our success depends on our people, our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.
Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.
In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.
If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.
Job responsibilities
As the successful candidate your duties include but are not limited to:
- Perform and supervise tasks required for the general running and administration of the Treatment Room, ensuring care delivery in accordance with national, Service policy and protocols, whilst matching care provision to the needs of the Service.
- Assess the needs of patients against a recognised model of care, implement and evaluate care ensuring patients receive care according to practice guidelines and delegate care accordingly; this includes prioritising treatment and care.
- Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, and individualised patient care
- Have direct responsibility for patient caseload, ensuring all patients have an accurate plan of care, which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporate the issues and recommendations
- Undertake men and womens health screening and education along with provision of family planning services and sexual health whilst working within their areas of competence.
- Undertake preventative Health programmes, Screening programmes and Ministry of Defence (MOD) deployment guidance e.g. travel and vaccination clinics, new patients screening, audiometry, and NHS Health Checks.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for role requirements in further detail.
The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the following NHS Skills Framework :
NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
NHS Core NHSC2 - Personal & People Development
NHS Core NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB1 Promotion of Health & Wellbeing
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 Assessment & Care Planning
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment
NHS General NHS G6 People Management
Please ensure the required skills, qualifications and memberships are demonstrated in your application.
The successful candidate will be required to provide evidence of the following:
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) unrestricted registration
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Supporting Learning and Assessing with experience providing mentorship and/or coaching to other staff
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Specialist knowledge across a range of procedures underpinned by theory.
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Experienced and competent in history taking and physical assessment and the triage & treatment of minor injury/illness, immunisation, venepuncture, ear care, audiology, travel medicine, wound care, cervical screening; willingness to undertake specific training to fulfil competency for role and DPHC/MOD training as required
- A Registered Nurse with professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma, supplemented by diploma level specialist training, experience, short courses.
- In date Basic Life Support (BLS), Anaphylaxis, Automated External Defibrillation (AED), Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), Safeguarding Level 3 (Children and Adult) & willingness to fulfil training updates as required.
To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
Further Information
The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.
Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
When choosing your Technical Skills examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in your CV and that you have saved it, making sure that any reference to your personal details have been removed from your CV prior to submitting your application.
Please see the link to our YouTube channel for advice preparing your best responses with some hints and tips on answering behaviour-based questions. Hints and tips such as: Your behaviours can be based on situations from work, volunteering or home; match your situation to the behaviour requested and how to use your 250-word limit. https://www.youtube.com/@DMS_MilMed
Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.
There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.
This post does not offer any assistance with relocation allowances.
Travel to interview costs will not be reimbursed.
If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Failure to provide evidence of your immunity may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.
We encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply. Please see the attached further information document for full details.
All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS)for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
If you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.
Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment ...
