About the job

Job summary

Here at Defence Primary Healthcare (Scotland and Northern Ireland) (DPHC) (SNI), we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.

We are looking to recruit a dynamic, organised and enthusiastic Band 5 Exercise Rehabilitation Instructor who will be working within our team located at the Neptune Medical Centre, His Majesty's (HM) Naval Base Clyde, Helensburgh.

This is a full-time position at 37.5 hrs per week, however, requests to work flexibly and/or part-time will be considered taking into account business needs. A £3,000 per annum allowance that is due to come into force from 01 Jan 24 for NHS AfC staff in Scotland.

Does this sound like the role for you? If so, we would love to hear from you.

Job description

As the successful candidate, you will be working within the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Programme (DMRP) providing a high standard of exercise based rehabilitation including highly specialist work in the musculo-skeletal/sports and training injury area for the Population at Risk (PAR), meeting Standards for Better Health by using a multidisciplinary approach.

You will provide full support to the line manager in ensuring the provision of a comprehensive and professional rehabilitation service for entitled personnel. This will include undertaking highly skilled and specialist work, peer review and support to Junior/other ERIs working within the Unit.

Person specification

Responsibilities include and are not limited to:

• To perform appropriate clinical assessments and to design and implement safe and progressive exercise treatment schedules for all patients after the MO/Physiotherapist has made a diagnosis.
• To communicate effectively with patients to ensure informed consent for treatment, good understanding of their conditions and maximise their rehabilitation potential.
• To provide clinical reports to assist in the comprehensive discharge planning for both referring source and ongoing patient care under other health professionals.
• To provide a positive caring environment, in which patients can expect a high quality.

For the full list of job duties and responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.

Benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• An NHS Pension

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.

The selection at sift stage will be based on your application. 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.

At interview, you will be tested against the following NHS Technical SKills:

• NHS Core HSC1 Communication
• NHS Core NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
• NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
• NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
• NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning.
• NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment.

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. To be eligible to be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

Further Information

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed. 

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview. 

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. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check. 

Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.  

Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.

Please be aware that MoD medical roles based in Scotland will be aligned with the Agenda for Change NHS Pay Scales and Bands for England and Wales. 

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. 

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 withdrawn. 

The successful applicant will have contact with patients and service users.  During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, patients and service users.  MOD policy remains aligned with the government position that vaccines are the best way to protect yourself and others from the risk of getting seriously ill/dying from COVID-19 and reducing the risk of spreading COVID-19 to others.  We therefore encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply.  Detail concerning the options available for vaccination against COVID-19, along with information on risks and side effects is available from: Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines - NHS (www.nhs.uk) to enable individuals to make an informed decision. 

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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 to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact DBSCivPers-SGDMSResourcing@mod.gov.uk

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.