About the job

Job summary

Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.

DPHC is a vibrant and fast paced organisation that seeks to sustain and improve the operational efficiency of ill and injured service personnel.

Are you a Civilian Medical Practitioner (CMP) looking for a fascinating role working alongside the military, that offers numerous benefits and opportunities for career-development in a phenomenal team?

Here at HMS Neptune, HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane we have a CMP Fixed Term Appointment that will end 28/02/2025. The post is full time offering 37 hour per week. Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs. Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.

Job description

The successful candidate will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team within the Practice to provide primary and occupational healthcare in line with General Medical Council (GMC) Standards to ensure that the organisational and Principal Medical Officer (PMO) objectives are achieved to optimise patient care.

Person specification

Duties and responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

• Providing general healthcare to all registered patients during normal practice hours.
• Maximising the levels of health, wellbeing and employability of Service personnel to ensure the needs of the single Services are met.
• Undertaking mandatory medical examinations and providing appropriate occupational healthcare and advice, and all supporting administrative duties.
• Providing primary care emergency treatment to any patient who may require this within the Establishment.

Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and Person Specification, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £83,032, Ministry of Defence contributes £22,419 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

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

The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV and application form. At interview, you will be tested against the following Behaviours: 

• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

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

Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form. Please make sure no personal details are included.

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 for interview

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. You will need to copy and paste the link into your browser.

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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.

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. 

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

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. 

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.  

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, Making the Civil Service a Great Place to Work for Veterans - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) 

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-sgdmsresourcingteam@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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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.