About the job

Job summary

Are you looking for an exciting role, working alongside the military, which offers numerous benefits and opportunities?

If so, we are looking to recruit a highly skilled, organised, and enthusiastic Civilian Medical Practitioner (CMP) to join our supportive and welcoming team at Defence Primary Health Care (DPHC) Aldergrove, Aldergrove Flying Station, Crumlin.

Defence Primary Health Care (DPHC) Aldergrove provide a unique blend of traditional team based primary care and occupational health support to military personnel and their families. DPHC has a strong emphasis on education with numerous opportunities to train military medics, nurses, and Doctors and there are also expanding opportunities to develop in leadership roles and areas of special interest.

The vacant post is a full-time position working 37 hours per week. Part-time candidates will be considered but due to service delivery requirements it must be on a job share basis as full-time hours need to be covered.

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

Job description

The successful postholder will be responsible for providing primary and occupational healthcare in line with GMC Standards to ensure that our objectives to optimise patient care are met, supporting DPHC in delivering a safe and effective service. The post holder will also participate in the mentoring of junior personnel, helping to ensure that their training needs are met.

Although the post is based at Aldergrove Medical Facility, the successful candidate will also be required to provide cross cover at Holywood and Lisburn Medical Facilities when required.

This post is eligible for NI RRA of £750.

Person specification

Main details of the role include but are not limited to:

• Providing general healthcare to all registered patients during normal practice hours.
• Improving 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 appropriate preventative medical advice to both individuals and Chain of Command.
• Appropriately supervising the management of communicable diseases, including monitoring and reporting through single Service chains.
• Providing primary care emergency treatment to any patient who may require this within the Establishment.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full list of duties.

Desirable Experience:

• Knowledge of medical IT systems used within the Defence Medical Services.
• Occupational health and in particular military occupational health.
• Musculoskeletal medicine.
• Experience of Armed Forces Medicine, relevant to the single Service environment, i.e.Aviation Medicine.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £83,032, Ministry of Defence contributes £22,418 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.

Flexible working will be subject to local arrangements. It is expected that there will be limited scope for flexible hours due to the working hours of medical centres.

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

The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form. 

The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV.  At interview, you will be tested against the Civil Service (Success Profiles) Behaviours specified in the advert.

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.  

Defence Medical Services - YouTube 

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.

The successful candidate will require an Access NI Check (Enhanced with adults and children's barred list). 

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

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.  

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.