About the job

Job summary

The Defence Medical Services (DMS) is a core, critical support ‘Function’ within Defence, providing high quality, safe, occupationally focused healthcare to UK Armed Forces personnel stationed or Operationally Deployed across the UK and the rest of the world. Our unifying purpose: to ensure Armed Forces personnel are fit to fight, and supported to fight back to fitness.

 

To achieve its purpose, the DMS provides a comprehensive range of primary healthcare services (PHC, Dental, Mental Health, Rehabilitation) in over 400 facilities (globally), promoting, protecting and restoring the health of the UK armed forces; whilst also enabling the delivery of Healthcare on Deployment, and the careful management of patients in transition back to the UK.

 

Project and Programme Managers play a vital role in enabling the DMS to improve its healthcare services and operations. Working as part of a team of Portfolio Delivery professionals, our team supports each other to design, plan and deliver successful outcomes across an exciting and challenging healthcare transformation and modernisation portfolio.

 

This role requires an experienced, suitably qualified Project Delivery professional, with experience of delivering change and improvement within a healthcare setting. The successful candidate will also be expected to a commitment to developing their own skills, and the abilities of their peers, with access to a support network; and extensive opportunities to learn and develop via cross-government project delivery groups, communities of practice, and the many Training and Development opportunities available across the DMS, Defence and Government.

 

The successful candidate will initially be assigned to the delivery of an exciting, high-profile programme, championed and supported by the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak. The Catterick Integrated Care Campus is a joint programme between the Ministry of Defence and the National Health Service, building, designing and establishing the first purposely designed healthcare facility resourced by both the MOD and NHS, providing a range of healthcare services supporting local NHS patients and UK Armed Forces personnel stationed at Catterick Garrisson, North Yorkshire. More information on the programme vision can be found here: www.northyorkshireccg.nhs.uk/cicc/

Strategic Command Transformation 

Strategic Command is going through a significant transformation programme which aims to improve the way the Command conducts its business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence of this, all posts within Strategic Command Headquarters and in time the wider organisation, are/will be subject to review and potential changes as we continuously improve across the period of the transformation programme. These changes may be minor or could be more substantive and will generate new opportunities.  Throughout, the Command’s transformation programme is committed to following the MOD’s framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places an emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Command’s personnel and Trade Unions. 

Job description

The successful candidate will design, plan, build, cohere, govern and assure a set of connected, benefits led projects aimed at achieving a defined package of Outcomes that mitigate organisational risk, and or improve strategic outputs. The Programme Manager will develop the Business Case on behalf of the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO), create and manage the Resource Plan, report progress to the Board, and lead assigned project staff, business Subject Matter Experts (SME) and key enabling stakeholders and customers to plan and deliver the desired outputs, change and outcomes.

Person specification

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

• Creating and cascading the Vision and Roadmap to transformation within area of responsibility, translating strategic direction into a clear, coherent, achievable and benefits led journey.
• Providing direction and guidance to senior leadership, delivering and changing teams, turning the Vision into Objectives and developing the projects, programmes, cultures and ways of working that will enable successful delivery of the Roadmap, Objectives and Target Benefits.
• Developing and clearing strategic business cases with project leads and SMEs. 
• Identifying and managing stakeholder relationships and highlight need for senior level support. Managing internal and external relationships as appropriate. 
• Securing resources and direct planning, scheduling, resourcing and estimating for complex and large scale programmes.

Please refer to the Terms of Reference for all job responsibilities. 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £57,670, Ministry of Defence contributes £15,570 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.

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.  

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.  

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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. 

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

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Working for the Civil Service

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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.