About the job

Job summary

Are you a driven person who could work within a team at the forefront of the Royal Navy’s Health and Wellbeing? We are seeking a professional to implement initiatives within Health and Wellbeing delivery in the Royal Navy and assure the Health and Wellbeing impact across the Navy. With a Force of over 25 thousand personnel who are routinely separated from family and friends at home whilst facing difficult challenges in the harshest of conditions it is key that we understand their Health and Wellbeing needs and provide appropriate support throughout their careers. This strategic vision also includes support to our Civilian workforce, both here in the UK and deployed globally, and our civilian mariners in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary who deliver vital resources to our Fleet worldwide.

 

We firmly believe that our operational success rests firmly upon the quality of our people - they are our ultimate capability. Maintaining their health and wellbeing is a major contributor to the moral and physical components of Operational Capability. The role holder will need to deliver against the Defence Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2022-2026 with a focus on improving deployability and employability, facilitate physical and mental fitness and promote lifelong health behaviours including but not limited to;

 

• Reducing smoking prevalence
• Reducing alcohol consumption
• Encouraging healthy weight management
• Improving mental fitness

 

Distilled from the Defence Health and Wellbeing Strategy are 6 strategic objectives we want the role holder to deliver against;

 

Join Well.  Recruiting Royal Navy People whose physical and mental health, with reasonable adjustment where appropriate, enables them to undertake their chosen career within the Naval Service.  

 

Train Well.  Royal Navy People have access to training and education opportunities in a safe, supportive environment in order to maximise positive personal health behaviours and to support professional and personal development.  

 

Live Well.  Royal Navy People adopt a lifestyle which optimises their health and wellbeing, including a sensible approach to alcohol, smoking, sexual health, diet, mental health and fitness. 

 

Work Well. Royal Navy People are supported to maintain or improve their health through healthy workplaces according to appropriate levels of risk management.  

 

Leave Well.  Royal Navy People transition back into the wider community in optimum mental and physical health.

 

Re-Join Well.  Royal Navy People transition back into service taking into account their mental and physical health.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

We need the role holder to do:

 

Co-ordinate, review and guide Unit Health Committee (UHC) activity so that there is assurance that the establishment/Ships/Submarine/Unit is meeting its performance metrics and Key Performance Indicators across the Royal Navy.

 

Produce reports and analysis demonstrating service performance and trends against agreed Health and Wellbeing plan and performance indicators.

 

Lead with assurance/audit visits, including ad hoc visits as and when required.

 

Evaluate the programmes in conjunction with Defence and provide ongoing assurance visits to ensure compliance with policy (including appropriate misconduct action). 

Person specification

Responsibility
Co-ordinate, review and guide UHC activity so that there is assurance that the establishment/Ships/Submarine/Unit is meeting its performance metrics and KPIs across the Royal Navy. Develop, integrate and evaluate RFA and Civilian appropriate interventions and associated performance metrics into UHC and wellbeing activity.   Guide, support and advise UHCs and COs of best practice within the Wellbeing priorities as well as the on-going monitoring of delivery, identification of issues. and how these can be addressed.   Produce reports and analysis demonstrating service performance and trends against agreed HWB plan and performance indicators.   Support with assurance/audit visits, including ad hoc visits as and when required.   Contribute to and the implementation of performance improvement plans, while providing information on the areas requiring improvement, escalating as appropriate.
Provide Lifestyle and Unit Health and Wellbeing briefs to courses and serial including, but not limited to LPTQC, Sea Aquaints Course, POPTQC, CPOPTQC and PDev Officers
Provide unit support in the transition to smoke free working environments including signposting and providing smoking cessation services. After year 1 the focus will shift to the next HWB priority.   Evaluate the programmes in conjunction with Defence and provide ongoing assurance visits to ensure compliance with policy (including appropriate misconduct action).
Conduct, compile, benchmark and share evaluation of wellbeing tools/interventions, resources, activities, events, comms, (working with PIIAC to capture and measure appropriately)
Ensure the relevant policies/guidance (including BR3 , BR51, JSP 661)and other key reference documents are up to date and maintained including the RN HWB strategy.
Support SO1 Health and Wellbeing to provide written and oral briefs including: routine senior boards; ministerial submissions; visits from external authorities; internal personnel sub-portfolio meetings

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,290, Ministry of Defence contributes £9,528 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.

This vacancy assesses candidates through Success Profiles, the new recruitment framework used within the Civil Service.

 

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

Your suitability for the role will be assessed using the Success Profile elements that have been chosen for this campaign. Each element will be scored accordingly.

 

We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of gender and ethnic group. Appointment will be based on merit alone.

Please submit a CV alongside a suitability statement of 1250 words that details your experience in relation to the role and covers Leadership and changing and Improving from the following behaviours. We will assess you on the other behaviours during the interview process.

• Leadership
• Changing and Improving
• Seeing the Bigger Picture
• Working Together

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-Resourcingteam3@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.

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and 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.

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.