About the job

Job summary

Welcome to Defence Medical Services, we are a dedicated, inclusive, and hardworking group working to provide excellent clinical and administrative support to our entitled personnel.

Are you experienced with complex project delivery? Do you enjoy using problem solving skills to improve services and output? Have you got excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to articulate the requirements and outcomes of the project both in person and in writing?

Are you looking for a new challenge that can really help make a difference? Then please apply.

This is a full time role consisting of 37 hours per week.

Job description

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 a project within 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 Garrison, 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. 

Person specification

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

• Motivating, Coordinating and Leading multidisciplinary teams in the delivery of approved project plans. Making day to day decisions in line with approved plans.
• Managing, reporting and where required, escalating Risks, Issues, Opportunities. Additionally, monitor Assumptions and Dependencies to effect and in line with wider programme methodologies.
• Working with dependent projects and programmes to align schedules, deconflict, collaborate and identify opportunities.
• Leading on associated procurement activities in support of project acquisition objectives and in line with Defence and Government Commercial policy.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

If invited to interview, please prepare and deliver a presentation, lasting no longer than 10 minutes, under the title Project Management Skills Application, outlining how you have applied your project management qualifications and experience in the delivery of a complex set of outcomes. Include a description of:

• The problems/opportunities
• Your approach to developing solutions
• How you planned for success
• How you delivered successful outcomes
• Any key learning points 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes £11,631 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, Experience and Technical skills.

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, blending a balance of attendance in the workplace (your permanent duty station which is based on business assessment of where the work is best done) and working from home as a personal choice (if the role is suitable for this). If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

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.

Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.

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.

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.

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 post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.

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.