Job description

Job responsibilities

Responsibilities include and are not limited to:

• Providing advice and recommendations to MO/GP on all matters of mental health, care and treatment which will include occupational advice on the individuals ability to be employed in their operational role. At times this will include communicating, where appropriate, on occupational information directly to the service persons Chain of Command (CoC) whilst respecting the principle of patient confidentiality.
• Providing recognised and clinically recommended interventions and managerial guidance for an identified, varied and often complex caseload, the needs of which can be safely met within the clinical time available and the clinical expertise possessed.
• Producing clinical reports to MO/GP and other relevant professional agencies after initial assessment, on discharge from caseload and where otherwise indicated/appropriate.
• Providing initial assessment and formulation of the needs for referred patients, planning, implementing and evaluating care with a high level of autonomy.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification document for additional duties.

Selection Process Details

The selection at sift stage will be based on your application form. At interview, you will be tested against the following NHS Technical Skills:

• NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 Assessment & Care Planning.
• NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning.
• NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment.
• NHS General NHS G6 People Management.
• NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK2 Information Collection & Analysis.

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 your application form and saved under your name before submitting your application.

Further Information

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment as of 31st December 2022. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held at (TBC) 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.

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.

The successful applicant will have contact with patients and service users. In-line with the NHS England approach, MOD is in the process of making full vaccination a condition of deployment for its healthcare workers employed across the UK. In order to comply with our duty of care, we require our staff to have the COVID vaccine and we will ask for proof of vaccination status during the recruitment process. 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.

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.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, <a href=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans/>Making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans</a>

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 [email protected].

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) registration as an occupational therapist or practitioner psychologist or Social Work England Registered
• Social Worker with Post-graduate training and accreditation in NICE recognised modality for common mental disorders (e.g. CBT, Dynamic Interpersonal
• Therapy (DIT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Counselling for Depression etc).
• or
• Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Registered Mental Health Nurse with Post-graduate training and accreditation in NICE recognised modality for
• common mental disorders (e.g. CBT, Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Counselling for Depression etc).
• or
• United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) or British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) registered psychotherapist with Postgraduate training and accreditation in NICE recognised modality for common mental disorders (e.g. CBT, Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT),
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Counselling for Depression etc).
• All above with:
• Demonstrable experience of working as a graduate level professional in adult mental health.
• Experience of working in adult community mental health.
• Experience of service and/or line management responsibility.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website .

Employer details

Employer name

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

Address

Fulwood Barracks

Watling Street Road

Fulwood

Preston

PR2 8AA