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Band 5 Practice Nurse
The closing date is 03 September 2025
Here at Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) we are aninclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to ourentitled personnel.
Are you a motivated individual who strives todeliver excellent healthcare?
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to joina large organisation working as part of a professional encouraging team?
Do you want to be part of a great organisationwhich has great additional benefits? Look no further!
Defence Primary Health Care (DPHC) Central and Wessex region are lookingfor a dynamic, organised, and efficient Band 5 Practice Nurse whowill be working within our Primary Health Care team at Halton Medical Centre.
Main duties of the job
As the successful candidate, you will work as partof a multidisciplinary primary healthcare team, leading the delivery of primaryhealthcare nursing including elements of occupational health.
Due to the nature of the business, it would bebeneficial if you have prior experience of primary care. Please see theattached Job Description and Person Specification for more information.
We are searching for someone who is able towork unsupervised, providing high-quality nursing care to the medical facilitypopulation at risk holding an individual case load, and through consultationidentify, assess, and manage the care of patients with complex health needs,minor injuries, minor illnesses, and specific diseases within their level ofcompetence.
Manyof our practices are networked and linked to provide support to each other. Onoccasion within your planned working schedule, you may be requested to work atthe linked practice site. In these situations, travel time and cost will beallowed for.
Training and Preceptorship will be provided todevelop your skills and knowledge to work effectively in our teams.
We welcome applications from newly qualifiedRegistered Nurses at the start of their Nursing career, please see detailsbelow.
About us
Our success depends on our people our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.
Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.
In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.
If youve ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.
Job responsibilities
Asthe successful candidate your duties include but are not limited to:
Providing specialist high-qualityperson-centred primary care which always considers peoples safety, privacy and dignity usinghigh quality clinical knowledge that is evidence based, with use of corehealthcare guidelines.
Being responsible for the delivery ofappropriate treatment, screening, and advice to patients within theirprofessional competence and in accordance with (DPHC) clinical guidelines andprotocols
Providing safe, evidence-based, efficient,and individualised patient care
Undertaking preventative healthprogrammes such as travel and vaccination clinics, new patients screening, audiometry.
Undertaking technical nursingtreatments and procedures for patients complex/specialist healthcare needs (e.g.,wound care, sutures removal, Electrocardiograms (ECGs), Cytology, Audiometry,Ear Care)
Providing specialist advice andsupport to patients, their families and other healthcare professionalsfollowing assessment, diagnosis and through treatment
Please see the attached Job Description and PersonSpecification for additional job duties and responsibilities.
The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV.At interview, you will be tested against the following NHSCompetencies:
NHS Core - NHSC1 CommunicationLevel 2
NHS Core NHSC2 Personal &People Development Level 2
NHS Core NHSC3 Health Safety& Security Level 3
NHS Core NHSC4 ServiceImprovement Level 2
NHS Core - NHSC5 Quality Level 2
NHS Core NHSC6 Equality andDiversity Level 2
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB1Promotion of Health and Wellbeing Level 2
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2Assessment & Care Planning Level 3
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB3Protection of Health and Wellbeing Level 2
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6Assessment and Treatment Planning Level 2
NHS Information & Knowledge NHSIK2 Information Collection & Analysis Level 1
Further informationrelating to the KSF Competencies and Levels can befound here: NHS KSFand development review process (scot.nhs.uk)
The Interview willconsist of a Mix of direct questions and Clinical Situation based Scenarios.
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have therequired skills, qualifications, and memberships in your CV and that you havesaved it using your surname then first name prior to submitting yourapplication.
To be eligible to be considered for this role,qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior tosubmitting your application.
The successful candidate will be required toprovide evidence of the following:
Professional/clinical knowledgeacquired through training to degree/diploma level.
Registered Nursewith live registration on Part 1 Subsection 1 (RN1/RN(A)) of the UK NMC register.
Applicants with NMC PIN in Progress (NMC PiP)
As part of the MOD standard pre-employment checksproof of NMC Registration and PIN number is required. Applicants who candemonstrate that they have successfully completed their Nursing Degree (Adult)Level 6 or Nursing Diploma (Adult) Level 5; but are awaiting their PIN numberare eligible to apply for this post.
If successful applicant(s) will start as apre-registered nurse AfC Band 3 until NMC Registration is confirmed andreceived. One receipt of PIN pay will be adjusted to AfC Band 5. Please notethe salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.
Successful candidates must meet thesecurity requirements before they can be appointed. The level of securityneeded is security check.
Due to the high interest in these roles only the top 8 candidates thatscore over the quality line will be offered an interview.
We are currently unable to open documents saved inthe docx format. If your CV is in this format, please re-save in a differentformat prior to uploading. Should you submit in the docx format, your CV maynot be considered for the vacancy.
There is no requirement to deploy as this is met byour uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required byour patients when based at home.
Requests to work flexibly will be considered, takinginto account business needs.
If found successful for this position, you will berequired to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Failure toprovide evidence of your immunity may result in the offer of employment beingwithdrawn.
All employees joining Ministry of Defence who arenew to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unlessotherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.
As a result of the changes to the UKimmigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry ofDefence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-basedsystem, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.
The role currently being advertised has not beenassessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications fromthose who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should youapply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application willbe rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
Pleaseensure you have read all the details in the importantinformation link prior to applying.
Person Specification
* Please provide your membership registration number.
* You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application.
* Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.
Behaviour Statement
* Have you been dismissed for gross misconduct relating to bullying, harassment, discrimination or victimisation from any role in the past five years, or resigned or otherwise left a role but would have been dismissed for such gross misconduct because of an adverse decision, had you continued in that employment?
* Please respond with Yes or No as appropriate.
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse on sub-Part 1 (RN1/RN(A)) of the Nursing and Midwifery Council register.
* Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
* Must be in date for Basic Life Support (BLS) Anaphylaxis, Automated External Defibrillation (AED) Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Safeguarding Level 3 (Children and Adult) depending on population at risk) or willingness to undertake training.
* To be proficient in relevant Information Technology (IT) systems subject to appropriate training being provided.
* Willingness to undertake specific training to fulfil competency for role (e.g., audiometry, ear care, minor illness/injury, physical assessment, and history taking, travel health) and DPHC/MOD training as appropriate.
Provide a CV
* Please copy and paste your full CV as your response to this question; you will not be able to upload your CV as an attachment.
* Please ensure to refer to the essential criteria where applicable as your application may be rejected should insufficient information to shortlist be included.
* Please use double spacing where possible
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.
Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)
£29,970 to £36,483 a yearper annum; pro-rata; pay award pending
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