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Band 5 Registered Nurse
The closing date is 22 July 2025
Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) Stanford Hall is an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to serving military personnel.
DMRC delivers consultant led, safe and effective specialist interdisciplinary rehabilitation servicesto meet the needs of our patients and chain of Command.
We will be recognised as a worldleader in military rehabilitation and research, maximising the skills of an integrated workforce, resulting in greateremployability and deployability across Defence.
Are you looking for an exciting role, working alongside the military where numerous benefits and opportunities are available?
If you are a dynamic, organised and enthusiastic Band 5 Registered Nurse then we need you! So come and join our friendly and supportiveteam at DMRC Stanford Hall, Stanford on Soar, Loughborough.
We have 3 full time positions offering 37.5 hours a week. Requests to workflexibly or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.
Could this be the role for you? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
* Learning and development tailored to your role
* A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
* Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
* Onsite shop
* Free Parking
* Access to a Gym
* Defence Discount Card which offers discount in many shops and on-lineshopping - subcription cost applies.
Main duties of the job
DMRC StanfordHall is a part of Strategic Command. TheUnit provides a rehabilitation service for the Defence Medical Services(DMS).
Within DMRC rehabilitation teamsinclude Complex Trauma, Neurological Services, Force Generation (Spines andUpper Quadrant, Specialist Rehab, Lower Limbs) and Pain Management Service. Patients seen at DMRC have a variety ofconditions and are rehabilitated by a consultant led interdisciplinary team(IDT).
The Band 5 Registered Nurse will be responsible for delivering and co-coordinating safe nursing care topatients with complex needs.
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 you've 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
Duties and responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:
* Working on the Ward as per the rotational shiftpattern.
* Having continuing responsibility for the assessment of careneeds and providing a range of clinical and management services.
* Acting as shift leader when required.
* Assisting in the training and clinical supervision of new orjunior members of the multidisciplinary team.
* Being involved in communications with outside agencies anddisciplines.
* Working within the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Codeof Professional Conduct and adhering to all NMC standards and Ministry ofDefence (MOD) policies and guidelines including Caldicott guidelines.
Please pay particular attention to the attached Terms of reference for a full list of responsibilities.
At application stage you will be assessed against the following:
* Provide CV details to include job history and previous skills and experience.
* Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the Terms of Reference. You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert.
* Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in your CV and that you have saved it, making sure that any reference to your personal details have been removed from your CV prior to submitting your application.
At interview you will be assessed against the following:
Behaviours
* Communicating and Influencing
* Leadership
* Working Together
* Making Effective Decisions
* Changing and Improving
* Developing Self and Others
And the following NHS Knowledge andSkills Framework Technical Skills:
* NHS Core NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
* NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
* NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
* NHS Core NHSC6 Equality and Diversity
The sift will be completed within 10 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.
Please copy and paste the following link to our YouTube channel for advice on preparing your best responses to behaviour based questions using the STAR technique and how to use your 250 word limit:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEpdNWKQSRI
When choosing your Behaviour/Technical Skills examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.
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.
To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Servicewill be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised)effective from the employment start date.
If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence 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.
Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.
There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformedpersonnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by ourpatients when based at home.
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came intoeffect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offersponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, wherea role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet thatcategory and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open toapplications from those who will require sponsorship under the pointsbased system.
Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, yourapplication will be rejected and any provisional offer of employmentwithdrawn.
This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, Making the Civil Service a Great Place to Work for Veterans -https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans
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 contactdbscivpers-sgdmsresourcing@mod.gov.uk.
The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.
The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.
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. 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.
Person Specification
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 provide your NMC 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.
Qualifications
* Professional/ clinical knowledge acquired through training to degree/diploma level.
* Registered Nurse Part 1 (ADULT) with live registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
* Minimum of 5 years registration with the NMC with evidence of up-to-date knowledge in Rehabilitation.
* Formal leadership and management training.
* Clinical Supervision Qualification.
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.
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.
Employer name
Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)
£29,970 to £36,483 a year(pro rata for part time) *pay award pending
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