Job Description

Details

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Reference number

413587

Salary

46,148 - 52,809
Per Annum (Pro-Rata for part time) - In addition to the advertised salary, this post attracts a locational allowance of 3000 (pro rata for part time).
GBP

Job grade

Other
Band 7

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

MOD - Strategic Command - Defence Medical Services (DMS)

Type of role

Health Professionals

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

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Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information

Location

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2nd Floor Medical Centre, HMNB Clyde, Faslane, Helensburgh, G84 8HL

About the job

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Job summary

At Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) we are an inclusive, dedicated organisation working to provide outstanding care to our entitled personnel.


Are you a Band 7 Psychological Therapist looking for an exciting role, working alongside the military, which offers numerous benefits and opportunities? If the answer is yes, then we are looking to appoint a professional and patient focused individual with a strong commitment to providing a high-quality service to work within our friendly and welcoming team at HMNB Clyde, Helensburgh.


The vacant post is Full time working 37.5 hours per week. Requests to work flexibly and/ 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!

Job description

To provide a timely and high-quality mental health service to all patients referred to the DCMH for assessment and treatment of mental health presentations. A wide variety of clinical work depending on qualifications working within your abilities but also stretching your capability. To act as a clinical resource and liaise with Medical Officers/General Practitioners (MO/GP) and offer advice to the chain of command on mental health matters, the administrative management of personnel with mental health difficulties and mental health promotion.
To work flexibly within 37.5 hours per week, with core service hours of 8am-5pm. The team will be operational across a network so you will need to be flexible in where and how care is delivered. To provide training in assessment and formulation and other CBT based practices to the team. Deputise for the team manager and hold delegated professional management of the team as required.

Person specification

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

The post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) setting to provide a specialised/occupational mental health service for all Service and entitled personnel within the Department of Community Mental Health (DCMH) and network as required. They will have extensive experience of delivering psychological therapy in a stepped care service. This includes the delivery of evidence based interventions in line with the NICE guidance for common mental health disorders. The post holder will require robust clinical assessment and therapy skills and an understanding of an occupational role and needs of individuals presenting to the service. Working with service personnel with complex common mental health disorder related problems, for which cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is demonstrated to be clinically effective, individually, in groups and via face to face and digital platforms while undertaking a programme of training in this role. To directly provide highly specialised psychological assessment and interventions to individuals and groups. Clinically supervise less experienced therapists. To be responsible for ensuring clinical outcome data is routinely entered and appropriately collated, and also lead in service evaluation, outcome measurement, audit and research projects to benefit service users.

For further details, please see the attached Terms of Reference.

Qualifications

Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist (OT) with post graduate training and accreditation in National Institute for Health Care and Excellence (NICE) recognised modality for common mental disorders (eg CBT)

Memberships

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.




Registered under a professional body such as Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)


Accredited to a governing body such as BABCP

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:


Assessment & Care Planning Assessment & Treatment Planning Interventions & Treatment People Management Learning & Development

Benefits

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Learning and development tailored to your role An environment with flexible working options A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity NHS Pension Access to onsite, state of the art gym Large onsite free car park Professional Registration fees reimbursed.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.
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.


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.


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.


The Selection at sift stage will be based on your CV application, once copied, and pasted onto your application. 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, max 3 pages


Experience:

Candidates will be required to 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 . You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert.

At

interview

you will be assessed against the following:


Behaviours Skills:

HWB2 - Assessment and care planning HWB6 - Assessment and Treatment Planning HWB7 - Interventions and Treatment NHS G6 - People and Management NHS G1 - Learning and Development

At interview a case study will be required. This will be provided to you 10 minutes before the interview.


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.


Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.


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.


To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.


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 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.


If in Scotland: Please be aware that MoD medical roles based in Scotland will be aligned with the Agenda for Change NHS Pay Scales and Bands for England and Wales.


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.


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 - GOV.UK


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-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.


Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.



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 .



See our vetting charter .
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) 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

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code 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 .
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.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

Apply and further information

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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

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Job contact :

Name : joanne howl Email : joanne.howl100@mod.gov.uk
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Recruitment team

* Email : DBSCivPers-SGDMResourcing@mod.gov.uk