Capability Assistant Head
Ministry of Defence
Apply before 11:55 pm on Wednesday 25th September 2024
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Job summary
To lead on the development and delivery capability strategies and solutions that support Ministry of Defence Police to meet its corporate and departmental objectives.To work closely with HR colleagues to ensure the provision of services to the organisation.
To oversee capability, within the MDP, including responsibility for management of attendance, capability, and performance processes, appeals and complex cases, temporary redeployments and associated support. Oversight of administration of Fit to Work medicals and strategic Occupational Health, including contract oversight and medical standards. Provision of all capability related strategic reporting for performance boards and committees.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
Job description
Key Accountability:
- Oversight of the Performance & Attendance Cell managing attendance, capability and performance complex cases, including Regulations 2020, policy/guidance and appeals.
- Act as HR Professional panel member for Stage 3 meetings as required.
- Responsibility for strategic reporting on PAC and Occupational Health issues, including MDP Board, COO Board and Resource Board.
- Responsibility for internal redeployment of non-capable officers requiring work, and redeployments within the wider Civil Service as appropriate.
- Oversight of MDP Occupational Health team and the facilitation and administration of fit to work medicals.
- Lead for Occupational Health contract issues.
- Strategic lead for Employment Tribunals.
- MDP Grievances point of contact, including decision making, policy/process review and engagement.
Corporate Accountability:
- Leading by example as a role model for MOD/MDP’s values and professional standards.
- Driving the delivery of business and corporate plans for your own areas of responsibility.
- Initiating continuous improvement in your own areas of responsibility.
- Taking a proactive approach to risk management, ensuring any risks and issues identified are addressed and reported and, where appropriate, escalated.
- Managing individuals or teams through line management and/or matrix management arrangements as required, ensuring under performance is managed and adequate resourcing is planned to meet objectives.
- Managing delegated resources (e.g. budgets, equipment and contracts) as appropriate, to ensure value for money.
- Being fully aware of and actively complying with College of Policiing (COP) policies and procedures relevant to your own responsibilities and to corporate policies and procedures including equality, sustainability and the environment, health and safety and data protection.
- Performing any other reasonable duties as directed by line management.
Person specification
Experience
Criteria | Essential (E) or Desirable (D) |
Previous experience of managing employee capability work strands. | E |
Previous experience of working with 3rd party suppliers for the delivery of fit2work health provisions. | D |
Experience of leading multi-disciplinary work to achieve objectives. | E |
Experience of delivering priority work within strict timelines. | E |
Skills and Abilities
Criteria | Essential (E) or Desirable (D) |
Ability to build effective relationships with line managers and senior leaders | E |
Ability to design and develop strategic interventions Strategy, utilising ,strong analytical skills. | E |
Excellent written and oral communication skills, and the ability to communicate complex and technical information with clarity. | E |
Ability to communicate to a wide range of audiences | E |
Able to provide effective line management and / or project team management to achieve objectives | E |
Strong ability to work flexibly, managing changing and competing priorities | E |
Able to systematically analyse information to produce clear recommendations that can be understood by a non-technical audience | E |
Able to use evidence and judgement to solve problems, test options and create new approaches | D |
Ability to identify, analyse and take action to effectively manage risk, in line with MOD/MDP risk framework. | E |
Able to challenge and influence others, to contribute professional and technical expertise to effective decision making | E |
Able to build effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels, to work collaboratively to achieve objectives | E |
Ability to understand MOD/MDP strategic context and shape work to contribute to the organisation's priorities. | D |
Able to communicate strategic priorities to others and enable them understand their contribution to those priorities | E |
Able to use project management disciplines to lead or contribute to project work. | D |
Knowledge Including Qualifications
Criteria | Essential (E) or Desirable (D) |
Extensive knowledge and understanding of employment law and HR best practice in relation to Employee Health Wellbeing and Capability. | E |
Knowledge and understanding of the Civil Service policies commensurate with the role | D |
Good understanding of equality and diversity | E |
CIPD qualification | D |
Understanding of the MOD and College of Policing system and the role and approaches to employee capability activities as appropriate, for example firearms training, regulations etc... | D |
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- Professional and personal development
- flexitime scheme
- alternative working patterns
- 25 days' paid leave rising (One day per year) to 30 days after 5 years service.
- enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Highly competitive pension scheme
- More details regarding the full benefits offered can be found here:
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.
The post does not offer relocation expenses.
External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.
Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be 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.
Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.
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 however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. 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.
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Selection process details
Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability. (750 Words)
At application candidates will be assessed against the following Behaviours:-
- Seeing the bigger picture
- Making effective decisions
At interview candidates will be assessed on:-
- Managing A Quality Service
- Communicating & Influencing
- Leadership
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-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk .
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.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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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).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Ann Fletton - MDP Hd HR People Team
- Email : ann.fletton940@mod.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk
Further information
info@csc.gov.uk.
