Band 3 Healthcare Assistant
Ministry of Defence
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Job summary
Here at Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.
Defence Primary Health Care (DPHC) are looking for a dynamic, organised, and efficient Band 3 Healthcare Assistant who will be working within our team at Northern Ireland Combined Practice Lisburn Medical Centre, The Thiepval Barrack.
This position offers 37.5 hours per week.
Does this sound like the role for you? If so, we would love to hear from you!
Job description
The successful candidate will provide an important service for patients (personnel and their dependants), carrying out procedures and supporting patients to live healthier lives. This role supports the strategy and mission statement for Defence Primary Health Care (DPHC) to ensure optimum health and well-being for patients and maximum deployability.
An important part of the service is clinical care including taking blood samples to be sent laboratory for testing, wound care, and health promotion. The Healthcare Assistant also supports the delivery of the service by providing some administrative support, such as ordering clinical supplies.
They will demonstrate safe care for patients within the medical facility (MF). They will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures.
The healthcare Assistant (HCA) will be expected to provide cross-cover when required at other MF locations (Aldergrove and Holywood) as part of the NI Combined Practice.
Person specification
Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:
- Delivering a high standard of patient care as delegated by a registered practitioner, working within own competence and keeping up to date with relevant training highlighting any training needs or competency requirements to maintain role.
- Supporting resupply administration functions within practice, maintaining medical stores, ordering stock and resupplying clinical areas. Ensuring practice equipment competency’s and raise issues to the Practice Manager.
- Providing safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, and individualised patient care as delegated prioritising own workload and ensuring effective time management strategies are embedded in own practice.
- Carrying out patient health checks, including health screening and measurements, and recording previous medical history, family history and current medications.
- Maintaining accurate and contemporaneous records to relevant professional standards/guidelines.
Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and Person Specification, which outlines the role requirements in further details.
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.
To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the Technical Skill and Behaviours shown in the Technical Skill and Behaviours sections below.
Qualifications
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- NHS Core – NHSC1 – Communication
- NHS Core – NHSC5 – Quality
- NHS Health & Wellbeing – HWB2 – Assessment & Care Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing – HWB5 – Provision of Care
Benefits
- NHS pension
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- Free Parking
- Access to Gym
- Dining Facilities
- Shop
- Reimbursement of Professional Fees, £330 towards CPD per training year
- Eligibility for Blue Light / Defence Discount Card
Things you need to know
Selection process details
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.
The sift will be completed within 5 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.
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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.
Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.
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.
We encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply. 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. 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 (www.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-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.
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 : Mark Balsdon
- Email : Mark.Balsdon461@mod.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : DBSCivPers-SGDMResourcing@mod.gov.uk
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