Band 7 Clinical Lead Reserves Healthcare

Posting date:	09 May 2025
Salary:	£46,148.00 to £52,809.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£46148.00 - £52809.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	18 May 2025
Location:	Lichfield, WS14 9PY
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	K0003-25-0222

Summary

Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to: Hold a high level of communication skills and contribute to the wider development of others by presenting at conferences and publication of articles in the professional press. Demonstrate innovative and motivational leadership, acting as a role model and developing teamwork within the organisation. Clearly communicate Occupational Health (OH) guidance to employers both verbally and in written/electronic formats, in accordance with current MOD regulations and best practice. Provide subject matter expertise to the multidisciplinary team with regard to the planning and delivery of occupationally focused healthcare to the Reserve forces. Identify knowledge and skill gaps and seek clinical supervision and / or advice as appropriate to enhance learning and development. Participate and lead in healthcare governance activities that improve the quality of healthcare and the effectiveness of their own and others practice. Monitoring the effectiveness of all clinical practices through the quality assurance strategies, such as the use of audit and peer review. Encourage and evaluate feedback from stakeholders (e.g. service personnel, Chain of Command (CoC) or other clinicians) to enhance service delivery. Ensure patient safety and confidentiality is maintained and meets United Kingdom Strategic Command (UK Strat Com) and Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) policy and guidance. Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and Person Specification, which outlines the role requirements in further details. Selection Process At application stage you will be assessed against your CV. Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form. Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the Job Description. You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert. To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application. The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. At interview you will be assessed against the following NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework: NHS Core NHSC1 Communication NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 Assessment & Care Planning NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment NHS General NHS G6 People Management Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed. There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview. Further Information 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. 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. 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. 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 contact dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcing@mod.gov.uk. 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. 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. Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate. 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. For information on our complaints procedure, please see attached Important Information document.