Band 7 Clinical Lead Reserves Healthcare

Band 7 Clinical Lead Reserves Healthcare The closing date is 03 March 2026.

Welcome to Defence Healthcare Recovery Group (DHRG), we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.

We are looking to recruit a dynamic, organised and enthusiastic Occupational Health Clinician to join our encouraging and welcoming Headquarters team based at Defence Medical Services (DMS) Whittington, Lichfield.

Our vibrant and fast paced organisation seeks to sustain and improve the operational efficiency of the UK's Reserve Forces by supporting the delivery of a range of occupationally focussed healthcare services. We are looking for an innovative leader to support both delivery and development of the services we provide.

The vacant post is full time. This role is peripatetic and cannot be delivered using public transport. Due to this a full UK driving licence is required for this position.

Could this be the role for you?

If so, we'd love to hear from you!

• Access to learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• Professional registration fees re imbursed

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.

Main duties of the job The post holder will provide leadership, line management and professional supervision to the nursing team delivering occupationally focused primary healthcare to United Kingdom (UK) Reserve Forces personnel. Supplying direction and support to the refinement of the nursing role with the Reserve Forces Practice.

As a qualified occupational health clinician, the successful applicant will also act as a subject matter expert in the delivery of occupationally focused primary healthcare to UK Reserve Forces personnel to the whole multidisciplinary team.

To aid the planning, development, and delivery of services including occupational medicine assessments, health surveillance and force health protection measures.

This includes liaising with single and joint service working groups and forums.

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 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 organization. Clearly communicate Occupational Health (OH) guidance to employers both verbally and in written/electronic formats, in accordance with current MOD regulations and best practice.
• Accurately record patient consultations and, where required, produce specialist reports in accordance with professional and organisational guidance.
• 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 practice 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 JobDescription 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 10 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 HWB7 Interventions & Treatment
• NHS General NHS G6 People Management

The interview may consist of a mix of direct questions and clinical situation based scenarios.

You will also be required to provide a presentation or vignette. Details will be provided prior to interview to successful candidates.

Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed. There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

Further Information Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our attached candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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