We believe in strong clinical leadership and take pride in looking after all our staff to enable them to deliver our vision of the future. Our key focus is to allow you to concentrate on supporting your patients and developing your clinical experience. Main duties of the role include but are not limited to: Providing primary and occupational Healthcare in line with General Medical Council (GMC) Standards. Mentoring of junior personnel, helping to ensure that their training needs, as defined in the Practice Development Plan, are met and that any shortfalls are identified and addressed. Maximising the levels of health, wellbeing, and employability of Service personnel to ensure the needs of the single Services are met. Undertaking mandatory medical examinations and providing appropriate occupational healthcare and advice, and all supporting administrative duties. Providing appropriate preventative medical advice to both individuals and Chain of Command. Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and Person Specification. Selection Process The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV/ application form. At interview, you will be tested against the following Civil Service behaviours: Leadership Communicating and Influencing Making Effective Decisions Changing and Improving Managing a Quality Service Delivering at Pace The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held a on a date to be confirmed. There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview. Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form. To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application. Additional Information Please see the link to our YouTube channel for advice preparing your best responses with some hints and tips on answering behaviour-based questions.Hints and tips such as: Your behaviours can be based on situations from work, volunteering, or home; match your situation to the behaviour requested and how to use your 250-word limit: 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. Requests to work flexibly will be considered, taking into account business needs. Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check. 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. 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. 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 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. There is no requirement to redeploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when they are based at home. 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 ofall 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. 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 dbscivperssgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.