Band 8a Psychological Wellbeing Services Manager

at  Ministry of Defence Defence Medical Services

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Being responsible for the development of care pathways inclusive of pre-admission and proposed discharge; supporting the care team in the management of individuals with complex care needs. Facilitating appropriate evidence-based therapeutic interventions, liaison, education, training, and mental health promotion in collaboration with the PWS multidisciplinary team (MDT). Making decisions to determine if patients require further intervention from the mental health teams (DCMH/PWS), including admissions to the place of safety or inpatient services. Promoting the involvement of patients and carers in the development of the care pathway and choices, ensuring that all patients are given a full explanation of their care pathway/treatment options and no decision is taken forward without their consent.
Recognising limits of competence and seek clinical supervision and/or advice as appropriate. Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for further details. Selection Process The selection at sift stage will be based upon your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the following National Health Service (NHS) Knowledge and Skills Framework: NHS Core- NHSC1- Communication NHS Core- NHSC2- Personal and People Development NHS Core-NHSC4- Service Improvement NHS Core-NHSC5- Quality G6-People Management Further Information: 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. 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. Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in your CV/application. 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.
Defence Medical Services - YouTube- Please note if you are viewing this on NHS Jobs, you may need to copy and paste the following link in to your browser: https://www.youtube.com/DMS_MilMed. In addition to the Defence Medical Services YouTube video, please watch An insight into the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Stanford Hall YouTube video. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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

Please refer the Job description for details