Navy Command Nurse 2 Survival and Thermal Medicine - NHS Analogue Band 5

At Navy Command, we lead, support, and sustain the Royal Navy across every theatre of operations. We coordinate the people, platforms, and missions that keep the Fleet ready for today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. Together, we uphold centuries of naval tradition while driving innovation that ensures the Royal Navy’s readiness to protect our nation and secure our future.

You'll be based at the Institute of Naval Medicine (INM), the Royal Navy’s centre of excellence for occupational health. It provides world-class advice, training, and research to optimise operational capability in every environment. INM combines scientific expertise with practical support, ensuring personnel remain healthy, safe, and effective wherever they serve.

This position is advertised at 37.5 hours per week.

The Survival and Thermal Medicine Department are looking for a dynamic, organised and efficient Band 5 healthcare professional to work within the STM team delivering specialist testing in the Exertional Heat Illness, Rhabdomyolysis, Cold Injury and Fitness Anthropometry clinics.

The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team comprising of doctors, nurses and scientists, delivering basic nursing care to patients arriving for their appointments as well as routine organisation of the clinic. The post holder will work closely with the departmental Lead Nurse, have opportunity to support research trials and studies ensuring highly ethical research standards, and take part in delivering training and teaching to both medical and non-medical personnel.

What you'll be doing

• Pre-assessment medicals comprising of basic observations and ECG
• Supporting patients through assessment
• Phlebotomy
• Clinical stock rotation and ordering
• Supporting research projects

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Open to UK nationals only.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

As part of Defence Reform, Navy Command continues to review and evolve its Target Operating Model to support more agile ways of working. In this context, the role and responsibilities of this role may develop over time to reflect changing business priorities and opportunities.

At application stage, candidates will be assessed against CV, as well as the following Civil Service Behaviours:

• Working together
• Making effective decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

At interview you will be assessed against the following Nursing and Midwifery Council Standards for Competence for registered nurses (Adult)

• Professional Values
• Leadership, Management and Team working
• Nursing Practice and Decision Making
• Communication and Interpersonal Skills

Standards for competence for registered nurses

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

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. The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and 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 requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigation’s can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

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