Band 3 Healthcare Assistant (HCA)

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services); Tidworth; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 26,000; Part time

Job summary

A national defence organization seeks a part-time Band 3 Healthcare Assistant in Tidworth. The role involves providing high-quality primary healthcare to personnel and supporting a multidisciplinary team. Applicants should have NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent. Training will be provided. This position offers a supportive environment with various benefits, including free parking and an on-site gym.

Benefits

Access to learning and development

Free parking

On-site Gym

Qualifications

• National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ) level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Providing high-quality person-centred primary care respecting safety, privacy, and dignity.
• Being responsible for delivering appropriate treatment and advice to patients.
• Undertaking preventative health programmes and technical nursing treatments.

Job description

Overview

Go back Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

Band 3 Healthcare Assistant (HCA)

The closing date is 01 October 2025

Here at Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.

Are you a motivated individual who strives to deliver excellent healthcare?

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to join a large organisation working as part of a professional encouraging team?

Do you want to be part of a great organisation which has great additional benefits? Look no further!

Defence Primary Health Care (DPHC) Central and Wessex region are looking for a dynamic, organised, and efficient Band 3 Healthcare Assistant who will be working within our Primary Health Care team at Tidworth Group Medical Centre.

The vacant post is part time working 22.5 hours per week.

Many of our practices are networked and linked to provide support to each other. On occasion within your planned working schedule, you may be requested to work at the linked practice site. In these situations, travel time and cost will be allowed for.

Benefits

• Access to learning and development tailored to your role
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• Free parking
• On-site Gym

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

As the successful candidate, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary primary healthcare team, supporting the delivery of primary healthcare nursing including elements of occupational health.

Due to the nature of the business, it would be beneficial if you have prior experience of primary care. Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information.

We are searching for someone who is able to work unsupervised, providing high-quality nursing care to the medical facility population at risk holding an individual caseload, and through consultation identify, assess, and manage the care of patients with complex health needs, minor injuries, minor illnesses, and specific diseases within their level of competence.

Training and preceptorship will be provided to enable you to develop in your role.

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 youve 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

As the successful candidate your duties include but are not limited to:

• Providing high-quality person-centred primary care which always considers peoples safety, privacy and dignity using high-quality clinical knowledge that is evidence based, with use of core healthcare guidelines as delegated by a registered practitioner.
• Being responsible for the delivery of appropriate treatment, screening, and advice to patients within their professional competence and in accordance with (DPHC) clinical guidelines and protocols.
• Undertaking and assisting with preventative health programmes such as travel and vaccination clinics, new patients screening, audiometry, 24hr Blood Pressure monitoring and weight management.
• Undertaking technical nursing treatments and procedures for patients with complex/specialist healthcare needs (e.g., wound care, sutures removal, Electrocardiograms (ECGs), Audiometry).
• Providing assistance to the Senior Medical Officer performing minor surgery.
• Providing safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, and individualised patient care as delegated, prioritising own workload, and ensuring effective time management strategies are embedded in own practice.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for additional job duties and responsibilities.

Selection process

At application stage you will be assessed against the following:

• 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.

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 candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/artificial-intelligence-and-recruitment/

Interview criteria

At interview you will be assessed against the following:

• NHS Core - NHSC1 - Communication Level 2
• NHS Core - NHSC2 - Personal & People Development Level 2
• NHS Core - NHSC5 - Quality Level 2
• NHS Health & Wellbeing - HWB1 - Promotion of Health and Wellbeing Level 1
• NHS Health & Wellbeing - HWB2 - Assessment & Care Planning Level 1
• NHS Health & Wellbeing - HWB5 - Provision of Care, to meet Health and Wellbeing needs Level 1

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

Further information relating to the NHS KSF Competencies and Levels can be found here:https://www.msg.scot.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/KSF-Handbook.pdf

The sift will be completed within 10 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.

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

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.

To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

This vacancy does not offer relocation assistance.

As a result of changes to UK immigration rules, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system where a role is deemed 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 require sponsorship.

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 [e-mail].

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 mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

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.

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 will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment.

Person Specification

Behavior Statement

• Have you been dismissed for gross misconduct relating to bullying, harassment, discrimination or victimisation from any role in the past five years, or resigned or otherwise left a role but would have been dismissed for such gross misconduct because of an adverse decision, had you continued in that employment?
• Please respond with Yes or No as appropriate.

Qualifications

• National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ) level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent experience.

Provide a CV

• Please copy and paste your full CV as your response to this question; you will not be able to upload your CV as an attachment.
• Please ensure to refer to the essential criteria where applicable as your application may be rejected should insufficient information to shortlist be included.
• Please use double spacing where possible.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

£24,071 to £25,674 a year Pro-rata. Pay award pending.