Band 6 Practice Nurse

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services); Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A government healthcare organisation in Wolverhampton is seeking a dynamic Band 6 Practice Nurse to provide evidence-based care in a multidisciplinary environment. The role involves managing chronic illnesses and delivering high-quality patient care. Applicants must have a current NMC registration and relevant postgraduate qualifications. The position offers a competitive salary between £37,338 and £44,962 per year pro-rata and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Learning and development tailored to your role

Access to a gym

Free on-site parking

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse on Part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Register.
• Experience of leading health and well-being clinics.
• Minimum of 3 years post registration experience in Primary Healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality, person-centred care.
• Manage chronic illnesses such as Asthma and Diabetes.
• Deliver treatment and advice according to clinical guidelines.

Skills

Communication skills

Nursing assessment

Chronic disease management

Teamwork

Education

Postgraduate degree/diploma in primary healthcare

Basic Life Support qualification

Tools

NHS IT systems

Job description

Overview

Go back Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

Band 6 Practice Nurse

The closing date is 29 September 2025

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

We are seeking to recruit a dynamic, organised and enthusiastic Band 6 Practice Nurse to join our friendly, vibrant and fast paced organisation here at Regional Medical Facility, RAF Cosford.

This role is offered at 37.5 hours per week. 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.

Applicants must hold a current car driving licence to attend Regional Meetings/provide peer support/attend regional training events etc.

Could this be the role for you? If so, we\'d love to hear from you.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An inclusive working environment
• Access to a gym
• Cafe, barbers and convenience store
• Free on site parking
• Mess dining facilities

Main duties of the job

Thepost holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary primaryhealthcare teamdelivering primary healthcare nursing includingelements of occupationalhealth.

The role will involve working alongside theBand 6 (B6) Practice Nurse and Senior Medical Officer within the medicalfacility (MF) and will be a focal point for Primary Health Care nursing issues within area of practice.

You must be able to work unsupervised andprovide nursing care to the MF population at risk.

Thepost holder will hold anindividual case load, and through consultation identify, assess, and diagnosepatients with complex health needs, minor injuries, minor illnesses, andspecific diseases withintheir level of competence.

You will provide specialist high-qualityperson-centred care whichalways considers peoples safety, privacy and dignityusing advanced clinical knowledge that is evidence based.

You will be responsible for the delivery of appropriate treatment, screening, and advice to patients within their professional competence and inaccordance with Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) clinical guidelines andprotocols.

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

The duties and responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:

• Providing safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, and individualised patient care.
• Undertaking Undertake preventative health programmes e.g., travel and vaccination clinics, new patients screening, audiometry.
• Managing the care of patients with chronic illnesses e.g., Asthma, Diabetes, Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) and hypertension ensuring continued maintenance of the Chronic Disease Register.
• Planning, managing and completing episodes of care, working in partnership with others and delegating and referring as appropriate to optimise health outcomes and resources use, as well as providing direct support to patients and clients.
• Organising complex activities or programmes for patients, drawing on an appropriate range of multi-disciplinary and interprofessional resources within the MF and across the wider military services to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care.
• Interpreting and analysing clinical and non-clinical facts to form accurate diagnosis, prognoses for a wide range of conditions, to recommend/deliver the best course of intervention including the development of comprehensive packages of care.
• Continually evaluate, reflect upon and audit own practice and that of others at individual and systems level, selecting and applying valid and reliable approaches and methods which are appropriate to needs and context, and acting on the findings.

Please review the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role.

Selection Process Details

The sift will be completed within 10 working days of the vacancy closing date.

At application stage you will be assessed against the following:

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.

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/

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 Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
• NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB1 Promotion of Health & Wellbeing
• NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK2 Information Collection & Analysis

Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEpdNWKQSRI

Further Information

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.

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.

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 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 (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.

Person Specification

Registration

• Registered Nurse on Part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Register.
• Please provide your membership registration number.
• You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application.
• Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.

Qualifications

• Professional and specialist knowledge in primary healthcare acquired through post graduate degree/diploma or actively working towards this OR can demonstrate equivalent level of competence and experience.
• Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training.
• Must be in date for Basic Life Support (BLS) Anaphylaxis, Automated External Defibrillation (AED) Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Safeguarding Level 3 (Children and Adult depending on population at risk) or willingness to undertake training.
• Quality improvement methodology or willingness to undertake training
• Registered non-medical prescriber or willingness to undertake training.

Behaviour 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.

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.

Experience

• Experienced and competent in history taking and physical assessment and the triage & treatment of minor injury/illness, immunisation, venepuncture, ear care, audiology, travel medicine, wound care, cervical screening;
• Experience of leading and promoting health and well-being clinics i.e., smoking cessation, weight management, alcohol misuse, sexual health.
• Experience of providing care to patients with chronic illnesses e.g., Asthma, Family Planning, Diabetes, Chronic Heart Disease (CHD) and hypertension ensuring continued maintenance of the Chronic Disease Register (dependant on population at risk).
• To be proficient in relevant IT systems subject to appropriate training being provided.
• Minimum of 3 years post registration experience working within Primary Healthcare.

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.

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

£37,338 to £44,962 a yearPro Rata. *Pay award pending