Band 6 Practice Nurse Primary Healthcare (Overseas - Germany)

NHS; Lichfield; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A national healthcare organization is seeking a Band 6 Practice Nurse in Sennelager, Germany. This full-time position involves delivering primary healthcare services and leading health initiatives. The successful candidate will need strong clinical skills and the ability to work independently within a multidisciplinary team. The role offers a competitive salary of £37,338 to £44,962 per annum and includes relocation expenses.

Benefits

Free Parking

Access to gym

Cost of Living Allowance

Full relocation expenses

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of nursing experience in a primary healthcare setting.
• Demonstrated competency in clinical assessment and patient care.
• Certified in Basic Life Support and Anaphylaxis.

Responsibilities

• Deliver comprehensive primary healthcare services at the medical facility.
• Conduct assessments, diagnose patients, and implement treatment plans.
• Provide clinical leadership and mentor junior staff.

Skills

History taking and physical assessment

Triage and treatment of minor injuries/illnesses

Immunisation

Wound care

Chronic disease management

Education

Postgraduate degree or diploma in primary healthcare

Registered Nurse with NMC

Job description

Overview

Go back Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services) Band 6 Practice Nurse Primary Healthcare (Overseas - Germany)

The closing date is 24 September 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 team working alongside the military?

We are looking for a dedicated, organised and passionate Band 6 Practice Nurse to join our team at Sennelager Medical Centre in Sennelager, Germany.

This is a full time role consisting of 37.5 hours per week. The minimum tour length is 3 years with the potential to extend up to 5 years.

• An inclusive working environment
• Free Parking
• Access to gym
• Local Amenities
• Cost of Living Allowance (COLA)
• Full relocation expenses to the successful candidate

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary primary healthcare team delivering primary healthcare nursing including elements of occupational health, working with the Senior Nursing Officer (SNO) or Senior Medical Officer within the medical facility (MF) and will be a focal point for Primary Health Care nursing issues within area of practice.

You will be able to work unsupervised and provide nursing care to the MF population at risk, holding an individual caseload, and through consultation identify, assess and diagnose patients with complex health needs, minor injuries, minor illnesses and specific diseases within their level of competence.

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

Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:

• Providing specialist 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.
• 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.
• Providing expert clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical analysis, and decision-making skills.
• Providing safe, evidence-based, efficient, and individualised patient care.
• Undertaking preventative health programmes such as travel and vaccination clinics, new patients screening, audiometry.
• Undertaking technical nursing treatments and procedures for patients complex, specialist healthcare needs (e.g., wound care, sutures removal, Electrocardiograms (ECGs), Cytology, Audiometry, Ear Care).
• Providing assistance to the Senior Medical Officer performing minor surgery.
• Providing specialist advice and support to patients, their families and other healthcare professionals following assessment, diagnosis and through treatment.

Please see the Job description and Person specification for full details.

Selection Process

The sift will be completed within 10 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

At application stage you will be assessed again 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 Health & Wellbeing HWB1 Promotion of Health & Wellbeing
• HWB3 Protection of Health & Wellbeing
• NHS IK1 Information Processing
• NHS G6 People Management

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

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, MMR and Varicella. 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.

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.

This post also attracts COLA (Cost of Living Allowance). The post offers full relocation expenses to the successful candidate.

Assessment of support needs for accompanied assignments overseas information can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/assessment-of-support-needs-for-accompanied-assignments-overseas

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.

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].

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 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.

For details on our complaints procedure, please see attached Important Information document.

Person Specification

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, CHD and hypertension ensuring continued maintenance of the Chronic Disease Register (dependant on population at risk)
• Experience of having provided mentorship and/or coaching to other staff
• Evidenced of continuous professional development and the practical application of new skills to the work place.

Provide your 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

Qualifications

• Professional and specialist knowledge in primary healthcare acquired through post graduate degree/diploma or actively working towards this and can demonstrate equivalent level of competence and experience in clinical assessment and diagnosis.
• 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)
• Quality improvement methodology or willingness to undertake training.
• Safeguarding Level 3 (Children and Adult depending on population at risk) 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.

Registrations and Memberships

• Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
• Registered Nurse on Part 1 of the 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.

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 year per annum; pro-rata; pay award pending