Band 6 Primary Care Nurse

Integrated Care System; England; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An esteemed healthcare organization in the UK is looking for a Band 6 Primary Care Nurse to deliver top-quality medical services at Bovington Medical Centre. The successful candidate will enjoy flexible working conditions in a dynamic environment, with opportunities for professional development and mentorship.

Benefits

Learning and development tailored to your role

Inclusive working environment

Access to gym

Qualifications

• Registered with NMC with ongoing professional development.
• Experience in history taking and physical assessments.
• Knowledge in immunisation, travel medicine, and minor injury treatment.

Responsibilities

• Deliver comprehensive patient care within a multidisciplinary team.
• Supervise and support junior staff and manage clinical tasks.
• Conduct preventative health programs as per NHS and MOD guidelines.

Skills

Communication

Clinical assessment

Teamwork

Education

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) unrestricted registration

Postgraduate degree/diploma in primary healthcare

Job description

Go back Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

Band 6 Primary Care Nurse

The closing date is 07 August 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 full time dynamic, organised and enthusiastic Band 6 Primary Care Nurse to join our friendly, vibrant and fast paced organisation here at Bovington Medical Centre, Bovington Camp, Dorset.

This position offers 37.5 hours per week and requests to work flexibly will be considered, in the case of a job share this will need to make up the full time hours taking into account the business needs.

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

Main duties of the job

The Primary Care Nurse (Band 6) will work as part of a multi-disciplinary primary healthcare team delivering general medical services and elements of occupational health to military personnel in the population at risk. They require specialist knowledge in primary healthcare and can demonstrate a high level of competence and experience in clinical assessment and diagnosis.

Youwill work unsupervised and is responsible for the delivery of appropriate assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care needs, medical screening and giving advice to patients within their professional competence in addition to supervising and supporting junior members of the team.

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

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

• Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, and individualised patient care at all times.
• Undertake preventative health programmes in line with the National Health Service (NHS) Screening programmes and Ministry of Defence (MOD) deployment guidance e.g. travel and vaccination clinics, new patients screening, audiometry, and NHS Health Checks.
• Perform reviews of patients with chronic illnesses e.g. Asthma, Diabetes, Coronary heart disease and hypertension.
• Perform and supervise tasks required for the general running and administration of the Treatment Room, whilst matching care provision to the needs of the Service. To include clinical case trend monitoring, laboratory links co-ordination, clinical stock rotation and co-ordination and supervision of any trainee Medics as applicable.

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

Selection Process Details

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.

At interview you will be assessed against the following:

NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework

• NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
• NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
• NHS Core NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
• NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
• NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB1 Promotion of Health & Wellbeing
• NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment
• NHS General NHS G6 People Management

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. More details can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

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

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

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.

Registration

• Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) unrestricted registration.
• 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.
• 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; willingness to undertake specific training to fulfil competency for role and DPHC/MOD training as required.
• In date Basic Life Support (BLS), Anaphylaxis, Automated External Defibrillation (AED), Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), Safeguarding Level 3 (Children and Adult); willingness to fulfil training updates as required.
• Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training.
• Supporting Learning and Assessing with experience providing mentorship and/or coaching to other staff.
• To be proficient in relevant IT systems subject to appropriate training being provided.
• Registered non-medical prescriber or willingness to undertake training.

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.

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

£37,338 to £44,962 a year(pro rata for part time) *Pay award pending