Defence Business Services (DBS)- Medical Adviser

UK Ministry of Defence; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 76,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service Pension

Pension contributions ~28%

Job summary

UK Ministry of Defence is advertising a Grade 6 Medical Adviser within the Defence Business Services (DBS) - AFVS team. The role involves providing verbal and written medical advice and statutory certificates for War Pension Scheme and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, with some homeworking and office-based work.

Candidates must hold a UK medical licence with GMC registration and current re-validation. The role emphasises CPD and meeting performance indicators within a Defence environment.

Qualifications

• Must hold a valid licence to practise medicine in the UK and GMC registration.
• Current re-validation certificate is required.
• Experience providing medical advice and certificates within a veterans/armed forces context is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate verbal and written medical advice and statutory certificates for the War Pension Scheme and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme.
• No prior knowledge of the schemes is required; support interpretation of medical evidence for decisions.
• Maintain up-to-date medical knowledge and comply with performance indicators and business pressures.

Skills

GMC registration

Medical licence

IT literacy (Outlook/Excel/Word)

Education

Level 5 Medical qualification

Job description

Main area Defence Business Services (DBS)- Medical Adviser Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37 hours per week (Part time positions are available.)

Employer Ministry of Defence - MOD Employer type Public (Non NHS) Town Tomlinson House, Norcross, Blackpool, Lancashire. and North West and Kentigern House, Glasgow, Scotland Salary £83,970 per annum (pro rata) with generous employer pension contributions of approx. 27% depending on your salary. A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%. Closing 16/11/2026 23:59

Defence Business Services (DBS)- Medical Adviser

What do the Armed Forces & Veterans Services (AFVS) Team do?

AFVS work with delivery partners to provide a range of trusted and efficient services to both service personnel and Veterans' communities. For current serving members of the Armed Forces this includes:

Pay, Pensions & Allowances;

The Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre; and,

The MOD Medals Office.

For service Veterans and their dependants we provide support by administering the Armed Forces Pension Schemes, compensation payments for those injured or bereaved through service, and providing a package of welfare for Veterans. We also provide information and support to service leavers and their families as they leave the Armed Forces and transition to civilian life.

We also manage the Ilford Park nursing home for Polish Veterans and their families.

The positions are advertised at 37 hour per week full time. Part time positions are available.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Grade 6 medical advisor to work for AFVS. The purpose of this role is to provide accurate verbal and written medical advice and statutory certification in respect of claims, reviews and appeals for the War Pension Scheme and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme. No prior knowledge of the compensation scheme/s is required.

The role can be office based with some homeworking and requires no clinical contact with those applying for the schemes. The successful candidate will annually undertake continuous professional development activity to keep knowledge in medicine and legislation up to date. They will also support operational delivery by demonstrating an understanding of key performance indicators and business pressures.

The compensation schemes are no-fault and, for both schemes, Medical Advisers give case-specific, evidence-based advice and certificates on causation and assessment and provide reasons for decisions.

DBS Medical Advisers are not involved in the clinical diagnosis, care or treatment of War Pension or Armed Forces Compensation Scheme claimants. The Medical Adviser’s role is to provide advice and guidance based upon pre-existing medical evidence which is used to determine the level of disablement in accordance with the relevant scheme rules.

Person specification

The chosen candidate will have highly effective written and oral communications with an ability to develop effective rapport with colleagues at all levels. They should have a broad-based medical knowledge.

They will have a good level of IT skills to include using e-mail, Excel and Word.

Licences

A valid licence to practise medicine in the UK, registration with GMC and current re-validation certificate

Qualifications

Level 5 Medical qualification- must be authorised to practise medicine.

Memberships

Must be registered with the GMC and hold a full unrestricted licence to practise medicine

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

At application stage you will be assessed against the following:

Experience-

Personal Statement (maximum 1,000 words) – all elements of required person specifications as they applied to the role advertised, should be reflected in the personal statement.

CV and job history; full details of education, qualifications and previous experience and skills.

At interview you will be assessed against the above PLUS the following;

Behaviours-

Changing and Improving

Managing a Quality Service

Seeing the Big Picture

In the rare case where individuals have exact matching scores, the order of merit will be determined based on the behaviour/technical ability scores at interview in the following order:

Changing and Improving

Managing a Quality Service

Seeing the Big Picture

If candidate scores are still exact, the merit order will then be determined on the sift score in the below order of priority:

• CV
• Personal Statement

We want to offer opportunities to all who are successful at interview for our roles, but this is not always possible, so we will hold candidates on an active reserve list for 12 months. There may be opportunities in the future for roles to be offered to candidates placed on the reserve list on a Fixed Term Appointment basis.

Application sifting and interviews will likely be conducted in Nov/Dec.Interviews will be held via MS Teams. If you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: [e-mail]

A minimum of 2 full working days’ notice will be provided for interviews. We endeavour to adhere to these dates, but these are subject to change around business needs.

For those who wish to find out more about these roles, or indeed DBS and the AFVS team, a short Candidate Information Session will be scheduled on Wednesday 28th October at 13:00pm.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Name Dr Judith Power Email address [e-mail]

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