Overview

Do you have excellent communication and organisational skills?

Are you a team worker with the ability to use your own initiative? If the answer is yes, then we are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated HEO Environmental Protection and Climate Change and Sustainability Coordinator to join our encouraging and welcoming team of dedicated military and civilian healthcare professionals and administrative staff working within DMS Whittington.

The vacant post is a full-time position working 37 hours per week. Part-time candidates will be considered but due to service delivery requirements it must be on a job share basis as full-time hours need to be covered.

Does this sound like the role for you? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Strategic Command Transformation

Strategic Command is going through a significant transformation programme which aims to improve the way the Command conducts its business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence of this, all posts within Strategic Command Headquarters and in time the wider organisation, are/will be subject to review and potential changes as we continuously improve across the period of the transformation programme.

These changes may be minor or could be more substantive and will generate new opportunities. Throughout, the Command’s transformation programme is committed to following the MOD’s framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places an emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Command’s personnel and Trade Unions.

Job Description

To act as the Central Focal Point within the Headquarters Defence Medical Services High Level Budget (HQ DMS HLB) for providing competent advice and guidance to senior managers on safety, health environmental protection and for reporting to the Board on Health Safety & Environmental Protection (HS&EP) performance.

Person Specification

Main details of the role include but are not limited to:

  • Review and update the HQ DMS Environmental Protection (EP) guidance in line with Ministry of Defence (MOD) and United Kingdom Strategic Command (UKStratCom) policy, including Acquisition Safety Policy within the High Level Budget (HLB).

  • Responsible for monitoring and escalating impending EP risks to HLB lead before becoming issues where possible.

  • Responsible for creating and maintaining the HLB Environmental Management System (EMS) by seeking out and confirming appropriate focal points for all stakeholders that operate on each Base Level Budget (BLB site). They must also support BLB that conduct a review of the site EMS on an annual basis.

  • To Champion and Lead Climate Change and Sustainability (CC&S). You will work alongside the Top-Level Budget (TLB) CC&S Team to support the HLB Lead to cohere and deliver real changes in achieving MOD’s Net Zero and Greening Government Commitments (GGC).

  • Attend Top Level Budget (TLB) CC&S Working Group Meetings as a representative of the HLB to provide updates, highlight and issues, risks etc and working to provide mitigations where possible.

Please refer to the attached Terms of Reference for a full list of duties.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Leadership

  • Seeing the Big Picture

  • Making Effective Decisions

  • Communicating and Influencing

  • Working Together

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

  • Leadership

  • Seeing the Big Picture

  • Working Together

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £36,530, Ministry of Defence contributes £10,582 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
  • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible working options
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
  • Free car parking
  • Sports & Social clubs
  • Gym
  • On site shops and subsidised canteens

Things You Need to Know

Selection Process Details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

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.

When choosing your Behaviour/Technical Skills examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments.

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.

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.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed.
The level of security needed is Security Check.

At Application Stage You Will Be Assessed Against:

Behaviours:

  • Leadership

  • Seeing the Big Picture

  • Working Together

In the event of a high volume of applications, an initial sift will be based on the lead behaviour which is Leadership.

Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in your CV and that you have saved it, making sure that any reference to your personal details have been removed from your CV prior to submitting your application.

Desirable Qualifications – Must Have or Be Willing to Work Towards:

  • Must have or be willing to work towards:
    • Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) Foundation Certificate in Environmental Management
    • ISO14001 Lead Auditor
    • (NEBOSH) General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety

    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 and how to use your 250-word limit.

    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.

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    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.

    This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative. Making the Civil Service a Great Place to Work for Veterans – GOV.UK

    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 dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcing@mod.gov.uk.

    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.

    Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality Requirements

This job is open to:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Name: Pete Brady
Email: peter.brady106@mod.gov.uk

Recruitment team contact:
Email: DBSCivPers-SGDMSResourcing@mod.gov.uk

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