People are at the ❤ of our work.
Take the next step in your career and discover the opportunities we have to offer.
The Adam Practice strives to provide the highest quality care to our patients and local community. If you are committed, driven and have the ideas and passion to improve the quality of life for our patients and communities, then we want to hear from you! We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services for our patients. We hope that you will be able to contribute to the achievement of this aim.
Current Vacancies
Recruitment Process
All adverts on our career site close at 11.59pm on the specified closing date. Please pay particular attention to the date that the advert closes, as on-line applications cannot be submitted once the closing time has passed. In addition, once a job has closed, job descriptions and person specifications will no longer be available on the site and in view of this it is advisable to save a copy to your local drive.
Completing your Application
The information you provide in your application must be accurate. If you conceal or misrepresent relevant information at any stage during the recruitment process, your application may be disqualified.
If it is not possible for you to apply on-line, you may request an application pack by telephoning the Recruitment Team on 01202 673159. If you require any assistant or have a question regarding the completion of your application, please email [email protected].
Supporting Information Section
The supporting information section is the most important part of your application form as the decision on whether to shortlist you for interview is mainly based on the information you provide here. When drafting this section, please pay particular attention to the person specification, as it lists all the essential and desirable criteria, together with the behavioural competencies, which you need to evidence. You must ensure that you address all of this in your application form in order to be shortlisted for interview.
The supporting information section should not include your CV or personal information such as name, address, email address etc.
When setting out the requirements for the job we use essential/desirable criteria of which some are behavioural competencies, and all of this is set out in the person specification.
You must refer to and address each of the essential criteria and competencies identified in the person specification in turn. This will ensure that you structure your supporting information in a logical way and enable you to give evidence of the behaviours, experience, knowledge, and skills you have in each area by providing practical examples of your competence. Please also include any evidence of the desirable requirements identified in the person specification. Fully completing the ‘Supporting Information’ section in this way will provide you with the best opportunity of being shortlisted.
Please avoid making a series of statements without evidence to back up what you are saying. For example:
“I have knowledge of the processes used in my role” or “I am an effective communicator”
Statements like this will not provide the short-listing panel with actual evidence of what you have done.
When providing your evidence, please describe
- what you did,
- how you did it,
- why you did it and
- the effect that this had,
This will show that you understand what is required and that you are capable of doing it.
References
When completing your application, you will be asked to provide the name and contact details of two referees, one of which must be your current or last employer. If you have not been employed before, we will require a character referee such as a college tutor, teacher, or someone other than a relative, who can comment on your suitability. Referees will not be contacted until after a verbal offer of employment has been made.
Criminal Convictions
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 sets out that when applying for jobs you do not need to disclose any criminal convictions you may have which are “spent”. Some jobs however are exempt from the provisions of this act, which means that you must state on the application form all criminal convictions, cautions and reprimands etc. you have, regardless of whether they are spent or not. The application form will clearly state what you need to disclose.
Shortlisting
Once the closing date has passed, all applications are sent to the recruiting manager for short listing.The recruiting manager will review your information against the essential and desirable requirements of the role, as detailed in the job description and person specification. If you’re successful at this stage, you advance to the selection stage. If not, you can ask for feedback from the recruiting manager.
Interviews
If you pass the selection stage and offered an interview you will receive an email inviting you to the interview. Details will include date, time, location and who will be on the interview panel to confirm your attendance this will be done by email or telephone. If your interview is successful, we’ll let you know as soon as possible, usually by phone. If you’re unsuccessful, you’ll be notified by email, phone or in writing. You can get feedback by contacting either the recruiting manager or the recruitment team.
All applicants who have been offered an interview will be asked prior to attending whether they require any reasonable adjustments to allow them to participate in the process.
Offers of Employment
Any offer of employment will be subject to us completing a series of satisfactory pre employment checks. It’s important that you don’t resign from your current job until these checks are complete. Dependant on the role, we will seek written references and where necessary a disclosure and barring service (DBS) check, right to work and confirmation of qualifications.
Once all your clearance checks have been successfully completed the Recruitment team will contact you to arrange a mutually suitable start date. Shortly after this you’ll receive your contract of employment.
Employee Benefits and Support
We recognise that people are our most important asset. As an organisation we need the best people, which is why we aim to provide an attractive benefits package and positive employment experience. Our benefits include;
- Competitive salary and comprehensive induction
- Training and professional development
- Enhanced Annual Leave and Sick Pay scheme
- Auto enrolment in NHS Pension Scheme www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/nhs-pensions
At The Adam Practice we want you to feel supported in striving to achieve your own work/life balance. We all have a lifestyle to balance with work, family life, caring responsibilities, education and voluntary activities so flexible working arrangements are promoted for all employees. General guidance to the types of flexible working options available includes:
- Full time working
- Part-time working
- Job-share
- Annualised hours
- Flexible working
Health & Wellbeing
Employee Assistance Programme. Our programme from Health Assured provides confidential legal, financial and wellbeing advice 24/7. They offer one to one counselling and employee support for personal or work-related items. There is also a wellbeing app from Health Assured.
Cycle to Work Scheme
The Adam Practice is promoting healthier journeys to work for its’ employees and with this in mind is offers a Cycle to Work Scheme in conjunction with Green Commute Initiative, with the purpose of improving both the individual’s health and wellbeing, as well as reducing the environmental impact of pollution and congestion from cars. The Green Commute Initiative scheme to allow employees to benefit from savings in Income Tax and National Insurance when purchasing a bike to cycle to and from work. This is a salary sacrifice agreement over a 12-month period.
Complimentary annual flu vaccination
As well as our clinical staff vaccinating our patients it is important our employees are protected too. We offer all employees to have their annual flu vaccination in the workplace.
Access to Occupational Health Service
An Occupational Health service is available to employees with Dorset Healthcare. This service is used to support health in the workplace and a referral is made through the employee’s line manager.
Yoga Sessions
One of our GPs delivers a weekly yoga session to employees.
Eye Care
The practice has a scheme with Specsavers to provide access to an eye test in line with the Health & Safety Regulations. This is available to all employees who in the course of their work regularly use display screen equipment as a significant part of their normal work.
Employee Recognition
Every year we recognise our individual’s dedication to the practice and the wider NHS with a gift at 10, 15, 20 years’ service and beyond.
Social & Charity
- Best Foot Forward Charity – annual walk to raise funds for our Leg Club
- We donate our unused nursing stock to Monkey World
- Annual Christmas Party
Complimentary refreshments & fruit
Other NHS Discounts available: –
- A number of local gyms and leisure facilities offer discounted membership for NHS employees
- Blue Light Card for discounts at various retailers www.bluelightcard.co.uk/
- Health Service Discounts Scheme www.healthservicediscounts.com/
Privacy Notice for Applicants and Employees
As part of the recruitment process the practice collects, and processes personal data relating to job applicants and is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data in line with data protection legislation.
What information does the practice collect?
The practice collects a range of information about you. This includes:
- your name, address and contact details, including email address and telephone number.
- details of your qualifications, skills, experience and employment history.
- information about your current level of remuneration, including benefit entitlements.
- whether or not you have a disability for which the practice needs to make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process.
- information about your entitlement to work in the UK; and
- equal opportunities monitoring information, including information about your ethnic origin, sexual orientation, health and religion or belief.
The practice collects this information in a variety of ways, such as:
- Application forms:
- CVs or resumes.
- Copies of your passport other identity documents.
- Information collected through interviews.
The practice will also collect personal data about you from third parties, such as:
- References supplied by former employers.
- Information from employment background check providers and information from criminal records checks.
- The practice may seek information from third parties only once a job offer to you has been made and will inform you that it is doing so.
Data will be stored in a range of different places, including:
- Your application records.
- HR management systems.
- IT systems (including email).
Why does the practice process personal data?
The practice needs to process data to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract with you. It also needs to process your data to enter into a contract with you.
The practice needs to process data to ensure that it complies with its legal obligations such as being required to check a successful applicant’s eligibility to work in the UK before employment starts.
The practice has a legitimate interest in processing personal data during the recruitment process and for keeping records of the process. Processing data from job applicants allows the practice to:
- Manage the recruitment process.
- Assess and confirm a candidate’s suitability for employment.
- Decide to whom to offer a job.
- Respond to and defend against legal claims.
Where the practice relies on legitimate interests as a reason for processing data, it will consider whether or not those interests are overridden by the rights and freedoms of applicants, employees or workers.
The practice will process health information if it needs to make reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process for candidates who have a disability. This is to carry out its obligations and exercise specific rights in relation to employment. Where the practice processes other special categories of data, such as information about ethnic origin, sexual orientation, health or religion or belief, this is for equal opportunities monitoring purposes.
The practice is obliged to seek information about criminal convictions and offences in line with NHS Employers guidelines on criminal records checks, which you can read at: http://www.nhsemployers.org/your-workforce/recruit/employment-checks/criminal-record-check.
Who has access to data?
Your information will be shared internally for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes:
- Interviewers involved in the recruitment process
- Managers in the area with a vacancy
- HR staff
The practice will not share your data with third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and it makes you an offer of employment. The practice will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you, employment background check providers to obtain necessary background checks and the Disclosure and Barring Service to obtain necessary criminal records checks.
The practice will not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.
How does the practice protect data?
The practice takes the security of your data seriously. Internal policies and controls are in place to ensure that your data is not lost, accidentally destroyed, misused or disclosed, and is not accessed except by our employees in the proper performance of their duties. Those employees will access data through our HR management system using password controls. Electronic files are secured with permission controls. Paper records are held securely in locking cabinets, in locked offices.
For how long does the practice keep data?
If your application for employment is unsuccessful, the practice will hold your data on file for no longer than six months after the end of the relevant recruitment process. At the end of that period or once you withdraw your consent, your data is deleted or destroyed.
If your application for employment is successful, personal data gathered during the recruitment process will be transferred to your personnel file and retained during your employment. The periods for which your data will be held will be provided to you in a new privacy notice.
Your rights
As a data subject, you have a number of rights. You can:
- access and obtain a copy of your data on request.
- require the practice to change incorrect or incomplete data.
- require the practice to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing.
- object to the processing of your data where the practice is relying on its legitimate interests as the legal ground for processing; and
- ask the practice to stop processing data for a period if data is inaccurate or there is a dispute about whether or not your interests override the practice’s legitimate grounds for processing data.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact the management team based at Hamworthy Surgery, 306 Blandford Road, Hamworthy, Poole BH15 4JQ Tel: 01202 673159.
If you believe that the practice has not complied with your data protection rights, you can complain to the Information Commissioner.
What if you do not provide personal data?
You are under no statutory or contractual obligation to provide data to the practice during the recruitment process. However, if you do not provide the information, the practice may not be able to process your application properly or at all.
Data protection officer: Dr N Britton