Selection Process Details
STAGE 1 - APPLICATION & SIFT:
This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
Please submit your application including CV and supporting statement (maximum 500 words)
Your application should set out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Your Supporting Statement should explain how your personal skills, qualities and experience meet the essential skills for this role.
The CV and Supporting statement will be marked separately and you must pass both to move through to interview.
If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview.
STAGE 2 – INTERVIEW
All candidates who are successful at the sift stage will undertake a single video interview with Technical assessment and presentation.
All applicants that progress to interview will be assessed on an interview using Behaviours elements of Success Profiles. Technical, knowledge and experience will also be tested at interview
Behaviours:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
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Working Together
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Managing a Quality Service
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Delivering at Pace
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
Unfortunately, late applications will not be considered.
Option 2 – Across Civil Service
This vacancy is open to all Civil Service employees and employees of accredited non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) who were appointed on merit following a fair and open competition; or were appointed to a permanent post through an exception in the Civil Service Commissioners' rules.
If we receive a large volume of applications we reserve the right to do a pre-sift on CV’S before completing a full sift which will include sifting on the personal statements’
Reserve List:
Candidates who pass the interview criteria but are not offered a post will be kept on a reserve list for 12 months and may be contacted if similar roles become available.
If you are interviewed for the post and do not meet the required threshold for the specified grade, your application may be assessed against a similar, lower grade role and you may be offered the post should one be available.
UKHSA offers hybrid working for its employees – this means that whilst the role will be based in one of our UKHSA offices, there will be opportunities for an element of working from home. The balance between home and workplace working is to be agreed with the line manager, determined primarily by business need and in line with departmental policy.
Some business travel will be required to other UKHSA offices. Business travel between base location and any other UKHSA offices will be covered under the UKHSA Travel and Expenses policy.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas. Relocation expenses are not available.
Further information
The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles.
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact UKHSA Public Accountability Unit via email: [email protected].
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website here.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.