Please ensure that at the application and interview stages of the campaign you review the Success Profiles Framework to assist you in the demonstration of your skills and experience.
Your suitability for the role will be assessed using the Success Profile elements that have been chosen for this campaign. Each element will be scored accordingly, and the successful candidate will be appointed on merit.
Please provide your evidence using the STAR Technique using the attached information on how to apply.
Situation: Describe the situation you found yourself in. You must describe a specific event or situation. Be sure to give enough detail for the job holder to understand. Where are you? Who was there with you? What had happened?
Task: The recruitment panel will want to understand what you tried to achieve from the situation you found yourself in. What was the task that you had to complete and why? What did you have to achieve?
Action: What did you do? The job holder will be looking for information of what you did, how you did it and why. Keep the focus on you. What specific steps did you take and what was your contribution? Remember to include how you did it, and the behaviours you used. Try to use I rather than we to explain your actions that lead to the result. Be careful not to take credit for something that you did not do.
Result: Dont be shy about taking credit for your behaviour. Quote specific facts and figures easily understandable. What results did the actions produce? What did you achieve through your actions, and did you meet your goals? Was it a successful outcome? If not, what did you learn from the experience? Keep the situation and task parts brief.
Concentrate on the action and the result. If the result was not entirely successful describe what you learned from this and what you would do differently next time. Make sure you focus on your strengths. When providing your evidence please ensure that you avoid acronyms and company specific jargon.
At application you will be assessed against the following:
Experience:
CV:
- Full Qualification details
- Job History
Personal Statement:
Please use up to 1000 words in a Personal statement to cover the following:
- Your experience leading a successful H&S change programme in an infrastructure or engineering organisation.
- Your experience establishing a positive and pro-active H&S culture.
- Your experience developing and leading an effective, efficient H&S assurance programme in a highly regulated organisation.
When writing a personal statement, it is important that you:
- Read the job specification so you are clear about the job requirements
- Outline the skills and experience that you have that are relevant to the job and use examples to help demonstrate this
- Keep to the word limit, if your statement is too brief it will not provide the required depth of detail and evidence to be assessed fully
- Please do not use acronyms
We require you to provide evidence and a demonstration of specific skills, knowledge or transferable experience. This will allow you to provide evidence to show a more rounded picture of your suitability for the role.
At interview you will be assessed against the above PLUS the following:
Behaviours:
- Leadership
- Changing and Improving
Technical skill:
- Safety and Environment Functional Competency Framework V2 - Stakeholder Engagement (Advanced)
Reference
https://modgovuk.sharepoint.com/:b:/r/sites/IntranetHeadOffice/SiteAssets/SitePages/HS%26EP-Skills-%26-Competencies/20240216---S-E-Functional-Competency-Framework-V2--1-.pdf?csf=1&web=1&e=GKP1br
We want to offer opportunities to all who are successful at interview for our roles, but this isn't always possible, so we do hold candidates on an active reserve list for 12 months. It is also possible that we may offer similar lower graded role/s to reserve candidates or, if no reserves are appointed, candidates that meet the lower grade criteria in merit order.
Application sifting is scheduled to take place on week commencing: 8 July 2024. Interviews are currently taking place remotely through a digital platform, this will be confirmed with the successful candidates who are invited to an interview and will be conducted week commencing: 15 July 2024.
A minimum of 2 full working days notice will be provided for interviews. We endeavour to stick to these dates, but these are subject to change around business needs.
To assist with your application please find attached below:
- DIO Candidate Information Guide
- DIO Candidate Information Guide - Accessible Version
For help and support with your application check out our Civil Service Careers Homepage and the How to apply section
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: [email protected] .
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.
The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and 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.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
