Justin Hassett

Assigned to the Postgraduate Diploma in Aerospace Medicine at King's College London to Prepare for taking the Faculty of Occupational Medicine's DAvMed examinations which are recognised as an international leading qualification for Aviation and Aerospace Medicine Specialists. Expected completion May 2025

Sick leave due to serious illness with life-saving surgery and recovery. Graduated return to work carried out successfully.

Head of Medical for Recruitment & Attraction

I led the Service Entry Medical Cell, a nine-person team dealing with all medical aspects of recruitment into the Royal Navy. I was directly responsible to the Head of Navy Recruiting (a Navy captain) and subject to quality assurance by the Head of the Royal Navy Medical Service, a Surgeon Commodore. I advised the Head of Navy Recruiting on all medical matters regarding fitness for military service and held the responsibility for the running and assurance of the contract (£2 million per year) with provider of applicant medicals. This included the oversight of the training and assurance of the Doctors working for the contractor.

I was one of two Royal Navy members of the tri-Service Medical Employability Standards Military Judgement Panel. This group is charged with ensuring timely input to JSP 950 the Tri-service Handbook of Medical Fitness reflecting both Service need and medical advances.

My duties included consideration and staffing of difficult and disputed cases of fitness for military service of RN candidates. This required liaison with candidates’ regular civilian medical attendants, both specialist and general as necessary, in order to ascertain the candidates’ medical fitness for military service, and further referral to specialist medical practitioners as appropriate.

A significant part of my responsibility wass ensuring that the contracted medical recruitment process met the Royal Navy’s requirements and that contracted Military Medical Examiners (MMEs) understood the importance of their role and the application of published guidance. I delivered this by regular operational and strategic meetings with the Contractor as well as initial and 6 monthly refresher training meetings for the Doctors which cover general and specific fitness issues.

• Regional Occupational Health Consultant (ROHC) for Scotland, Northern Ireland and North of England
• Largest area of population at risk for the Royal Navy
• Responsible for a small Occupational Health team delivering effect across a number of Naval establishments and including the RN's largest submariner population

• Locum Consultant in Occupational Medicine for Regional Occupational Health Team Portsmouth
• covering the Occupational Medicine needs for the Royal Navy's largest Naval base as well as London and various overseas Service populations

• Specialist Training in Occupational Medicine across the MOD and NHS culminating in Membership of the Faculty of Occupational Physicians of the Royal College of Physicians