Job Summary
Royal Navy Family and People Support (RN FPS) is the Royal Navy’s dedicated welfare delivery organisation and is an integral part of Navy Command’s People Support. RN FPS offers a range of specialist services to RN Personnel, their families, and wider military communities across the UK and Overseas. If you are a qualified, registered social worker, who wants to make a real difference in the lives of RN personnel and their families, then we want to hear from you.
The primary RN FPS function is delivery of an agile, integrated multi-disciplinary suite of services to support a global Navy. RN FPS provides three main pillars of service including Casework, Community Development & Outreach Support, and Information and Communication platforms. This adaptable and integrated organisation strives to enable and sustain resilience and resourcefulness within our diverse Naval Service Community.
Casework provides specific and tailored support to social care needs from crisis intervention to onward longer-term interventions. Casework service includes specialist support, especially during times of illness, grief and loss, or separation; and in particular where there are ongoing concerns for children, family, or relationships. As a Social Worker within the team, you will be crucial to the success of service delivery.
RN FPS provides an open, flexible and supportive work environment, with a blended workforce comprised of civil servants and RN personnel working together.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
Job Description
RN FPS Portal Team is the primary point of contact crisis intervention provision to Naval Service personnel and their families around the world. Primarily focused on remote casework support via telecommunication and digital mediums although not exclusively. You will be expected to respond to people in personal crisis in a sensitive and timely manner, assessing their level of need whilst advising the Command of potential courses of compassionate action that supports operational effectiveness.
In This Role You Will
1. Deliver multi-disciplinary specialist welfare casework by positively engaging in integrated activities to enhance service delivery and promote holistic ways of working.
2. Coordinate and manage your own workflows in order to achieve optimal capability, ensuring the delivery of high-quality specialist welfare casework.
3. Be competent in the use of electronic information and case recording systems.
4. Provide formal supervision, reporting, and guidance to caseworkers and other staff, as the position requires. This includes mentoring of internal specialist welfare students and Social Work University students, commensurate with own experience, capacity and abilities.
Note that travel may be required, including overnight stays, to visit families, RN locations and attendance at meetings and forums. Full UK Driving Licence desirable.
Person Specification
As a Social Worker you will provide a reactive Specialist Welfare service to Service Personnel and their families, encompassing emotional support, advice, guidance, and signposting to additional support, ensuring individual well-being and the safety of vulnerable adults/children is paramount.
You will be required to respond to allocated work, and subsequent case management direction, and record activities in a timely manner in line with FPS processes, guidelines and complying with all applicable legal frameworks and statutory guidance. This will require regular communication with Service Users and potential attendance at home visits and multi-disciplinary team meetings.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Working Together
* Delivering at Pace
* Leadership
* Seeing the Big Picture
* Communicating and Influencing
* Changing and Improving
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
* Working Together
* Delivering at Pace
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.
* 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%
* Annual Leave Allowance on entry to the Civil Service is 25 days (Previous Government service may contribute to an increased allowance)
The MOD provides an excellent opportunity to develop skills through personal development and offers flexible working, excellent annual leave and parental allowances and a very competitive pension scheme.
Navy Command offers support and development in your career, including apprenticeships, that you can undertake as part of your role. An apprenticeship is a combined package of work and training. Through an apprenticeship, you will gain professional knowledge, practical experience and wider skills required for their job and future career. The successful candidate can discuss their development options with their manager when in post.
In Navy Command we understand the everyday commitments both inside and outside the workplace, so our aim is to provide the flexibility to maintain work-life balance. We also offer an impressive range of on-site facilities including sports facilities and ample free car parking spaces.
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 post does not offer relocation expenses.
External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.
Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.
Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.
Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare.
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.
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