Royal Navy- RN Family & People Support (RNFPS)- Social Worker
UK Ministry of Defence
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Portsmouth
Contract type: Part time
HMS Nelson, Queen Street, Portsmouth
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
In this role you will:
Deliver multi-disciplinary specialist welfare casework by positively engaging in integrated activities to enhance service delivery and promote holistic ways of working.
Coordinate and manage your own workflows in order to achieve optimal capability, ensuring the delivery of high-quality specialist welfare casework
Be competent in the use of electronic information and case recording systems
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.
In This Role You Will
Deliver multi-disciplinary specialist welfare casework by positively engaging in integrated activities to enhance service delivery and promote holistic ways of working.
Coordinate and manage your own workflows in order to achieve optimal capability, ensuring the delivery of high-quality specialist welfare casework
Be competent in the use of electronic information and case recording systems
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.
Person specification
If you are passionate about welfare, have experience in managing a complex caseload including safeguarding then this is the job for you
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, 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 and recording in a timely manner and in line with FPS Processes, Guidelines complying with all applicable legal frameworks and statutory guidance. This will require regular communication with Service Users and attendance at home visits and multi-disciplinary team meetings
Licences
Social Work England (SWE) registration
Qualifications
Social Work degree or equivalent (eg Dipsw)
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
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. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.
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. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.
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. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.
MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey – We may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Policy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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.
We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of gender and ethnic group. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
Please submit a CV (to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience) alongside a personal statement up to 1000 words that details your experience in relation to the role and covers Delivering at Pace and Working Together.
During the Application stage, candidates will be assessed against the following behaviours;
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 in to 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. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It 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.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Contact point for applicants
Job Contact
Please ensure you read the attached candidate information document prior to completing your application. If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received from DBS, or believe that DBS has failed to follow the recruitment process in line with the Civil Service Commission principles of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of Fair and Open competition, you can raise a formal complaint by writing to DBS at the following address: Defence Business Services, Scanning Hub, Room 6124, Tomlinson House, Norcross Lane, Blackpool, FY5 3WP. If after raising your complaint with DBS you remain dissatisfied you can complain directly to the Civil Service Commission at the following address: Civil Service commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ Or by email: [email protected].
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
In this role you will:
Deliver multi-disciplinary specialist welfare casework by positively engaging in integrated activities to enhance service delivery and promote holistic ways of working.
Coordinate and manage your own workflows in order to achieve optimal capability, ensuring the delivery of high-quality specialist welfare casework
Be competent in the use of electronic information and case recording systems
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.
In This Role You Will
Deliver multi-disciplinary specialist welfare casework by positively engaging in integrated activities to enhance service delivery and promote holistic ways of working.
Coordinate and manage your own workflows in order to achieve optimal capability, ensuring the delivery of high-quality specialist welfare casework
Be competent in the use of electronic information and case recording systems
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.
Person specification
If you are passionate about welfare, have experience in managing a complex caseload including safeguarding then this is the job for you
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, 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 and recording in a timely manner and in line with FPS Processes, Guidelines complying with all applicable legal frameworks and statutory guidance. This will require regular communication with Service Users and attendance at home visits and multi-disciplinary team meetings
Licences
Social Work England (SWE) registration
Qualifications
Social Work degree or equivalent (eg Dipsw)
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing
- Changing and Improving
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
- 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)
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. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.
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. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.
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. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.
MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey – We may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Policy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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.
We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of gender and ethnic group. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
Please submit a CV (to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience) alongside a personal statement up to 1000 words that details your experience in relation to the role and covers Delivering at Pace and Working Together.
During the Application stage, candidates will be assessed against the following behaviours;
- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
- Leadership
- Seeing the bigger Picture
- Communicating and Influencing
- Changing and Improving
- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
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 in to 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. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It 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.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Contact point for applicants
Job Contact
- Name : Terrie Brown
- Email : [email protected]
- Email : [email protected]
Please ensure you read the attached candidate information document prior to completing your application. If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received from DBS, or believe that DBS has failed to follow the recruitment process in line with the Civil Service Commission principles of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of Fair and Open competition, you can raise a formal complaint by writing to DBS at the following address: Defence Business Services, Scanning Hub, Room 6124, Tomlinson House, Norcross Lane, Blackpool, FY5 3WP. If after raising your complaint with DBS you remain dissatisfied you can complain directly to the Civil Service Commission at the following address: Civil Service commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ Or by email: [email protected].
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