SEO Social Work (SW) Professional Lead Advisor (PLA)
Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)
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Job summary
Here at Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) Stanford Hall, Loughborough, we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent rehabilitation service to our entitled personnel.
We are looking to recruit a Social Work (SW) Professional Lead Advisor(PLA) who actively demonstrates effective decision making and projects personality and character in this role. The successful candidate will motivate, guide and support members of the multi-disciplinary team to achieve desired end results, whilst working closely with the Head of Service and DPHC Social Work Cadre.
Does this sound like the role for you? If so, we would love to hear from you!
Benifits:
- Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA).
- GDC registration renewal currently reimbursed.
- On-Call allowance.
- Paid holiday entitlement.
- NHS pension scheme.
- Free parking.
- Access to swimming pool and gym.
- Access to small on site shop.
Main duties of the job
- The Social Work Professional Lead Adviser leads a professional Specialist Hospital Social Work Service, acting as a subject matter expert, for DMRC Stanford Hall. The PLA promotes professional best practice, advocacy and advises on education and training for staff and provides mentorship and professional supervision. The PLA is required to ensure that Business Continuity issues are in place and that positive collaboration is energetically fostered with external agencies.
- This service involves Social Work staff providing early assessment of patient and carers needs, risk assessments, safeguarding of individuals at risk, emotional support, advocacy, welfare rights, social case management, and rapid access to resources. Importantly social workers will plan and co-ordinate effective discharge arrangements and care packages for very dependent or complex-trauma patients, and ensure, as far as possible, continuity of care by early referral to and negotiation with appropriate external agencies.
- These activities are to support the multi-disciplinary clinical teams in Rheumatology and Rehabilitation (musculoskeletal, complex trauma and neurological) who work to accelerate the successful rehabilitation of military patients back to maximal possible health and operational fitness or reintegration into civilian life. Each social worker is fully integrated into the clinical team but also provides a service to the whole unit.
About us
Our success depends on our people, our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.
Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.
In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.
If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.
Date posted
31 January 2023
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£41,000 to £44,990 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Job share
Reference number
K0003-23-4178
Job locations
Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre
Standford Hall
Loughborough
LE12 5QW
Employer details
Employer name
Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)
Address
Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre
Standford Hall
Loughborough
LE12 5QW
Employer's website
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence (Opens in a new tab)
For questions about the job, contact:
Frances Semakula
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