Flexible Service case study: Lance Corporal Rosemarie Coetzer video transcript
Updated 28 April 2023
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Flexible Service Case Study: Lance Corporal Rosemarie Coetzer
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My name is Lance Corporal Rosemarie Coetzer.
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I’m a musician in the band of the Welsh Guards. The benefit to the unit
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with me being on Flexible Service, is what I’m going to learn whilst I’m on
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Flexible Service to bring back within the unit. I’m currently studying
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a master’s in music, mind and brain, so music psychology. There isn’t many
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people in the job that understand performance anxiety
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and not at such a neuro-science level. So I hope to bring an element of my
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course back into the job to help people that may suffer with performance anxiety and be able
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to help others in that area. The type of Flexible Service I applied for was the 20 percent
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reduction without having the separation allowance. A lot of my colleagues have supported it
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even up to the top of my chain of command. My chain of command have been
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brilliant with the support they’ve given me. We’ve worked closely together since starting with
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Flexible Service to arrange in advance the days that I will be taking off.
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She’s taking ownership of her career but also her quality of life
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and other people will see this within the unit and will see it as a good thing.
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Flexible Service will definitely retain people in terms of being able to allow
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people to cut down hours to be able to do other things as well as doing the job.