Teacher
Falcon British Nursery
Total years of experience :9 years, 6 Months
Teaching children 3 - 4 years old, following the EYFS curriculum.
• Developing of lesson plans to meet curriculum objectives and benchmarks
• Facilitation of learning, by developing good relationships with pupils and organising the classroom, learning environment and resources to maximise learning potential
• Carrying out observations, tracking, evidencing and recording progress of pupils
• Challenging and inspiring children to improve their knowledge and understanding
• Managing a small classroom team of 2 teaching assistants to ensure all children’s needs are met.
My role as Teaching Assistant covered a diverse range of duties, my mail role was to support the class teacher with the learning and development needs of children in FS2, working to the British Curriculum within the BSME accredited school to support children with all aspects of learning and development.
• Working on a 1-1 basis with students allowing gifted children to excel and to support those with additional leaning needs
• Planning and delivery of group intervention work especially focused on EAL pupils
• Carrying out observations of children to see which learning goals they were able to meet independently and identifying areas where they may require extra support in line with the curriculum
• Accompanying children on outings and activities, ensuring all health and safety standards were met
• Preparation of the classroom and shared areas to ensure maximum stimulation and learning time.
In my most recent role responsible for the front of house at the large Randstad Birmingham hub office, alongside this, my time was divided between care and business support departments supporting them with their recruitment and compliance;
• Meeting and greeting, visitors, clients and candidates in a professional and courteous manner
• Maintenance management for the office
• Diary management of 12 conference and meeting rooms
• Compliance for the NHS contracts, including Occupational Health, Training, DBS checks and eligibility
• Designed and presented compliance related training
• Complaints handling and resolution
• General Administration
At Servoca, a nursing and care specialist agency, it was my responsibility to resource and prepare candidates for work in the care sector, day to day duties included;
• Pre registration, vetting and interviewing candidates to asses suitability for available positions
• Taking candidates through the full recruitment process, ensuring all candidates have correct eligibility to work, up to date CRB’s, are fully referenced, have occupational health clearance and training is co-ordinated to prepare candidates for work
• Candidate compliance; keeping eligibility evidence, training, CRB’s, occupational health, referencing, appraisals and supervisions up to date
• Advertising and marketing and visiting jobs fairs to attract candidates
• Making sure recruitment targets were met
• Auditing files and reporting findings to ensure quality and compliance targets are met
• Through this role I have gained extensive knowledge of immigration rules and have significant experience in identifying fraudulent documents and paperwork abnormalities
• Front of house, meeting and greeting visitors
• General people liaison, customer service and administration duties
I worked at Personnel and Care Bank on a fixed term contract covering maternity leave, the job role and duties mirrored the role I went on to do at Servoca / Firstpoint, with the exception of the full marketing plan I designed to ensure the right candidates were attracted for the roles & the supervision of the administration team ensuring compliance and CQC standards were met.
After returning to the UK I took up a casual role at The Connaught Bar, soon my hours were upgraded to full time and I managed the bars for various events;
• Serving customers both food and drinks, delivering the highest level of customer service
• Stock management and stock taking for supplier orders
• Distribution of staff to sufficiently manage each event
Whilst in Australia I undertook temporary employment at a non profit domiciliary nursing organisation which provided personal care to people unable to care for themselves in their own homes. Duties included;
• Telephone and front of house liaison with clients
• Dealing with invoicing queries & handling payments
• Creating client newsletter & designing flyers and advertisements for up and coming events of interest to clients
• General administration
• General bar duties, pulling pints, mixing drinks including waitress and food service
• Providing an exceptional level of customer care
• Restocking bar and kitchen
• Cash handling
• Full GSAT security training
Whilst at Balfor I undertook two roles Payroll Administrator and Receptionist duties included;
• Meeting and greeting clients and candidates
• Office maintenance management
• Management of room diaries, scheduling meetings and appointments
• Coordination of work experience students, arranging and conducting interviews and giving safety inductions once they begin placement
• Processing weekly payroll for up to 300 candidates
• Calculating pay and charge rates according to the hours worked
• Confident in using SAGE software
• Entering payments for each candidate whilst following strict deadlines
• Audio typing referral letters, requesting appointments from various hospital departments
• Scanning and coding of patient information into their medical record
• Dealing with incoming patient and hospital queries
• Issuing patient prescriptions and adding new medication
• Management of filing and introducing a new archiving system
I was made redundant from this position in March 2007 due to a reshuffle in the staffing structure within the health centre.
2004 - 2006 Solihull Sixth Form College AVCE - Media, Marketing and Communications Technology - Grade CC
1999 - 2004 St Paul's RC Girls School 9 GCSE's Grade A-C including Maths, English & Science Double Award GNVQ ICT