Brain Injury Health Care Assistant at Health and Social Care Limited (2025-11 – 2026-02)
- Working in a team and providing hands on care and support for a complex care client who has a brain injury and challenging behaviour
Community Volunteer Coordinator - Mid Cornwall (Temporary contract) at Berry Recruitment – Volunteer Cornwall (2025-05 – 2025-11)
- Working in the community and recruiting volunteers to support in the community with people who are socially isolated due to their vulnerabilities such as mental health, age, health and financial
- Integrating people into the community hubs, offering advice and coordinating individuals to the relevant organisations to support their health and wellbeing
- Supporting other organisations with volunteers, improving communities and community hubs in Mid Cornwall
- Reducing impact on the NHS and emergency services by assisting with volunteers to support with high intensity users, discharges, prescription collection etc
- Assisting with projects like Volunteering for Health, Climate Change and Homes from Hospital
- Networking and attending events and teams meetings
- Working with Social Prescribers, GP surgeries and Hospitals to bring the best service to the community
Female Support Worker at LDA Care (Homes not Hospitals) (2024-03 – 2025-05)
Working as part of a team with a client and duties include:
- Working with Autism, PTSD, Psychotic Disorder, Pathological Defiant Disorder, Depression and Anxiety
- Supporting the client with mental health challenges using low arousal and positive behaviour support techniques
- Sensory play, personal care and monitoring behaviours of concern
- Attending MDT meetings, analysing risk and safeguarding
Mental Wellbeing Practitioner (Six month contract) at Bupa Health Care Ltd (2023-05 – 2023-10)
Working independently as part of a clinical team duties include:
- Working with a diverse range of patient groups
- Performing telephone-based clinically robust and comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment, formulation and treatment planning for clients and members who access the service
- Participating in multi-disciplinary decision-making regarding clients or members with psychological or psychiatric needs
- Supporting clients participating in Low Intensity CBT on SilverCloud
- Safeguarding and risk management
- Knowledge and awareness of current legislation and own responsibilities for professional practice in relation to risk issues including Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Children and completing relevant training and updates
Assistant Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner/Case Manager at Vita Health Group (2022-01 – 2023-04)
Working within the Network Case Management Service duties include:
- Managing over 200 cases of mental health care cases
- Overseeing patient treatment and liaising with Network therapists to ensure that patients are progressing in line with expectations
- Being a dynamic and motivated individual, committed and passionate about clinical quality and outcomes, delivering the best possible emotional support, guidance, and care
- Completing induction with psychological therapists and Cognitive Behavioural Therapists
- Attending teams meetings and being responsible for a caseload of Face to Face cases which is a new part of the business development
- Quality assuring discharge reports and GP letters and onward referrals
- Time management and organising my workload well
Clinical Health Care Worker at Royal Cornwall Hospital (Kernowflex, Bank work) (2020-05 – 2022-03)
Working on Critical Care, Trauma Unit, MAU, Wellington, Roskear and Infectious Disease wards and providing quality person-centred care to patients with a range of physical and mental health conditions and injuries.
- Providing empathetic and compassionate care dealing with end of life patients and their family
- Undertaking clinical observations and carefully monitoring patients
- Cleaning and dressing wounds
- Taking cannulas out of patients and emptying catheters
- Providing quality care for all my patients mentally and physically
- Being a helpful part of the team and communicating effectively
Clinical Health Care Worker at Plan B Healthcare at Royal Cornwall Hospital (2020-01 – 2020-05)
Agency work with duties as above, same location, with different recruitment agency.
Mental Health Clinical Support Worker (Psychiatric Inpatient Wards) at Cornwall Foundation Trust NHS (2017-03 – 2019-08)
Working on the inpatient psychiatric wards in Bodmin and Redruth in acute, dementia, intensive psychiatric care, rehabilitation and forensic as well as working within the community mental health team.
- Emotionally supporting individuals with a range of complex mental health disorders
- De-escalating aggression and communicating with health professionals using excellent communication skills
- Building excellent therapeutic relationships with individuals and working through emotional difficulties using empathy and compassion
- Undertaking clinical, neurological and physical observations
Health Care Assistant (Mental Health) at Nurseplus (2016-08 – 2017-03)
Working in the community emotionally and physically supporting individuals with mental health disorders.
Bookkeeper at Self-employed (2014-09 – 2016-08)
- Recording financial transactions for businesses
- Meetings with clients to discuss budgets and accounts
- Balancing bank and other ledger accounts
- Preparing trial balance for management accountant
Children's Worker at Pendean Children's Home (2012-09 – 2013-02)
- Working 1:1 with children in care with attachment and behavioural problems
- Supporting children going through the adoption and foster care process
- Enhancing wellbeing
Teaching Assistant at St Columb Major Academy School (2009-09 – 2011-07)
- Assisting class teacher with curriculum activities and after school dance class
Accounts Technician (Seasonal) at Atlantic Reach Resort (2009-04 – 2009-09)
- Preparing income and expenditure budgets for departments within the resort
- Training staff and implementing new systems
- Cashing up and banking any monies received
Full time mother to two children at Personal (2006-04 – 2009-04)
Accounts Technician at Happy Days Day Nurseries (2004-11 – 2006-04)
- Completing accounts for six nurseries in the South West
- Implementing new systems and training staff
Gap Year Travelling at Personal Travel (2003-06 – 2004-11)
Accounts Technician at Eden Currie Ltd, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors (2001-11 – 2003-06)
- Preparing financial accounts for sole traders and small business
- Completion of VAT Returns
- Bookkeeping duties for various businesses
PA to Director at Wetton & Co., Chartered Accountants (Merged with Eden Currie in 2001) (1999-01 – 2001-11)
- Daily management of meetings, correspondence and note taking
- Typing reports, letters and minutes of meetings
- Sending emails and other admin tasks
- Insolvency work
- Bookkeeping and accounts duties
Senior Secretary at BBT Ltd, Recruitment Consultancy (1996-01 – 1999-01)
- Secretarial duties
- Training and supervising other staff members
