Senior support worker - Active Healthcare Services
(2023-02)
Responsible for 1:1 and group support for a range of clients with additional support needs
- Assisting with personal care, hygiene and health needs to ensure safety and wellbeing
- Supporting communication, social skills and leisure activities to build confidence, helping with daily tasks such as transport, meal preparation, shopping etc
- Developing and reviewing person-centred support plans including risk assessments and support documentation whilst maintaining routines
- Encouraging and supporting decision making
- Shift planning and oversight
- Supervising trainee colleagues on shift and providing training
- Providing on-call support as scheduled
- Development and review of support plans
Support Worker - TNT Healthcare
(2022-09 - 2023-02)
During my time at TNT Healthcare, I was responsible for:
- Assisting with personal care, hygiene and health needs to ensure safety and wellbeing
- Supporting communication, social skills and leisure activities to build confidence, helping with daily tasks such as transport, meal preparation, shopping etc.
- Developing and reviewing person-centred support plans including risk assessments and support documentation whilst maintaining routines
- Encouraging and supporting decision making
- Other ad-hoc tasks as needed whilst on shift or as instructed by management
Buyer - Masters Paint & Hardware
(2022-02 - 2022-09)
As the Buyer, I was responsible for carrying out the full procurement process at Masters Paint & Hardware in relation to a range of suppliers.
- Following process for purchases from approved suppliers
- Sourcing new local and international suppliers
- Negotiating contractual matters such as delivery, product quality, pricing, payment terms and order consolidation
- Pricing reviews and comparisons
- Stock consignments
- Compiling monthly reports and preparing other ad-hoc reports for management
- Taking ownership of delivery processes
- Other ad-hoc tasks as instructed by the Buying Manager
Assistant Procurement Officer - Ingwebu Breweries
(2020-07 - 2022-02)
During my time as Assistant Procurement Officer, I was responsible for:
- Compiling monthly procurement reports
- Management of the receiving of bids and prepare for review by senior management
- Updating all comparison sheets required by the Procurement Officer
- Issuing of orders to suppliers
- Minute-taking during various meetings relating to the tendering process
- Ad-hoc office tasks such as booking venues for senior meetings and ensuring office supplies were well-stocked
- Updating trackers relating to the tendering process
- Ensuring deliveries meet supplier requirements
- Other ad-hoc tasks as instructed by the Procurement Officer and other senior management
Assistant Buyer - OK Zimbabwe Limited
(2016 - 2020)
After being promoted to Assistant Buyer, I was responsible for:
- Ensuring the approved suppliers list was maintained and that all stock was purchased from such list only
- Purchasing stock and ensuring deliveries are received in time
- Management of stock in store including oversight of stock rotation, and ensuring bar coding and price marking was correct
- Processing of returns to suppliers and updating relevant documentation
- Maintenance of supplier relations
- Managing the receipt of goods-in items within store
- Other ad-hoc tasks as instructed by management
Branch Administrative Clerk - OK Zimbabwe Limited
(2015 - 2016)
As Branch Admin Clerk, I was responsible for:
- Processing of invoices and goods-received notes and ensuring these match orders
- Ensuring the timely registration and approval of all expense invoices
- Ownership of month-end returns and ensuring these are accurately processed, authorised and submitted on time
- To plan, organise and oversee stocktake and loss control processes in store
- To ensure risk and loss control systems were adequately monitored and adhered to
- To achieve 0.5% shrinkage
- Ensure the fixed assets register was kept up-to-date
- Oversight and implementation of asset-identification processes
- Ownership of the debtors accounts payments and reconciliation processes
- Tracking daily expenditure through cost control sheet
- Ad-hoc tasks in store such as submitting meter readings and other tasks as instructed by management
Buying Assistant - OK Zimbabwe Limited
(2014 - 2015)
During my time as Buying Assistant, I was responsible for:
- Ensuring shelf-edge labels match til prices for all products and updating as required
- Ensuring all goods are available on shelves as appropriate
- Testing all shelf-edge labels were correctly communicating with digital scanning system
- Monitoring processes relating to expiry dates including stock rotation and wastage
- Monitoring merchandising team
- Ad-hoc tasks as instructed by management
Customer Assistant on Checkouts - OK Zimbabwe Limited
(2013 - 2014)
I began working for OK as a Customer Assistant within the Checkouts department.
- Ensuring customers receive excellent customer service
- Upselling products at the tillpoint
- Ensuring products are sold at the correct price according to shelf-edge labels
- Monitoring expiry dates and removing expired products from the shelf
- General house-keeping duties around the store such as tidying and clearing shelves
- Ad-hoc tasks as instructed by management
Various Leadership roles - CRC Scotland
(2024-01)
I am currently a volunteer at my local church and hold a number of leadership positions
- Head of Sound department
- Leading a small group weekly which includes pastoral-type support to 6-8 people on an ongoing basis
Healthcare Assistant - Entembeni Old People's Home
(2021-09 - 2022-02)
As a voluntary Healthcare Assistant, I delivered high quality care to a group of patients under the supervision and guidance of qualified nursing staff.
