Resources for Autism
Autism Support Worker - September 2019 - June 2020
Autism Support Volunteer - August 2018 - September 2019
- Worked with children, teenagers and adults across the spectrum, to gain experience of autism, profound learning difficulty and behaviour that can be difficult.
- Gained experience working with people with non-verbal autism as well as social anxiety, OCD and selective mutism.
- Assisted adults in the community as well as children in their homes or at playschemes.
- Responsible for organising activities for service users such as outings, active play, messy play, music and art activities. Assisted clients in accessing equine therapy.
- Worked as part of a multidisciplinary team, including carers, behavioural specialists, speech therapists and psychologists to help service users to achieve their goals.
- Worked within a family support plan towards targets such as managing anxiety, accepting negative emotions and achieving independence. Filled out log sheets after each session to discuss progress with a supervisor and create goals for the next session.
Lee Hecht Harrison Penna
Project Coordinator - October 2015 - December 2016
Responsible for the coordination and governance of a senior management training course serving over 1500 candidates for a leading rail infrastructure company. This involved:
- Client liaison up to executive level, including dealing with complaints and attending commercial meetings.
- Financial administration for the project, including budget management.
- Acting as the first point of contact for all students, trainers, clients and associates.
- Aggregated and analysed monthly client feedback to improve the project.
- Assisted over 20 associates including psychologists, actors and subject matter experts to ensure the course is delivered to a high standard. This included venue liaison, accommodation and travel arrangement and ad-hoc administrative assistance.
- Simultaneously performed the same role with a number of smaller projects across such verticals as banking, local government and technology. These projects ranged from specific functional training courses to wider change management and communication workshops.
Administrative Assistant - January 2015 - October 2015
- Assisted with the delivery of the aforementioned course.
- This included calendar organisation, venue liaison, travel and accommodation coordination. and providing ad-hoc administrative support.
Facilities Assistant - November 2014 - January 2015
- Performed reception duties.
- Organised internal and external events.
- Maintained office facilities.
- Managed inbound post.
- Liaised with maintenance staff.
