Residential Children's Support Worker - Fair Tree Group - Basildon, Essex
(2025-09)
- Delivered exceptional care for children, ensuring their physical and emotional wellbeing at all times.
- Improved self-confidence in children by consistently providing positive reinforcement and encouragement.
- Built positive relationships with children and young people.
- Actively listened and understood individual needs.
- Communicated effectively with families, social workers, teachers, and healthcare professionals and other professionals.
- Wrote clear reports and maintaining accurate records.
- Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
- Quickly learned and applied new skills to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
- Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
- Followed safeguarding policies and procedures.
Live-out Nanny - Self employed - Laindon Hills, Essex
(2024-11 - 2025-07)
- Adhered to safety guidelines preventing accidents or injuries.
- Fostered creative and educational play by incorporating age-appropriate activities.
- Performed light housekeeping duties related to child's needs.
- Provided safe and nurturing environment for children in my care.
Nursery Nurse - First Class Day Nursery - Essex
(2021-03 - 2024-11)
I completed my level 2 at a nursery and my duties here include -Cleaning up (washing up, tidying, maintaining equipment) -Preparing snacks and dinners following hygiene policies -Dealing with challenging behavior -Paperwork - handling accidents
- Supported children to identify and manage their feelings and behaviours.
- Provided kind, encouraging environments for children to learn and explore, aiding educational and social development.
- Facilitated Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) learning and play.
- Planned and led engaging activities for small groups of young children.
- Maintained consistently safe environments through diligent risk management in line with nursery guidelines.
- Wrote up regular activity and observations reports, monitoring children's progress and development.
- Encouraged children to share and communicate with peers to boost social development.
- Regularly utilised multi-tasking expertise to ensure multiple children's needs were effectively met.
- Demonstrated awareness of children's cultural background, disabilities and medical histories.
- Closely monitored child wellbeing, regularly updating parents to assure continued safety and security.
- Promoted internal policies, external legislation and regulatory guidelines.
- Cared for emotional and social support needs to provide holistic care.
- Established and maintained positive relationships with parents, carers and nursery staff.
- Prepared nutritional snacks to cater to individual dietary needs.
Front of House Team Member - Stone gate Pubs - Basildon, Essex
(2022-09 - 2023-01)
- Maintained attractive, clean and orderly spaces, creating a welcoming atmosphere for customers.
- Greeted customers warmly and professionally on arrival, promptly directing to allocated tables.
- Elevated guest experiences by delivering tailored, personalised customer service.
- Attentively took orders, guiding customers on menu choices, allergy advice and chef recommendations.
- Prepared lobby areas for guest use, maintaining clean, comfortable reception environments.
- Collaborated across team to achieve productivity and efficiency.
- Managed customer-related issues following company policies and procedures.
- Served high volumes of guests in fast-paced service environments with exceptional customer care.
- Used appropriate sanitising and cleaning products to maintain hygienic kitchen and food preparation areas.
- Managed restaurant closing duties, from cleaning dining areas to cashing up tills.
- Served meals and drinks with professionalism and skill, maintaining high presentation and quality standards.