Passenger Assistant - Essex County Council
(2013-01)
Supporting children, with a wide range of learning, behavioural and health challenges, during their travel to school.
- Collecting the children from home in the morning, greeting them and making sure that they feel at ease.
- Ensuring that children are safely secured within the vehicles
- Communicating with children using non-verbal techniques (sign language, flash cards)
- Collecting children from school, calming them and ensuring that they get home safely
Cook & Kitchen Assistant - Highfield Court, Colchester - Colchester
(2013-01)
Working in the kitchens at an independent living unit.
- Preparing and cooking meals for residents (twenty people of varying ages and with different health challenges), with every meal being freshly prepared
- Ensuring that meals conform to each resident's dietary guidelines and allergies
- Ensuring that portion size guidelines are followed
- Washing up the crockery and cutlery, using an industrial dishwasher as appropriate
- Setting up tables for the clients' meals
- Keeping the kitchen clean and tidy, adhering to all relevant health and safety policies
- Serving clients with meals and drinks and then clearing the tables afterwards
- Handling any queries or issues raised by the clients
- Stock management (checking supply levels/dates etc. and making phone calls to order additional stock as required)
- Ensuring that food orders are kept within the agreed budget
- Checking and recording the temperatures of all meals and of fridges, freezers etc.
Cleaner - Hazelmere Junior School
(1998-01 - 2012-12)
Ensuring that all rooms within the school were kept clean, hygienic and tidy.
- Cleaning classrooms, toilets, assembly hall and other common areas
- Sweeping and mopping floors
- Cleaning sinks and toilets, using appropriate chemicals and methods
- Hoovering carpets
- Cleaning chairs and tables, handling a variety of stains etc. as appropriate
Cleaner - Asher Prior Bates, Colchester - Colchester
(1998-01 - 2010-12)
Keeping a solicitors' office spotlessly tidy, ensuring that it was always a welcoming place for clients to visit.
- Hoovering carpets and sweeping/mopping floors
- Dusting desks and blinds
- Cleaning telephones and keyboards
- Waste management (emptying bins etc.)
- Cleaning washrooms/toilets
- Adhering to all relevant Health and Safety regulations (including displaying signs etc.)
- Key holder duties (setting alarms and locking up on completion of my cleaning)
