Nicola Murphy

Well-presented, organised, and conscientious individual who desires to work in a challenging and exciting role, to further experience and career. Demonstrates excellent customer service skills and can think and act on feet. Extensive knowledge and experience working with children, young people, and adults with mental health difficulties.

Worked at a SEN school for two years as an autism base lead with children with complex needs, as well as working with their families in outreach to help family members who also had learning difficulties, providing them with therapeutic interventions and help with signposting and referrals.

Exploitation family Practitioner - Barnardo's

(2023-08)

Strengthening families through direct work.

• Developed and rolled out a six-session reduce the risk of exploitation of direct work.
• Multiagency working to create a collaborative therapeutic way of working.
• Weekly meetings attended for children in need, child protection, local contextual safeguarding, and CORE groups- ensuring the child's voice is heard.
• Advance IT skills in recording secure information, in children's services.
• Level 2 police security approved.

Trainer and outreach - Barnardo's

(2025-02)

• Delivering in-person and online training to the police commissioners, NHS staff, hotels, licensing, schools, and colleges.
• Creating new training presentations.
• Contacting professionals to organise mandatory/voluntary training sessions on exploitation.
• Organising stalls, pricing, and budgeting for events and stock.

Personal Assistant - Dudley Children's Services

(2022-09)

PA to a 7-year-old boy who has Down syndrome, PDA, and Autism. A non-speaking child for whom PECS is used to communicate. Contracted through Dudley Children's Services to do direct payments for 4 hours per week.

• Full personal care.
• Collect him from his special education school each week and have him on a 1-1 basis, taking him to the park, swimming, and SEN sessions at a local centre.
• Take care of all his needs and have on several occasions put him to bed whilst the family is out with his siblings.

1–1 SEN TA at a mainstream primary school - Cert Solutions Agency

(2021-03 - 2023-07)

• Setting work out daily to be completed due to the young person not being on the national curriculum.
• Setting strict boundaries within the classroom to quickly de-escalate the highly aggressive behaviour portrayed by the young person.
• Developing strategies to work with the young person who has ASD and ADHD and is highly anxious and portrays separation issues.
• Working with speech and language therapists, behavioural therapists, and many other professionals to further his care and progress within school.

Support Worker - Wrixon Care Services

(2019-04 - 2021-04)

• Secure transports with young people from secure units to court/hospital/supervision centres.
• Hospital bed watches.
• Extra support in residential settings.
• Unit support in several secure units across the UK. Supporting staff within the unit, building relationships with the young people and maintaining the security of the unit itself.
• Home support with complex mental health needs and extreme behaviour issues, which results in working with all emergency services and mental health teams across the UK.
• Appropriate adult services within custodial settings.
• 24/7 supervision.
• Writing and reviewing legal documentation such as PER forms (Person escort record), DOLS orders (Deprivation of liberties), and secure order forms.
• Working closely with social workers, police officers, and court staff, and working within police stations and magistrates'/crown courts.

Bartley Green Technology College

Bachelors degree - Child and adolescent mental health - Birmingham College of Food

Foundation degree - Child and Adolescent Mental Health