Overview
Work history
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Walking, reading and spending time with family
Timeline
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Cherie Wilkins

Eastleigh,Hampshire

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work history

Private carer

Self-employed
Eastleigh, Hampshire
2010.03 - Current
  • Implemented personalised care plans aimed at enhancing the quality of life for those under my supervision.
  • Demonstrated understanding and patience whilst dealing with challenging behaviours, maintaining positive interactions with clients at all times.
  • Managed emergency situations swiftly, ensuring safety of client during crises.

Education

NVQ Level 3 - Health and Social care (Adults)

Family Mosaics Skills Centre
Southampton
2013-06

City and Guilds - Catering and hotel services

Swindon catering college
Swindon
1981-04

Skills

  • Palliative care experience
  • Dementia care training
  • Bathing and dressing assistance
  • Adaptable to changing routines
  • Ethical practice
  • Transportation service provision
  • Sensitivity to client needs
  • Use of medical equipment
  • Domestic duties fulfilment
  • Nutritional planning
  • Respect for diversity
  • Communication with doctors
  • Infection control practice
  • Nutritional planning capacity
  • Mental strength
  • Comforting presence
  • Disability care knowledge
  • Health literacy
  • Calm under pressure
  • Basic life support
  • Dementia care
  • Medication Administration
  • Food preparation
  • Meal preparation
  • Genuine companionship
  • Elderly couple support
  • Appointment coordinating
  • Hoist operation
  • Elderly care expertise
  • Lone Working Awareness
  • Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression (PMVA) knowledge
  • Caring and compassionate
  • Handling of people proficiency
  • Personal hygiene assistance
  • Wheelchair transportation
  • Split shift home care
  • Stroke assistance
  • Nutritious meal preparation
  • Client showering
  • Patient record keeping
  • Mobility assistance
  • Meal assistance and feeding
  • Client health checks
  • Toileting and personal care
  • Management of Actual and Potential Aggression (MAPA) proficiency
  • Wound care and infection control
  • Toileting support
  • Confidentiality maintenance
  • Adult care
  • Physical disability expertise
  • UTI medication administration
  • Crisis Intervention
  • Single-handed care
  • Adult first aid
  • Compassionate care
  • Eating and drinking assistance
  • Detailed health record-keeping
  • Meal cooking
  • Patient advocacy
  • Waking night shifts
  • Hoisting and mobility aids
  • Client budgeting
  • Tact and diplomacy
  • Bathing support
  • Linen washing and changing
  • Meal and snack preparation
  • Medical observations and management
  • Domestic cleaning
  • First Aid
  • Patient safeguarding
  • Dementia awareness
  • Patient transport
  • Medicine administration
  • Care plan management
  • Care planning
  • Client record management
  • First aid training
  • Domestic assistance
  • Feeding assistance

Accomplishments

I have supported clients to access the community and join in activities they wouldn't normally do . Supported clients to go to college and increase their confidence.

Walking, reading and spending time with family

I love reading and going for walks around my area with family and friends.  I love spending time with my grandchildren.

Timeline

Private carer

Self-employed
2010.03 - Current

NVQ Level 3 - Health and Social care (Adults)

Family Mosaics Skills Centre

City and Guilds - Catering and hotel services

Swindon catering college
Cherie Wilkins