Elyse Marie Larkins

• Building strong attachments with the families and children and working in partnership with parents, providing daily handovers and general support and guidance.
• Looking after the health and wellbeing of all children in my care such as supporting routines such as mealtimes, sleep and changing nappies and potty training. Safeguarding children, promoting welfare and reporting and being aware of signs of abuse.
• Observing my key children's progress and development. Completing assessments such as development check ins and 2 year checks.
• Helping children to develop knowledge and skills across all seven areas of learning to support development and next steps. Supporting children with school readiness and understanding the world such as teaching them about British Values.
• Having excellent knowledge of the Early Years Foundation Stage and implementing this into the curriculum. For example, providing a safe and enabling environment for the children through outstanding activities/opportunities that promote holistic development.
• Supporting children with positive risk taking, independence and managing emotions. Supporting children with transitions. Supporting children to develop knowledge on nutrition and healthy lifestyles.
• Supporting children with educational disabilities or needs. Communicating with other professionals and teams such as speech and language therapists and the settings SENCO. Supporting children with managing behaviour.

• Being the first port of call for any telephone calls or visitors at that home. This includes answering any queries regarding the residents, staff, training etc.
• Recruiting new staff and completing their inductions.
• Liaising with agency companies for any temporary staff and dealing with any invoices/queries.
• Drafting of Staff Rota's.
• Liaising with the GP Surgeries, Hospitals and external teams with regards to the residents.
• Assisting the Nurses and Management with duties such as registering residents at surgeries, completing GP video calls and organising and booking appointments and transport.
• Staff training.
• Keeping on top of essential paperwork and making sure it is at a sufficient standard for CQC.

• Working as a Barista both making and serving drinks and handling and serving food.
• Serving customers on the till and processing card payments and refunds.
• Opening and closing the café. This included the safe use and storage of chemicals amongst a variety of cleaning and completion of essential paperwork in order to satisfy the EHO and their regulations and standards.
• Stock take and completing wastage paperwork.
• Reporting to senior staff and training new employees on the till, coffee machine and paperwork for closing the café.
• Dealing with any queries with customers and liaising with staff from other departments such as Reception, Parties and Courts.

• Taking telephone calls and supporting with general enquiries regarding the services offered/prices to booking in appointments.
• I worked on a variety of files with dictation and supervision from the Principal Solicitor and Fee Earners. Setting up all new matters, archiving completed matters and invoicing.

Family Matters (Children Matters, Divorce and Financial Matters, Cohabitation Matters)

• Completion of Children Matters and Divorce and Finances paperwork such as C100 Form, D8 Form and Form E.
• Preparation of Court Bundles. Drafting documentation such as an Index to Bundle and Preliminary documents (Statement of Issues, Position Statement and Chronology).

Private Client Matters (Lasting Power of Attorney, Wills)

• Completion of Health and Welfare and Property and Financial Affairs paperwork.
• Taking instructions from the client, drafting the Will/ Mirror Wills and Letter of wishes and handling the final appointment and signing of the original Will.

Probate and Administration of Estates

• Completion of Tax Forms such as IHT205, IHT400 and drafting of Distribution and Estate Account

Property/ Conveyancing (Buying and Selling of Freehold and Leasehold properties, Transfer of Equity, Declaration of Trust)

• Completion of paperwork such as the Draft Contract, Draft Transfer, Exchange of Contracts and drafting the necessary paperwork for the day of completion.