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Franklyn Bonnick

Birmingham,West Midlands

Summary

Talented Support Worker focused on improving client lives through high-quality support and patient instruction. Proficient in life, financial and social skills, helping clients integrate into community and live more robust lives. Creative and empathetic assistant with 4 years of experience building community and developing social skills through incremental therapeutic techniques.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
11
11
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Adult Lead Worker/Complex/General service

St Phillips Hagley Road/Trident House
2022.11 - Current
  • Working with vulnerable adults providing early and targeted support to aid the recovery and resilience of single adults or childless with multiple vulnerabilities working flexibly across the city supporting people in their own homes.
  • Undertake effective needs and risk assessments
  • Support customers to sustain accommodation, improve health, well-being outcomes, develop skills required to live independently, including offering practical support, maximising income, budgeting, addressing debt.
  • Act as a community navigator, linking customers into local services and activities to establish networks of support and reduce social isolation.
  • Work in collaboration with key agencies such as housing, health and substance misuse services and act as an advocate
  • Develop co-produced, outcome focused support plans that reflect each customer’s personal strengths, goals and aspirations.
  • Support customers to access employment, education, and training opportunities, attending appointments, events, ensuring safeguarding are in line with policies and procedures.
  • Ensure individual’s details are entered onto the case management system promptly and accurate records are maintained.
  • Proactively support customers to understand move-on options, access move on pathways and provide re-settlement support.

Support worker / Complex needs service

Trident Reach / Hanwood House-Birmingham
Birmingham, West Midlands
2022.05 - 2022.11

· Supported temporary accommodation for complex needs/(Men)over 25. Regular Support sessions with customers.

· Well-being checks

· Building checks.

· Taking referrals/Risk assessments

· Taking calls/making calls to other services/agencies

· Inspect checks/empty voids

· Weekly room/flats checks

· Daily Email checks

· Enter customer action on inform Shift handovers.

· Report repairs to maintenance (Housing team)

· Fire drills/Fire safety checks

· Support customers with variable needs.

· The job role can vary as you can be many roles as one/ mentor, peacemaker, counselling, a friend.

· The job can be challenging, and no days are the same! You have days when it can hectic, busy, quiet. Active listening is a must! And to be empathetic, tolerance and patience and respect which has to work both ways.

· Goals/Action is getting them the right help via support agencies/services/this can range from care support, alcohol/drugs addiction, anger management courses, job training, education courses, community activities etc.

· Also is helping them move on to suitable accommodation for independent lives.

Tenant support worker

Xyrius Training Limited/RK Housing-Birmingham
2020.09 - 2020.11
  • Help support vulnerable residents with various needs/issues/conditions
  • Engage with residents to gain trust
  • Support sessions /Action planning/Budgeting /Service Referrals
  • Rooms checks/repairs/hazards/welfare checks
  • Safety checks/Maintenance
  • Audit checks/files

Facilities Assistant

UP 24/7 Services, Recruitment Agency - Derby
Derby
2018.10 - 2019.06
  • Various temporary roles across Derby such as Post Room Assistant and Facilities Assistant
  • General admin duties, dealing with post, setting up rooms for the company meetings, dealing with maintenance department, replenishing stock equipment, reception duties when required

Warehouse Operative - Bulk location

Connect Distribution Services Limited-Birmingham
2016.10 - 2018.07
  • Moving stock/ items to locations given on the blue label and putting in the correct location into pick bins manually or using a voice man
  • Voice man which has different function/task to choose i.e. to put away/ to put stock away, using reference numbers and digit reference codes and using the phonetic alphabet for locating
  • Also toting stock from stock orders via the computer system/ scanning, entering location on the system before I send it on the truck to the correct pick face location
  • Small bulk pick/ using voice man i.e. voice man gives me movements refs to pick from the stock warehouse
  • General in-house cleaning of location
  • Helping other location when needed

Production Operative/Automotive

Group Antolin/Pertemps Recruitment Agency-Birmingham
2015.06 - 2016.03
  • Working on production facility workstations
  • Fitting components for vehicle interiors (light fitting, air duct, blinds, handles, mirrors)
  • Working on Jaguar and Land rover headliners

Facilities Co-ordinator/Temp

Hays Recruitment agency-Birmingham
2014.03 - 2014.05
  • EMCOR Engineering Services Ltd, Birmingham Library
  • Provide helpdesk service
  • Co-ordination/administration support to site services manager & technicians for the LOB (Library)
  • M&E maintenance contract

Education

A-Level - SIA Training

Enterkey Training
2019.06 - 2019.06

A-Level - OCR NVQ Level 3 Advice and Guidance

Crown Building - East Birmingham Community Forum
2011.11 - 2012.12

NVQ Level 2 - Mentoring

SOVA -Birmingham City Center
2010.11 - 2011.01

BTEC - Graphic Design-Merit(BB)

Matthew Boulton College
2002.01 - 2002.09

A-Level - Computer Applications Level 3 City & Guilds

City College
2001.09 - 2001.12

A-Level - Merits and Distinctions Health and Social care Advanced

Handsworth College
1998.09 - 2001.07

GCSE - Maths C, English B

Ladywood Comprehensive School
1981.09 - 1987.09

Skills

  • Customer Service
  • Customer Support Skills/Experience
  • Warehouse Operative
  • Production
  • Civil servant/Administrative officer
  • Facilities Assistant
  • Help desk/Maintenance Admin
  • Retail/Shelf Stacker/Customer service
  • Tenant Support Worker Training
  • Parcel and Post Operations
  • Volunteer roles
  • Volunteer for food project
  • Support worker/Complex needs
  • Mentoring skills

References

Available on Request

Hobbies and Interests

In my spare time I practice yoga, and keep fit, I also like to travel around England and love spending time with my family. I also love pets and have budgie called Jerry. I also would like to learn different languages and downloading apps to achieve this.

Timeline

Adult Lead Worker/Complex/General service

St Phillips Hagley Road/Trident House
2022.11 - Current

Support worker / Complex needs service

Trident Reach / Hanwood House-Birmingham
2022.05 - 2022.11

Tenant support worker

Xyrius Training Limited/RK Housing-Birmingham
2020.09 - 2020.11

A-Level - SIA Training

Enterkey Training
2019.06 - 2019.06

Facilities Assistant

UP 24/7 Services, Recruitment Agency - Derby
2018.10 - 2019.06

Warehouse Operative - Bulk location

Connect Distribution Services Limited-Birmingham
2016.10 - 2018.07

Production Operative/Automotive

Group Antolin/Pertemps Recruitment Agency-Birmingham
2015.06 - 2016.03

Facilities Co-ordinator/Temp

Hays Recruitment agency-Birmingham
2014.03 - 2014.05

A-Level - OCR NVQ Level 3 Advice and Guidance

Crown Building - East Birmingham Community Forum
2011.11 - 2012.12

NVQ Level 2 - Mentoring

SOVA -Birmingham City Center
2010.11 - 2011.01

BTEC - Graphic Design-Merit(BB)

Matthew Boulton College
2002.01 - 2002.09

A-Level - Computer Applications Level 3 City & Guilds

City College
2001.09 - 2001.12

A-Level - Merits and Distinctions Health and Social care Advanced

Handsworth College
1998.09 - 2001.07

GCSE - Maths C, English B

Ladywood Comprehensive School
1981.09 - 1987.09
Franklyn Bonnick