Henry Onwuemene
Wolverhampton
Summary
A Safety-focused professional with over 5 years of experience adept at shadowing senior team members to increase skillset. Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of professional field and keeps alert to current practices to successfully engage and influence management and employee representatives to adopt new processes and procedures.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Healthcare Assistant/Support Worker
Midway Care Group
11.2023 - Current
- Assisting clients with exploring hobbies or new interests
- Working with clients to manage risk, plan goals and implement support services
- Assisting with personal care and household tasks, such as cleaning, doing laundry, planning meals and cooking
- Some basic medical care, including dressing wounds, administering medication and performing first aid, as required
- Working closely and collaboratively with clients to explore their needs, put support in place and create opportunities to enhance their well being and growth
- Supporting clients with finding or starting a new job
- Keeping detailed records of activities performed and the client’s progress.
- Supported patients with day-to-day wellbeing, including washing, dressing, feeding and medication administration.
- Ensured H&S regulations were adhered to at all times, and COVID policies were practised.
- Guaranteed that service users' confidentiality was maintained and respected.
- Helped service users with cooking, cleaning, shopping and other domestic duties, promoting independence.
Child Care Assistant
Lifeways Group
12.2022 - Current
- Assisted and taught children basic care needs, including toileting, washing, feeding and bathing.
- Closely monitored child movements, ensuring children stayed safe and free from hazards.
- Ensured the well-being, safety and security of the children by meticulously monitoring all actions and behaviours.
- Monitored and recorded children's development for reporting and communicating to parents.
- Assisted with preparing, serving and feeding meals for children as required.
- Used soothing music and a calming approach when putting children to sleep during naptime.
- Assisting in planning and implementing creative, engaging and inspiring play curriculums to stimulate children's interest in learning.
- Planned, assisted and participated in all playtime activities, creating to enhance child learning development and wellbeing.
- Supported cognitive development by facilitating games, simple lessons and structured play.
- Monitored and supported children during meal times, helping to prepare food, feed children and maintain exemplary table manners.
- Led children to clear up after activities to maintain clean, safe and orderly environment.
- Promoted physical, emotional and social development through well-planned activities.
- Kept children safe and secure by supervising activities and removing dangerous objects.
- Facilitated activities to enhance motor skills, including group games, art activities and outside play.
- Monitored children's interactions with others, encouraging sharing and cooperation in safe environment.
- Maintained accurate records of development and learning journeys, sharing with parents and carers to support wellbeing.
- Promoted social, emotional and physical development of children, encouraging learning through supervised play.
- Supervised and cared for children, displaying storytelling and rapport-building skills to maintain interest and engagement.
- Followed strict safeguarding policies and procedures, maintaining health and safety of children and staff.
- Taught children basic life skills to encourage independence.
- Completed and maintained paperwork for activities or incidents within nursery premises.
- Identified kids with special needs and provided additional support to develop skills and abilities.
- Cleaned toys and equipment and helped change baby nappies, maintaining safe and hygienic environment.
- Assisted school-age children learn numeracy and language with homework or projects.
- Raised behavioural concerns with parents to understand triggers and devised action plans for preventing repeated incidents.
Health and Safety Officer
Crown Flour Mill
10.2020 - 09.2022
- Develop and implement company-wide safety procedures to ensure compliance with OSHA regulations and minimize safety hazards in the workplace
- Conduct regular safety audits and inspections to identify potential risks and provide recommendations for corrective actions
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create and deliver effective safety training programs for employees
- Conduct accident investigations and root cause analysis to identify the cause of incidents and implement preventive measures
- Manage and mentor a team of safety coordinators to ensure compliance with safety policies and procedures
- Organized safety cultural programs (world day for safety, Hazard hunt competition) onsite to improve safety and formed emergency response team for likely medical, chemical and fire emergencies
- Reduced first Aid cases by 80% and reduced LTI and MTC by 99%
- Ensured risk assessments were conducted for all non-routine activities onsite with workers' participation.
- Supported the communication and promotion of occupational health initiatives to managers and employees in the organization.
- Decreased potential risks by identifying hazards, recording findings and following up on changes made.
- Identified root causes of issues, completing investigation reports and following up on outcomes.
- Ensured requirements such as welfare, risk assessments and construction phase plans were in place by conducting daily check-ins.
- Conducted regular inspections and interviews to determine workers follow usage of PPE, preventing health and safety anomalies.
- Conducted refresher trainings to enable managers and workers to comprehend legislation requirements and assess hazards.
- Assisted in developing training sessions for workforces, creating based on policy updates, enhanced safety procedures and improvements needed.
- Reviewed and assessed plans of subcontractors to determine compliance of health and safety standards.
- Conducted risk assessments on company procedures, operations and machines, assessing safety hazards for prompt improvement.
- Promptly intervened and rectified unsafe acts carried out within workplace to strengthen security and promote protective measures.
- Scheduled meetings to discuss and verify health and safety concerns, addressing best practises and quality standards.
- Attended safety functionality briefings to comprehend risk entailed and mitigation procedures.
- Conducted site inspections to determine hazard-free environment and potential danger, eliminating health and safety risks.
- Informed authorities regarding incidents to address emergency situations, adhering to mandated health and safety laws and regulations.
- Investigated accidents occurred in area to determine cause, improve overall risk management and prevent similar occurrences in future.
Assistant Chef
Shanghai Bakers Nig. LTD
07.2018 - 08.2020
- Assisted head chef in cooking African dishes according to ingredients.
- Cleaned kitchen work area by sanitizing all cooking equipment, utensils and counters.
- Stored food safely and orderly in freezer and refrigerator.
- Checked food inventory and ordered ingredients.
- Managed food preparation activities, such as cutting ingredients to size and preparing sauces and garnishes.
- Trained new kitchen staff on proper food handling and preparation techniques.
- Verified food temperatures and quality ahead of service to maintain standards.
- Replenished food and ingredients supplies to meet service demand.
- Followed recipes and instructions to achieve quality and presentation standards.
- Prepared and cooked quality African meals in high-volume, fast-paced service environments.
- Prepped ingredients ahead of time to increase cooking and service speed.
- Received delivered, sorted produce and stored supplies quickly to maintain quality and condition.
- Supported senior chefs with creative meal planning and recipe development.
- Cleaned and oiled kitchen equipment to maintain optimized function.
- Wrapped, dated, and stored food in refrigerators under standardized temperature for future uses.
- Prevented cross-contamination from utensils, surfaces, and pans when cooking and plating meals for food allergy sufferers.
- Interacted with guests to obtain feedback on product quality and service levels.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Estate Management
Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Anambra, Nigeria2008
GCSEs - Arts
Government Science Secondary School, Tungamaje
Suleja, Nigeria2000
Skills
- Report Creating
- IT Proficient
- Detailed Reporting
- Policy and Procedure Implementation
- Hazardous Trend Identification
- Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement
- Safety Hazard Assessing
- Training and Development
- Health and Safety Compliance
- Manual Handling Training
- Hazard Management and Investigation
- Inspections
- Risk Analysis and Assessments
- Incident Management
- Vendor Relations
- Business Management
- Cost Control
- Resource Management
- Menu development
- Purchasing
- Meal Preparation
- Forecasting and planning
- Food safety and sanitation
- Recipes and menu planning
- Hospitality service expertise
- Food plating and presentation
Affiliations
- ISO 45001:2018 (IRCA) (CQI) HSE Lead Auditor Certificate, 2022.
- National Examination Board in Occupational and Health, 2022.
- HSE competency level 3 (supervisory) course – Institute of Safety Professionals of Nigeria (ISPON)
- General Health Safety and Environment Course – Institute of Safety Professionals of Nigeria (ISPON)
Timeline
Healthcare Assistant/Support Worker
Midway Care Group
11.2023 - Current
Child Care Assistant
Lifeways Group
12.2022 - Current
Health and Safety Officer
Crown Flour Mill
10.2020 - 09.2022
Assistant Chef
Shanghai Bakers Nig. LTD
07.2018 - 08.2020
Bachelor of Science - Estate Management
Nnamdi Azikiwe University
GCSEs - Arts
Government Science Secondary School, Tungamaje
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