Summary
Overview
Work history
Education
Skills
Additional Information
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Joanne Love

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Summary

I have experience in a variety of roles such as childcare, working with children and young people with a variety of needs, management skills

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience

Work history

Babysitter

Childcare.co.uk
05.2018 - Current

Doing activities with the children while they are awake

Assisting with changing into their bed time wear, cleaning teeth, bathing, reading stories before they go to sleep

Support worker

UKCIL
Leeds
10.2022 - 08.2025

Creating activities for children and young people with disabilities tailored to their needs

Going out into the local community

Left due to wanting to move onto new challenges with a work/life balance

Rainbows volunteer helper

Girl guiding
Kirkstall, Leeds
05.2017 - 08.2023

Assisting leaders to help girls ages 4 -7 play games, craft activities,

Going out into the local community and places of interest

Assisting with sleep overs

Left due to taking on a paid role with UKCIL

Live-Out nanny

Donna Hall
Leeds
05.2017 - 03.2020

Looked after a 9 month old baby and then her newborn sister

Doing age appropriate activities, going out to places of interest, reading stories, singing songs

Light housework while the children were napping

Reporting back to parents on their day

Left due to national lockdown

Level 3 nursery nurse

Bright Horizons Ltd
Leeds
08.2013 - 06.2014

Assisting room leaders with 0-4 year olds

Age appropriate play indoors and outdoors

Identifying concerns in developmental delay and reporting back to the SENCO

Reporting any other concerns back to room leaders and management

Left due to wanting to concentrate on my health issues due to rushing back into work

Nursery officer

Advantage social care agency
Dewsbury
01.2006 - 03.2007

Assisting management to plan activities tailored to all ages groups

Supervising indoor and outdoor play

Helping with health and safety issues along with safeguarding

Supervising student nursery nurses to ensure they were reaching their full potential and speaking with their tutors

Left due to being diagnosed with a brain tumour requiring operations

Deputy crèche manager

Family service unit
Leeds
07.2003 - 12.2005

Working for Leeds City Council with half of the children coming from the local community and half being families known to social services and looking after their children while social workers gave their parents lessons in life skills

Reporting concerns to the manager

Organising themed months, doing display work and activities centred around it

Left due to the council withdrawing funding from the service

Agency worker

Reed social care
Leeds
10.1998 - 07.2003

Working in a variety of nurseries and social care settings including school nurseries, children's centres, private day nurseries, with children who were homeless, with children who were asylum seekers, assisted living units for children with learning disabilities, respite units, children in the care of local authorities, children who had been parts of paedophile rings, children who had witnessed domestic violence, young adults with disabilities in day centres and residential units, 1 to 1 and 2 to 1 support for children with disabilities, brain injuries, challenging behaviour or mental health issues throughout West Yorkshire

Left due to being offered a permanent role at one place to fit around my son's school hours

Support care worker

Thames and Chillon Trust
Leeds
07.1997 - 07.1998

Working with young adults with physical disabilities and mild learning disabilities doing a variety of tasks such as budget management, shopping, going to places of interest and leisure

Reporting concerns to management

Left due to pregnancy

Education

Btec national diploma in nursery nursing - Childcare

Thomas Danby college of further education
Leeds
07.1996

Skills

Caring and nurturing

Non judgemental and empathetic

Keen to learn new skills and experiences

Transferable skills

Working as part of a team or solo using my initiative

Pragmatic approach if problems arise to solve them

Additional Information

I am wanting to do either bank,temporary or part time work to provide the work life balance I require

I was diagnosed with a benign brain tumour in 2007 which has required multiple surgeries, speech therapy, occupational therapy and I had to take 7 years off to recuperate . This health scare has made me have a different and more positive outlook on life. I take anticonvulsant medication as a precaution so unfortunately I don't drive but I have either got public transport or walked in every job I have had as special adjustments have been made for this so I am not discriminated against. for having an invisible disability.

Affiliations

  • I love live music, festivals and travelling in the UK and Europe. I enjoy reading biographies and autobiographies.

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Support worker

UKCIL
10.2022 - 08.2025

Babysitter

Childcare.co.uk
05.2018 - Current

Rainbows volunteer helper

Girl guiding
05.2017 - 08.2023

Live-Out nanny

Donna Hall
05.2017 - 03.2020

Level 3 nursery nurse

Bright Horizons Ltd
08.2013 - 06.2014

Nursery officer

Advantage social care agency
01.2006 - 03.2007

Deputy crèche manager

Family service unit
07.2003 - 12.2005

Agency worker

Reed social care
10.1998 - 07.2003

Support care worker

Thames and Chillon Trust
07.1997 - 07.1998

Btec national diploma in nursery nursing - Childcare

Thomas Danby college of further education
Joanne Love