Justine Porter

• Created and now oversee the school's Pastoral Care & Support Hub - providing a dedicated safe space for pupils requiring emotional support or a space to regulate.
• Provide 1:1 and targeted group support and build key relationships with pupils and their families.
• Monitor and identify emerging needs or trends in pupil wellbeing, raising concerns with senior pastoral staff.
• Working in partnership with external agencies and community support to enhance the lives of pupils and their families.

• Responsible for implementation of Dundee's Attainment Challenge and Community Mental Health & Wellbeing framework at Morgan Academy.
• Worked within wider pupil support team to provide intervention to improve emotional health and wellbeing outcomes for targeted young people.
• Main roles included: providing 1-1 support to targeted pupils across range of mental health and emotional wellbeing needs, planning and facilitating group sessions focused on variety of related issues, plan and facilitate 'Healthy Minds' program to all junior school PSE classes.

• Working with young people aged 12-18 providing support and education around a wide range of issues and topics relating to health and wellbeing including: drugs, alcohol, sexual health, relationships, parenthood and mental health.
• Main responsibilities were: 1-1 work with young people, developing and delivering a wide range of groups and peer education programs and delivering focused education sessions across the community to both young people and adults.

In this voluntary role, assisted in the development and facilitation of group sessions with young people who are affected by family substance use.

Working within the finance department with responsibilities for: indexing all incoming mail, inputting customer details onto various systems, dealing with payment errors, handling and running various reports and receiving public inquiries.

This fast paced role involved ensuring customers were given an exceptional service throughout the day, costing and invoicing the necessary services, then ensuring that the customer understood and was happy with the work once completed.

Provided weekly visits to a socially isolated member of the local community in order to help combat loneliness and enhance wellbeing.