Kirsti Perera

Level 2: Information, Advice or Guidance

• Executive Assistant to the CEO of a prominent not-for-profit trade association in renewable energy
• Coordinate all appointments, including meetings with MPs and high-level stakeholders
• Manage monthly Town Hall meetings and the Board by compiling board packs, creating presentation decks, and noting action items
• Oversee inbox management, organise speaking engagements and event invitations, and ensure all travel and logistics are planned with foresight and precision
• Provide line management for the Office Coordinator by offering support and daily guidance
• Assist the Executive Leadership team with projects, events, and travel for meetings

• Part-time EA to CEO and Board at Regional LGBTQ youth homelessness charity
• Support with diary management
• Minuting and coordinating Committee and Board prep
• Ad hoc PA support to the wider team
• Part-time EA to CEO and Board at Regional LGBTQ youth homelessness charity

• Supporting the Chief Executive Group at a regional charity
• Organising Trustee Board meetings using Admin Control to distribute agendas, minutes and papers
• Liaised with other departments to maintain smooth flow of information across the organisation.

• Personal Assistant to 5 Vice Presidents

• Increased project efficiency through strategic support to Global CIO and IT leadership team
• Coordinated diaries/travel/accommodation across different time zones/cultures
• Cultivated strong guest and stakeholder relationships
• Generated Global CIO Report, ensuring smooth flow of project information
• Produced POs/requisitions in complex SAP system
• Ensured timely payment of invoices; worked closely with procurement/accounts payable

• June 2016 – May 2017 contracts including Channel 4 & Arcadia Group
• Sep 2014 – Aug 2015 Bain & Company, HSBC, TES.COM

• Company Overview: Work placement whilst starting a Masters in Social Work through Goldsmiths University, London
• Working alongside the senior social worker to implement care plans for young people aged between 13–18
• Co-facilitating the Social Skills and Action Group as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Supporting young people with leaving care plans, accessing and maximising income, working with the Children's Act 1989 /2004 to optimise opportunity and welfare
• Work placement whilst starting a Masters in Social Work through Goldsmiths University, London

• Company Overview: Prolific Priority Offender Support Worker
• Assessing the needs of referred clients and planning and delivering programmes related to mental health, fitness, smoking, substance misuse, bullying, social inclusion, tenancy sustainment, employment, training, education, meaningful use of time
• Working with clients to draft and implement realistic support plans and risk assessments to ensure they receive an individual package of support that meets their needs
• Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, sitting on panel with other statutory organisations
• Delivering regular advice sessions to probation clients as required to give high quality housing and related advice during advice sessions, picking up short intervention cases as necessary to complete referrals to other agencies
• Proactively liaising, communicating and negotiating with internal and external specialists and external agencies in order to maximise client support services, resources and funding
• Assisting clients to develop life skills and participate in meaningful occupation and education and training activities to promote increased independence and involvement with the community
• Delivering programmes via a range of methods including peer mentoring, discussions, arts-based projects, community/environmental projects, group/individual activities
• Prolific Priority Offender Support Worker

• Company Overview: Oenders Support Worker
• Supporting RSI clients referred through Clearing House to sustain tenancies across 5 West London boroughs after a period of entrenched homelessness
• Carrying a case load of 20 clients with medium to high support needs
• Key working around issues predominantly related to substance misuse and mental health, supporting clients to live independent lives
• Maintaining and developing links with the community and signposting to partner organisations
• Providing emotional and practical support
• Encouraging clients to consider moving into ETE
• Attending CPA meetings and advocating on behalf of my clients
• Working with Look Ahead to develop their Social Inclusion initiative
• Promoting customer involvement
• Keeping confidential and detailed files in line with Look Ahead's policy and statutory requirements
• Carrying out assessments, risk assessments, joint assessments, compiling support plans and reviewing these on a regular basis
• Key working temporarily in Look Ahead hostels around Central London
• Oenders Support Worker

• Company Overview: Floating Support Worker
• Key working clients with complex needs including; Asylum Seekers, Dual Diagnosis, Physical & Emotional Disabilities, Families, Young People
• Drawing up support plans, risk assessments and conducting reviews on a 3–6 month basis and creating an exit strategy for withdrawal
• Carrying out joint assessments
• Visiting service users in their homes regularly to assess their progress
• Knowledge of the sources of funding and processes involved in arranging aids and adaptations for people who are physically disabled
• A sound understanding of the welfare benefits system
• Floating Support Worker