Kiyah Ako-Hirst
Croydon,City of London
Summary
Friendly youth leader with experience helping young people more confident and to have fun whilst also reaching their potential through outreach work and mentoring. Engaged in the customers happiness and the services they need.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Summer camp assistant
ASKI
Croydon, City of London
2023.07 - 2024.08
- Helped children with creating and maintaining healthy habits such as exercise.
- Encouraged creativity and individuality by creating an age-appropriate learning environment e.g. activities such as making art pieces and other stimulating activities.
- Reported on daily activities, recording behaviour and safety incidents to document actions taken.
- Improved physical, mental and social wellbeing of participants by ensuring well-rounded mixture of activities such as local visits to parks.
- Accompanied children on trips to learning environments such as museums and workshops also with a mixture of fun activities such as swimming, bowling and going to the cinema.
- Engaged with the children to prompt social interactions and build confidence in themselves with there interactions to create bonds with other participants and members.
Christmas Half-term scheme
ASKI
Croydon, City of London
2022.12 - 2022.12
- Developed new or modified existing routines to avoid injuries.
- Modelled ideal techniques and movements to help understanding.
- Built positive relationships with young people and carers to maintain welcoming youth club environments.
- Integrated warm up and cool down routine at session start and end.
- Recruited core group to develop and manage programmes.
- Organised community service projects to increase self-confidence for youth.
- Demonstrated safe equipment use for minimised risk of injury or damage.
Education
GCSEs - English Lit and Language, Maths, Combined science, Art, Drama, Classical civilisation, R.S
Old Palace of John Whitgift School
Croydon 2018.09 - 2025.07
Skills
- Hospitality services
- Safety rule enforcement
- Guest services
- Team building
- Problem-solving
- Time management
- Communication skills
- Customer-focused
- Organised
- Table service
- Safe food handling
- Upbeat, outgoing and positive
Affiliations
- Reading
- Music/Singing
- Drama/Theatre
- Art and Fashion
Timeline
Summer camp assistant
ASKI
2023.07 - 2024.08
Christmas Half-term scheme
ASKI
2022.12 - 2022.12
GCSEs - English Lit and Language, Maths, Combined science, Art, Drama, Classical civilisation, R.S
Old Palace of John Whitgift School
2018.09 - 2025.07