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Laura Jeffery

London

Summary

Experienced systemic practitioner with a strong background in trauma and child development. Expertise in understanding serious youth violence and it's impacts on both children and adults.

Proficient in safeguarding children and risk management planning, ensuring comprehensive, tailored plans suitable to the service user.

Utilises compassionate approach, combined with strong communication and problem-solving skills to foster strong relationships and improve outcomes.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Wellbeing in Schools Hub Practitioner

Royal Borough of Greenwich
London, Greenwich
10.2022 - Current


  • Built strong rapport with families and schools, enhancing trust and cooperation in service delivery.
  • Improved educational outcomes for young people, via systemic, intensive, whole family support and interventions that address the root cause of issues
  • Completed risk management and safety plans
  • Partnership working with wider professional network
  • Advocacy for young person and their family

Custodial Manager

HMPPS
London, Wandsworth
03.2022 - 10.2022
  • Provide day-to-day management of a Residential Unit within a custodial establishment housing 250 prisoners.
  • Manage the work of your staff group to ensure all local and national guidelines, policies and quality standards are implemented and compliant with National Security Framework (NSF) and Local Security Strategy (LSS)
  • Undertake incident management response and Orderly Officer duties, overseeing the establishment in its entirety, including during the night state.
  • Direct line management responsibilities for 19 prison officers and 2 supervising officers. This includes staff performance, development, appraisal and absence management
  • Responsible for incident management, documentation and logging onto the national Incident Reporting System (IRS)


Supervising Officer

HMPPS
London, Wandsworth
03.2021 - 03.2022
  • Provide day to day supervision for Prison Officers and Operational Support Grades on a residential unit within a custodial environment.
  • Supervise and coordinate the delivery of the establishment’s regime and activities within your

unit, ensuring all local/national policies are maintained.

  • Supervised all staff within my area of responsibility, ensuring they were briefed on the work for the day through preparing and delivering team briefings

and handovers

  • Coached and mentored staff, including new recruits whilst also arranging for other staff to provide mentoring support as required
  • Managed a caseload of Assessment Care Custody Teamwork (ACCT)

Prison Officer

HMPPS
London
08.2018 - 03.2021
  • Supervise and support prisoners in a rehabilitative environment, ensuring all services are provided to a high standard and that security and control are maintained at all times, adhering to local and national policies.
  • Act as a Key Worker, developing a mentoring, supporting, encouraging relationship with

identified prisoners.

  • Conducted personal, vehicle and cell searches, external escorts and regime delivery
  • Assisted in rewriting my units regime delivery plan to address identified substance misuse issues

Regional Director

Challenger Sports
Los Angeles, California
10.2013 - 10.2017
  • 1 of 2 primary sales people with a revenue target of $1.2 million.
  • Responsible for selling and marketing soccer programs to youth organisations to hit seasonal targets and increase revenue streams,
  • Client customer service and staff management of a team of 30
  • Successfully prospected to identify new clients to reach office target of 15% yearly growth
  • Budget management through P&L statements, sales tracking and reporting
  • Staff training and management for Account Managers; including sales days, lead generating and systems support
  • Staff recruitment and placement for up to 80 staff members, including staff

management and scheduling

Education

Bachelor of Science - Sports Science

Brunel University London
Uxbridge
09.2010 - 06.2013

Skills

  • Trained systemic practitioner
  • Risk management and safety planning
  • Program management
  • Compassion focused relationship building
  • Staff management
  • Strong communication skills

Certification

  • Trained systemic practitioner
  • Attachment, trauma and child development
  • Understanding serious youth violence
  • Mental health: Working Together to Safeguard the Child and Adult
  • Child Protection
  • Assessing and Supporting Parenting Capacity
  • Safeguarding conversations with children and parents
  • Unconscious Bias & Cultural Competence in Safeguarding Children
  • Risk management planning
  • Intrafamilial sexual abuse
  • HMPPS Trauma and Risk Management Practitioner

Timeline

Wellbeing in Schools Hub Practitioner

Royal Borough of Greenwich
10.2022 - Current

Custodial Manager

HMPPS
03.2022 - 10.2022

Supervising Officer

HMPPS
03.2021 - 03.2022

Prison Officer

HMPPS
08.2018 - 03.2021

Regional Director

Challenger Sports
10.2013 - 10.2017

Bachelor of Science - Sports Science

Brunel University London
09.2010 - 06.2013
  • Trained systemic practitioner
  • Attachment, trauma and child development
  • Understanding serious youth violence
  • Mental health: Working Together to Safeguard the Child and Adult
  • Child Protection
  • Assessing and Supporting Parenting Capacity
  • Safeguarding conversations with children and parents
  • Unconscious Bias & Cultural Competence in Safeguarding Children
  • Risk management planning
  • Intrafamilial sexual abuse
  • HMPPS Trauma and Risk Management Practitioner
Laura Jeffery