Lee Sandilands

• Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
• Quickly learned and applied new skills to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
• Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
• Supported team by demonstrating respect and willingness to help.
• Worked flexible hours, covering nights, weekends and bank holidays.
• Consistently arrived at work on time and ready to start immediately.
• Improved efficiency and productivity by acquiring new skills.
• Applied critical thinking to analyse problems, evaluate solutions and select best decisions.

• I have been in the role of prison liaisons officer for over 1 year now, I liaise with 3 prisons to facilitate meetings on recovery from alcoholism.
• I have a team of 10 facilitators I co-ordinate on a weekly basis to go into prisons to facilitate meetings.
• Sign post and refer prisoners on release from custody to recovery agencies.
• This is a very rewarding role I have the privilege of being part of for the last year to see how people can want change and to see them actually change for the better.

• I have just completed facilitating 3 weeks of lived experience workshops at the heart of Yorkshire collages. Selby, Castleford, Wakefield.
• I Mentor addicts in recovery to progress back into society and empower them to grow in their personal development and upskill.
• Detached work on the streets of Castleford aimed at young people to support them with diversion activities.
• Supporting young people at community centres with engagement activities.
• Prison outreach to facilitate lived experience talks on addiction, recovery and being able to change the cycle of crime.
• Sponsorship to work with people and take them through the 12 step programme work.
• Lived experience talks at schools, collages, universities, rehabs, detox centres.
• Creating outreach opportunities for adults in recovery to visit prisons to show prisoners that people can change the life cycle of addiction & crime.

• Working with adults in recovery from addiction with one to one support.
• Facilitating groups on recovery.
• Working with recovering adults to take them through the 12 steps of recovery work.
• Supporting adults who are reducing of their prescribed medication.

• Help support and facilitate support groups to adults with mental health issues.

I have to be transparent with my past.

• I was in addiction for 18 years, it was my escape when at the age of 19 years old my mum killed my dad and she got life in prison.
• I have served a few prison sentences of which 22 months was my biggest, I was released on the 6th march 2020.
• I was homeless on the streets living in a doorway, eating out of bins and street begging for 5 years which ended on the 19th October 2020 when I came in to recovery at reflections house.