- spending time with family and friends and creating lasting memories
- cooking with my husband, who loves to create amazing meals
- I enjoy walking in the countryside and spending time exploring the wider community around us
Lorna Moore
Crook,County Durham
Summary
Accomplished childcare professional with a solid history of overseeing daily operations and maintaining safety compliance, resulting in outstanding Ofsted ratings. Expertise in crafting tailored care programs and behavior management techniques that support child development. Proven ability to collaborate with teams, train staff, and resolve issues to optimize service delivery. Focused on advancing childcare services through innovative educational approaches and strong leadership.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Childcare Provider
self employed
10.2009 - Current
- Directed daily childcare operations to ensure compliance with safety regulations and educational standards.
- Orchestrated personalised care and educational routines tailored to children's unique requirements.
- Established nurturing environment, enhancing child development outcomes.
- Ensured rigorous quality assurance processes during inspections, achieving outstanding grading from Ofsted.
- Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
- Maintained clean, safe working environments to eliminate accident risks.
- Achieved service time and quality targets.
- Identified issues, analysed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Built and maintained courteous and effective working relationships.
- Demonstrated consistent hard work and dedication to achieve results and improve operations.
- Trained and mentored employees to maximise team performance.
- Met schedule using excellent planning and coordination skills.
- Developed team communications and information for meetings.
- Promoted safe working environment by implementing regulatory standards, policies, and guidelines.
- Developed excellent working knowledge of industry trends and improvements in processes.
Education
Diploma of Higher Education - childcare
LEVEL 5
COUNTY DURHAM01-2019
Skills
- Child development
- Safety compliance
- Quality assurance
- Personalized care
- Team collaboration
- Curriculum development
- Behavior management
- Regulatory knowledge
- Childcare operations
- Employee training
- Problem solving
- Communication skills
- Client relationship management
- Planning and coordination
- Nurturing environment
- Positive attitude
- Trustworthy
- Communication
- Child motivation
- Creative thinking
- Patience and calmness
- Child emotional support
- Child supervision
- Time-management
- Decision making
- Health and safety knowledge
- Lesson and activity planning
- Active listening
- Team Leadership
- First Aid
- Effective communication
- Meal preparation
- Energetic
- Activity planning
- Toilet training and nappy changing
- Parent communication
- Relationship-building
- Responsiveness
- Basic computer literacy
- Record-keeping
- Behaviour management strategies
- Hygiene standards enforcement
- Empathetic attitude
- Play-based learning
- Good judgement
- Safeguarding awareness
- Basic computer proficiency
- Behaviour management
- Child activity developing
- Health and Safety regulations
- Challenging behaviour and learning difficulties assistance
- Healthy snack preparing
- Health and Safety Compliance
- Child development knowledge
- Food hygiene and allergy awareness
- Time efficiency
- Hygiene standards
- Creativity in play
- Creativity and innovation
- Empathy and compassion
- Communication proficiency
- Physical stamina
- Stress tolerance
- First Aid certification
- Health and safety training
- Behaviour Management
- Emotional and social development support
- Hygiene control
- Curriculum knowledge
- Child progress monitoring
- Public speaking
- Self-motivation
- Child safeguarding
- Risk Assessment
- Training and Development
- Age-appropriate activities
- Outdoor learning
- Nap supervision and cot checks
- Negotiation expertise
- Special needs experience
- Strategic planning
- Lesson plan development
- Safety understanding
- Curriculum planning
- Critical-thinking
- Behavioural guidance
- Positive reinforcement
- Project coordination
- Stress management
- Allergen awareness
- Project Management
- Experience with learning disabilities
- Autism spectrum understanding
- Meal planning
Interests
Timeline
Childcare Provider
self employed
10.2009 - Current
Diploma of Higher Education - childcare
LEVEL 5