MARIE WORRELL

Experienced professional known for a calming and caring approach. Focus in supporting individuals through their recovery processes. Achieve positive outcomes by demonstrating and utilising strong interpersonal skills tailored from a person centred approach tailored to an individuals needs, and purpose. enhancing the wellbeing of the client through evidence based practices.

Compassionate and driven demonstrating excellent communication skills coupled with the strong ability to build rapport and provide support.

Equipped to deal with challenging situations, derived from an empathetic approach. Dedicated to making a positive impact and change within an organisation that promotes, wellness, chances, equal opportunities. Is about creating a community of people who are and can recovery by coming together and joining forces to break down stigmas, labels and raising awareness, in a Team Leader role, working with the individuals at the forefront of any organisation the service users and clientele.

I have years of experience in the substance misuse field which is my specialist area however I have had the opportunity to explore multiple areas within the Health and Social Care Sector delivering evidence based tools and services in this field of work, including Mental health, homelessness, Domestic Violence interlinked with co-occurring commodities. As someone who is a passionate individual I thrive on supporting those with complex needs and, require support be it someone who needs an advocate and Motivational voice, which has allowed me to be privy to the progression and growth of those individuals with who I have the pleasure of working with. I have been witness to the determination and change in my client's driven by achievable goals to create a safer living environment with stability enabling the individual to live a well balanced life as they transition and reintegrate back into society. Being a survivor of DV provides me with the ability to be transparent in the work that I do sharing my knowledge with my clients creating solid risk and safeguarding assessments devised alongside accurate care plans meeting my clients needs to an impeccable standard. This is evident and shown through my experience and written work producing positive outcomes. I am a fanatic about criminology and Psychology and am fascinated in how the mind works. What provokes an individual to act and behave in a certain manner/ what characteristics/make-up of a person's brain enables one individual to be set aside from another and deemed acceptable in our communities. Nature or Nurture which in turn can lead to homelessness and addiction for instance.

Being able to encourage positive patterns of thinking enabling one to recognise their strengths as well as identifying areas' in which an individual may wish to improve.  Feelings and or ideas may be evoked where emotions are brought to the forefront which can then be transferred into a care plan for persons which takes practice and a skill that I posses and bodes well when supporting hard to reach, complex services users.

Having a timeline of ones life journey and seeing the map of their life visually can allow the individual and give that person something to work from in identifying, barriers, triggers, situations, people, places motivations and emotions to begin taking responsibility leading to setting achievable goals.  

Creative writing is something that I encourage and have championed my service users to use whether that be through spoken words, poetry, song writing.