Mr Thomas Bate
Attleborough,Norfolk
Summary
Hard working individual with an eye for detail and ensuring tasks are completed professionally and accurately in a timely fashion. Confident in leading a group but able to work solo or as part of a team. Comfortable working under pressure and multi tasking. Excelled in most recent line of work with 3 successful inspections and earning housing officer of the month twice out of 29 sites.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work history
Housing Officer
Cromwood Housing Group
Norwich, Norfolk
02.2023 - Current
- Supporting and assisting over 500 vulnerable individuals and families living in temporary accommodation. Helping them access services alongside monitoring their welfare.
- Ensuring the building and accommodation is safe, habitable, fit for purpose and fully equipped including monthly maintenance checks.
- Designated point of contact, liaising with organisations, safeguarding and other third parties.
- Completing and sending incident reports, collecting and sending data daily and weekly using Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Ensuring that the residents are compliant with the conditions set out for them whilst living in the accommodation.
Security Team Manager
Securo Consultants
Norwich, Norfolk
10.2022 - 02.2023
- Main point of contact on site, responsible for collecting and sending daily/weekly data and assisting service users.
- Responsible for leading a team of 10 security personnel on static site. Growing to a team of 17 across 2 sites.
- Managing staffing schedules and ensuring rotas were delivered within allocated time frames. Liaising with staff members to ensure shifts were covered.
- Completing weekly timesheets on Excel spreadsheets.
- Recruiting new staff when required, inducting and training new and existing team members to ensure site was operating efficiently.
- Provided detailed and factual reports of incidents when they occurred.
Security Officer
Self Employed
Norwich, Norfolk
05.2022 - 10.2022
- Freelance security working at various locations and events such as Addenbrookes Hospital, UEA graduation week, Great Yarmouth Racecourse, Lord Mayors Procession, festivals around Norfolk/Suffolk and Doors at pubs and clubs in Norwich.
- Often working in difficult and high pressure environments with a degree of professionalism. Often having to “think fast” to deescalate situations which result in a positive outcome.
- Protecting members of the public, ensuring their safety and well-being as the number one priority.
- Thoroughly carrying out searches of bags and checking identification upon entry.
- Often relied on and given the responsibility to manage complex situations.
- CCTV monitoring.
Skilled Labourer
HD Interiors
Liverpool , Merseyside
03.2021 - 05.2022
- Worked with a highly skilled team renovating a commercial warehouse.
- Tasks included gutting the building completely, knocking down walls, tearing up floors, removing pre existing electrical system and water/heating pipes.
- Assisting with brick work - mixing cement, loading/unloading materials, erecting supports and walls.
- Assisting with installation of new electrical, and data cables.
- Prepping and painting exterior walls, windows and roof.
- Deep cleaning the interior and exterior of the building using high powered jet wash.
- Responsible for site keys and making purchases for tools and equipment.
Children's Entertainer/Costume Maker
Self Employed
Beccles, Suffolk
01.2009 - 01.2021
- I owned 2 successful businesses as a sole trader.
- Bouncy castle hire. Lookalike character entertainment. Custom made costume design and production.
- Dealing with customers, managing staff, handling accounts.
Skills
- Confidential documentation and record-keeping
- Ability to connect and communicate with people from all backgrounds
- Natural leader
- Detail-orientated
- SIA licence holder
- Incident reports
- Ability to prioritize
- Data entry
- Will to succeed
COMPLETED TRAINING
- Action Counters Terrorism Training
- Conflict Management
- Emergency First Aid at Work (Level 3)
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
- FGM Awareness & Prevention
- Fire Warden
- First Aid Appointed Person
- Food Allergy Awareness
- Food Hygiene, Nutrition and Hydration in Social Care
- Food Safety and Hygiene (Level 2)
- Handling Aggressive Behaviour
- Mental Health Awareness and Management
- Mind - Mental Health First Response
- Modern Slavery
- Overdose & Naloxone Awareness
- Safeguarding Adults (Level 2)
- Safeguarding Children (Level 2)
- Unconscious Bias for Employees
EDUCATION
GNVQ LEVEL 1: Leisure & Tourism , 2002
Easton College - Easton Norfolk
AVCE Level 3: Leisure & Tourism , 2003
City College - Norwich, Norfolk
PERSONAL INTERESTS
- Spending quality time with my children.
- Working out.
- Computing.
- Watching Basketball.
- Drawing.
- Learning how to cook.
- Travelling.
- Watching movies/tv boxsets.
Timeline
Housing Officer
Cromwood Housing Group
02.2023 - Current
Security Team Manager
Securo Consultants
10.2022 - 02.2023
Security Officer
Self Employed
05.2022 - 10.2022
Skilled Labourer
HD Interiors
03.2021 - 05.2022
Children's Entertainer/Costume Maker
Self Employed
01.2009 - 01.2021