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Nicola Payne

Slaithwaite,West Yorkshire

Summary

Dynamic professional with strong problem-solving abilities and exceptional communication skills. Customer focused with a positive, can do attitude, excellent relationship management skills with the ability to communicate at all levels. Developing new systems to enhance service and efficiency.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Service Co-Ordinator

Barnardo's Cygnet Autism Support
Bradford, West Yorkshire
07.2023 - Current

Processing orders for the Cygnet Autism Support programme, Completing invoice request forms for finance department to raise invoices for providers.

Maintaining sales ledger

Maintaining training registers

Setting up TEAM's meeting for online training sessions.

Sending out pre training course information in a timely manner.

Maintaining provider management database with providers details

Producing profit and loss and actual transactions reports using Power BI to present at monthly finance meetings.

Amending Cygnet website with provider details

Raising purchase orders

Monitoring service email inbox and responding accordingly

Implemented new administration procedures to improve efficiency

Service administrator

Barnardo's Kirklees Young Carers
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
05.2023 - Current

Managing Service inboxes. Responding to emails accordingly. Forwarding emails to management and/or team members where necessary. Entering referral on to Content Server. Uploading referral forms and corresponding documents onto case files. Updating Service activity spreadsheet. Keeping staff documentation up to date i.e DBS checks, car insurance details, ID cards

Running reports for team managers to present to service commissioner.

Raising purchase orders using Dynamics 365

Distributing and reconciling petty cash on a monthly basis to send to head office within specific timescales.


School Secretary

Ballyduff National School
Wexford
09.2013 - 02.2023

Greeting visitors to the school
Drafting and typing correspondence
Updating pupil records, details of absences using Aladdin
Recording staff holidays, sick leave using Esinet
Collecting and recording payments from pupils
Updating of financial spreadsheet, collating of invoices, paying bills
Organising school trips
Liaising with teachers, staff and outside agencies

Gap in employment

Home maker
Ireland
07.2006 - 09.2013

I moved to Ireland from the UK in August 2006 and was lucky enough to be able to stay at home with my children in order to ease the transition of moving to another country. In this time I had my third child and stayed at home until she was of school going age.

Service desk officer

National Blood Service
Leeds, West Yorkshire
11.2002 - 07.2006

Recording of reported incidents and breakdowns from various field-based IT system users. Facilitate the appropriate resources in order to achieve satisfactory resolutions within strictly managed Service Level Agreements. Ensuring the customer is fully informed of the progress of the incident report through to completion. Provide first line technical support to all IT hardware users. Issue, record and manage Security Access ID tokens. Fulfil, sign off and deliver new requisitions for voice/data and mobile solutions to the field.

Education

Diploma of Higher Education - TEFL Advanced Masterclass

TEFL Manchester School of Languages
Online
04.2020 -

Diploma of Higher Education - SEND Diploma

New Skills Academy
online
04.2020 -

Diploma of Higher Education - Teaching Assistant Diploma

New Skills Academy
online
05.2020 -

Verbal Intervention training

CPI
Bradford
03.2024 - 03.2024

GCSEs - Maths, English, History, French

John Smeaton Community High School
Leeds
06.1988 - 07.1988

NVQ Level 1 - Customer Service

National Vocation Qualification
Leeds

Foundations of Service Management

ITIL
Leeds

Skills

  • Problem-solving
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Resourceful
  • Work well under pressure
  • Responsible stewardship
  • DBS checked

Affiliations

  • I enjoy craft and art, trying new projects. Refurbishing furniture. Passionate about plants.

Timeline

Verbal Intervention training

CPI
03.2024 - 03.2024

Service Co-Ordinator

Barnardo's Cygnet Autism Support
07.2023 - Current

Service administrator

Barnardo's Kirklees Young Carers
05.2023 - Current

Diploma of Higher Education - Teaching Assistant Diploma

New Skills Academy
05.2020 -

Diploma of Higher Education - TEFL Advanced Masterclass

TEFL Manchester School of Languages
04.2020 -

Diploma of Higher Education - SEND Diploma

New Skills Academy
04.2020 -

School Secretary

Ballyduff National School
09.2013 - 02.2023

Gap in employment

Home maker
07.2006 - 09.2013

Service desk officer

National Blood Service
11.2002 - 07.2006

GCSEs - Maths, English, History, French

John Smeaton Community High School
06.1988 - 07.1988

NVQ Level 1 - Customer Service

National Vocation Qualification

Foundations of Service Management

ITIL
Nicola Payne