Summary
Overview
Work history
Education
Skills
Languages
References
Hobbies and interests
Career goals
Affiliations
Timeline
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Noella Volatsara

Noella Volatsara

Lancaster,Lancashire

Summary

Highly motivated and compassionate professional with over three years of experience supporting vulnerable individuals. Skilled in behaviour change support, mental health, substance misuse, and domestic abuse. Committed to delivering person centred support that empowers survivors to make positive changes, build resilience, and achieve a brighter future.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work history

Tobacco and alcohol dependency Advisor

Royal Preston Hospital
Preston, Lancashire
2025.03 - Current
  • Assessing patient's smoking and alcohol use to determine appropriate treatment pathway and health promotion with motivational interviewing.
  • Liaising with community services to streamline patient care.
  • Managing heavy workload with independent working and effective time management.
  • Maintained service user's confidentiality at all times
  • Creating and delivering teaching packages for various disciplines team within the Trust.
  • Working collaboratively within a busy team and in a non-clinical role.
  • Managing data collection to keep accurate records.
  • Keeping patients safe from harm and abuse
  • Referring children at high risk to the Safeguarding team

Tobacco Dependency Advisor

Everyone Health
Burton-On-Trent, Staffordshire
2024.09 - 2025.02
  • Assessed client's smoking habits and readiness to quit
  • Developed personalised quit plans, including motivational interviewing, behavioral strategies and NRT provision.
  • Monitored progress and provided health promotion interventions.
  • Delivered smoking cessation training.
  • Recorded outcomes and kept accurate reports.
  • Maintained service user's confidentiality at all times
  • Liaised patient to appropriate services.
  • Made follow-up calls
  • Writing and answering emails

Healthcare Support Worker

NHS Foundation Trust
Lancaster, Lancashire
2023.03 - 2024.09
  • Supported patient wellbeing by planning and participating in daily activities and exercise.
  • Provided emotional support to patients and families, offering reassurance and empathy during challenging times.
  • Maintained service users' confidentiality at all times.
  • Helping nurses with clinical tasks, such as monitoring blood pressure, weight.
  • Kept individuals safe from harm and abuse
  • Observing patient's mental and physical health
  • Reporting changes and maintaining accurate records

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Night refugee Housing Assistant

Safenet
Lancaster
2022.09 - 2023.02
  • Kept survivors and their children safe from perpetrators.
  • Built trusting and professional relationships with residents.
  • Working closely with local police.
  • Helped survivors with their housing and immigration.
  • Provided emotional and well-being support to residents
  • * Worked collaboratively with social care services
  • Referred survivors to appropriate services, including health and social care.
  • Maintained resident's confidentiality in accordance with data protection and safeguarding policies.
  • Maintained accurate and up-to-date records.

Front of House

Galico Lounge Restaurant
Lancaster, Lancashire
2022.01 - 2022.09
  • Welcoming customers into the restaurant, and seating them.
  • Serving food and drinks to customers.
  • Talking to customers to ensure they're happy with their orders, and to provide excellent customer service.
  • Ensuring tables and the area being worked in are always clean, tidy, and hygienic.
  • Facilitated communication between the front of house and backstage teams, ensuring timely cues and coordination.

Crew Member

McDonalds Restaurant
Lancaster, Lancashire
2021.04 - 2021.12
  • Working on the tills within customer service, my duties included serving customers, handling cash, stocking shelves, helping customers on the shop floor, and preparing food to very high standards.
  • This included providing outstanding customer service with every customer I interacted with.

Freelance transcription work

TranscribeMe
Lancaster, Lancashire
2020.10 - 2021.04
  • This involved carrying out hundreds of transcription jobs, which involved accurately transcribing thousands of hours' worth of conversations.
  • These were carried out towards a strict deadline, and 99% accuracy was required for the work.

Telephone Customer Advisor

Sara Books
Antananarivo
2016.01 - 2016.10
  • Company Overview: (Call Centre).
  • My job was to take orders over the telephone for elderly customers who did not know how to order books online.
  • I was also expected to generate sales by building a rapport with customers and recommending new books for them to purchase, which might be of interest to inbound customers who would use our company to make purchases.

Education

LEVEL 2 - English Functional Skills

Lancaster and Morecambe College
Lancaster

BAC + 2 - Law

University of Tulear
Madagascar

Baccalaureate - All subjects

Madagascar

Skills

  • Enhanced Communication Skills
  • Safeguarding Adult and children Level 3
  • Freedom Program Certificate
  • Trauma Informed
  • Data protection
  • IT Systems
  • Knowledge of healthcare
  • Basic Life Support
  • Booking systems
  • Organisational skills
  • Mental health
  • Customer services
  • People skills
  • Telephone call

Languages

English: C1 Advanced
French: C1 Advanced
Arabic: A2 Elementary

References

References available on request

Hobbies and interests

Swimming, Dancing, picnicking, Walking, Cooking, Socializing, Singing, Travelling

Career goals

  • Leadership and Management
  • Social Work

Affiliations

  • Learning languages, Swimmimg, cooking, nature

Timeline

Tobacco and alcohol dependency Advisor

Royal Preston Hospital
2025.03 - Current

Tobacco Dependency Advisor

Everyone Health
2024.09 - 2025.02

Healthcare Support Worker

NHS Foundation Trust
2023.03 - 2024.09

Night refugee Housing Assistant

Safenet
2022.09 - 2023.02

Front of House

Galico Lounge Restaurant
2022.01 - 2022.09

Crew Member

McDonalds Restaurant
2021.04 - 2021.12

Freelance transcription work

TranscribeMe
2020.10 - 2021.04

Telephone Customer Advisor

Sara Books
2016.01 - 2016.10

Baccalaureate - All subjects

BAC + 2 - Law

University of Tulear

LEVEL 2 - English Functional Skills

Lancaster and Morecambe College
Noella Volatsara