MARY OYEDIRAN
Gateshead
Summary
Compassionate Mental Health Support Worker committed to promoting positive emotional health and wellbeing. Responds proactively to pressure for reliable, flexible support, adapting to individual requirements. Plans and prioritises well for organised approaches to busy workloads.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Mental health support worker
Africansinuk Mental Health
Birmingham
02.2024 - 06.2024
- Maintained confidentiality of clients' information.
- Assisted service users to obtain and access community resources.
- Provided emotional support to patients and families facing challenging situations.
- Determined ongoing patient safety, promptly reporting concerns about abuse or safeguarding issues to care managers.
Health Care Assistant
Life Care Clinic and Maternity
Nigeria
03.2023 - 01.2024
- Support and monitor healthcare needs including reminders on administering medication
- Helping clients/patients to access community facilities and be included in community groups
- Provide care and companionship for individuals and families during periods of incapacitation, convalescence, or family disruption
- Assist in taking clients to hospitals for medical appointments
- Perform routine housekeeping tasks such as laundry, meal assistance, clean-up, and other home management duties.
- Assisted in all aspects of personal care, retaining comfort and dignity.
- Kept patient environments clean and neat following optimum hygiene standards.
- Successfully positioned, lifted and moved patients from bed into wheelchairs, applying safe handling techniques.
- Delivered personal care focused on individual needs, preserving patient dignity and self-esteem.
- Helped individuals with day-to-day activities while consistently encouraging independence and self-belief.
Mathematics teacher
National Youth Service Corp, Ansar Ud Deen Society High Saki
Nigeria
02.2022 - 02.2023
- Instructs students, manage behaviors, encourage students learning and assess progress
- Individualized support to students requiring additional guidance
- Creating an environment that allows students to learn and grow
- Use behavior management plans to encourage expected behaviors in the classroom
- Use creativity and use learning tools to expand knowledge.
- Identified student strengths and weaknesses, providing constructive feedback to improve results.
- Created and marked homework, exams and class activities to monitor individuals' progress.
- Completed training courses to keep up-to-date with new teaching methods and developments in the field.
Care Assistant
LIFE CARE MATERNITY,AKURE NIGERIA
Nigeria
01.2009 - 01.2013
- Assisting with personal care takes(bathing,dressing,grooming)
- Providing companionship and emotional support
- Assisting with meal preparation and feeding
- Monitoring and reporting changes in clients' condition.
- Assisted in all aspects of personal care, retaining comfort and dignity.
- Helped individuals with day-to-day activities while consistently encouraging independence and self-belief.
- Kept patient environments clean and neat following optimum hygiene standards.
- Delivered personal care focused on individual needs, preserving patient dignity and self-esteem.
Education
Nigeria Certificate in Education - Mathematics/Physics
Osun State College Of Education
Nigeria12.2016
Bachelor of Education - Educational Management/Mathematics
University of Ibadan
Ibadan,Nigeria03.2021
Skills
- Natural passion for caring
- Good communication, observation, and interpersonal skills
- Companionship and emotional support
- Schedule management and administrative support
- Microsoft Outlook
- Community engagement
- Personal care
- Personal care assistance
- Allied health referral procedures
- Risk Management
- Mental health treatment planning
- Mental health first aid
- Attentive listening
- Record management
- Disability services
- Mental health crisis intervention
- Progress reporting
- Patient relations
- Data input
Certification
- Florence Academy training certificate (first aids,life support)
- Covid awareness
- Fire Safety
- Awareness of mental health
- Safeguarding Adult & children
- Health & safety
Custom
Referees Available on request
Timeline
Mental health support worker
Africansinuk Mental Health
02.2024 - 06.2024
Health Care Assistant
Life Care Clinic and Maternity
03.2023 - 01.2024
Mathematics teacher
National Youth Service Corp, Ansar Ud Deen Society High Saki
02.2022 - 02.2023
Care Assistant
LIFE CARE MATERNITY,AKURE NIGERIA
01.2009 - 01.2013
Nigeria Certificate in Education - Mathematics/Physics
Osun State College Of Education
Bachelor of Education - Educational Management/Mathematics
University of Ibadan
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