Rachel Jayasingha

• Worked within a team, supporting children with learning, with regulating their emotions and achieving positive behaviour goals.
• Experience of working with a range of communication devices and strategies including: eye gaze devices, visual timetable/PECS, first and then, Attention Autism sessions, Team Teach.
• Supported children with a range of physical needs including: feeding needs, toileting/toilet training for physically able children, personal care for children who have physical disabilities including hoisting, supporting children to achieve targets around physical development by delivering their physiotherapy, OT and SLT programmes in class, supporting children in the pool with swimming.
• Maintained up-to-date records of pupil progress, tracking individual development towards IPP targets.
• Supported children to access the community including school trips and regular horse riding and cycling lessons.
• Supported the team to maintain good safeguarding practices by using ABC behaviour charts and recording incidents, accidents and near misses in line with employers policies.
• Supported the team to maintain a safe working environment by participating in daily checking and cleaning of manual handling equipment and reporting of issues in the environment to the maintenance manager.
• Attended all training required by my employer - I have completed manual handling, dysphagia and safeguarding training within the last year as well as a range of other training sessions during my time at Brooklands. These include training sessions around epilepsy, asthma, allergies, medication management, health and safety at work, fire safety and managing challenging behaviour.

• Working at a Saturday club for children who have SEN in order to provide respite breaks for families.
• Supported different child each week on a 1:1 basis. Enabled children to access their favourite activities, participate in meal times and supported around personal care.
• Managed challenging behaviour and risk effectively, working together as part of a team.
• Worked as shift leader on a number of occasions, enabling staff to take their breaks throughout the day, by covering 1:1 with different children.

• Enabling carers to take a break from caring responsibilities by carrying out a range of activities in the home with the cared-for individual. Activities included: conversation, playing board games and card games, supporting people to continue their hobbies, supporting people around hydration and nutrition, supporting people with mobility.

Worked in two different advocacy roles during my time at SEAP

• Supported individuals to gain a better understanding of their NHS care and make complaints or seek answers and resolutions when they were unhappy with their care.
• Worked in the IMCA role, supporting the decision making process around major decisions for individuals who lacked capacity to make decisions for their own future and who did not have an appropriate adult or family member to represent them
• Participated in meetings, wrote reports, assisted individuals to put their concerns, complaints and questions in writing.

Managed my own caseload as Care Coordinator, offering tailored support to meet the needs of a range of individuals who had severe and enduring mental health difficulties. This support varied from patient to patient according to need but included:

• support around medication
• referral to psychology, art and music therapy services
• assistance with issues around housing and benefits
• referral for voluntary inpatient assessment and treatment
• supporting carers and young carers
• attending ward round for inpatients
• attending Risk Panel, timetabling and attending CPA reviews.
• covering Duty days for the team, taking on enquiries and covering emergencies which might arise on a colleague's caseload when they were out of the office.

Working as part of a team providing 24/7 support within a children's home. Duties included:

• Keyworking with one child, which included supporting contact with her birth mother.
• Helping with general tasks around the Home such as meal preparation, driving children to appointments, taking them shopping and supporting young people to clean and tidy their bedrooms and communal areas.
• Supporting young people who have a background of trauma and helping them to access appropriate support through other agencies such as CAMHS, sexual health services and police.
• Managing petty cash during shifts.

Social Work training including class based learning around social policy, introduction to counselling models, growth and human development, risk assessment. Also included 2 work placements, one in a London children's centre working with under 5's and the other in Reigate, Surrey, supporting Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking children.

• Children's centre role included supporting a parenting group, leading a project to develop the parent's room space for use by local parents to spend time after drop off or before pick up, helping parents to connect in with local groups where they could seek support,
• Supporting unaccompanied asylum seeking children involved working with young people between the ages of 16-20 who were in the UK without a family member and needed support around housing, maintaining college placements and becoming young parents themselves.

Worked as part of a team to provide a 24/7 service to clients both learning disabilities and mental health problems and who were in supported living settings in the community.

• Enabled clients to build independence through support with cooking, self care, medication, hobbies and to access healthcare.
• Supporting clients as a keyworker, assisting them to maintain contact with family.
• Maintaining relevant paperwork.
• Helping to maintain the living environment.
• Managing petty cash.

Working with the adoption and fostering team in Birmingham City Council undertaking a range of administrative tasks including:

• dealing with members of the public and other agencies over the telephone
• supporting the Social Work team with administration around bringing cases to the Adoption and Fostering Panel
• maintaining a database of approved adopters and foster carers and carrying out initial matching searches for the Social Work team.

Worked in a range of roles as an admin assistant before successfully applying for a permanent role on a team where I was temping.

Worked as a language teacher for children and adults at a private language school in Moscow. The role included:

• assessing learner's proficiency levels accurately using appropriate tools and techniques.
• teaching a range of levels of English using a range of teaching materials and techniques.
• Provided constructive feedback on oral and written work, improving student performance.
• Tailored lessons to meet individual learning needs, ensuring progress.

Worked as a language teacher for children and adults at a private language school in Lublin, Poland The role included:

• assessing learner's proficiency levels accurately using appropriate tools and techniques.
• teaching a range of levels of English using a range of teaching materials and techniques.
• Provided constructive feedback on oral and written work, improving student performance.
• Tailored lessons to meet individual learning needs, ensuring progress.