stacy pearson

• I am part of a team fully embedding a personalised approach to service delivery. Within a residential home in Kirklees, I have an expectation to deliver high-quality, person-centred care and support to our residents in line with CQC standards. As part of my role, I am expected to lead a shift, administer medication, contribute to person centred care plans, and facilitate admissions and discharges for our residents. Reporting to a Deputy Team Manager and working alongside other Team Coordinators, I have responsibility for a team of Support Workers to include line management, supervision, and the development of the team. The overall support of my staff team is key to this role, ensuring that both mandatory and individual training and development needs are identified. A large part of my role is to work with service users, relatives, and other professionals. Working with care staff to contribute to and develop personal support plans with residents who may have restricted mobility and/or challenging behaviour, to ensure the highest quality of care and support is provided. As a positive role model, I am open to change and show a willingness to get involved by presenting a self-assured image in a variety of situations, through this I demonstrate commitment to service priorities. Should I encounter practices or behaviour which does not meet service standards I am expected to challenge this and make the relevant Manager or Deputy Team Managers aware of the actions taken. As part of my wider duties and responsibilities I am required to promote and actively support the Councils responsibilities towards safeguarding, keeping people safe and protecting them from harm, neglect, abuse, and injury. Creating safe places, being vigilant and acting quickly with any concerns that arise.
• Key achievement's and successes

Working with vulnerable adults with various mental capacity and behavioural needs, I am always looking for creative ways to enrich day to day living, some of these included:

Creating a sensory room, from planning to sourcing funding to create a diverse safe space for sensory enrichment for those who cannot physically join in unassisted to service users who can immerse themselves in a space designed to be nostalgic and stimulating the senses.

Organising a Claremont market day, we now do once per calendar month, we imitate Dewsbury market and take our services users out In the garden to have a ‘rummage’ we sourced donations of clothing and household ornaments that the residents can purchase for 10p-50p.

This stimulation creates a sense of excitement within our home and residents thoroughly enjoy and look forward to our market day.

Staff wellbeing Wednesday. I am a qualified beautician with 10 plus year’s experience. We have had challenging times through covid-19 and all staff have felt it, burn out -sadness from loosing residents and staff shortages, I put forward to our home manager to utilise my skills and use a day to boost moral and give a little back, cost is minimal to the home and its only my time, staff enjoy small beauty treatment they have a choice of: brow waxing and tinting, lash tinting, facial waxing, skin assessment and mini facial, gel polished toes or a hand manicure tidy and massage.

This is a massive hit with our staff and one I think is unique to a workplace, our staff save money and it’s a real confidence boost. I have now a hairdresser and another beautician on board so we can keep regular and accommodate all staff on different shift patterns.

• Gave high-quality manicures and pedicures, tailoring treatments to clients' preferences.
• Created visual nail designs based on customer requests.
• Engaged customers in conversation upon salon entry, cultivating welcoming environment.
• Sterilised equipment and kept salon tidy.

In 2008 I began my training to become a Nail technician/ Beautician, i’ve worked in various salons to gain experience and build a client portfolio. In 2012 I rented my own salon with two self employed hairstylists and two further beauticians, as well as providing services to my own clients I supported and provided inhouse training for staff within the salon. Day to day running, admin/tax and accounts, assisting staff with HMRC and their own accounts and finances.

In 2019 I was forced to close with covid -19 as it wasn’t viable, I opened up a area of my home to accommodate some of my longest standing clients.

I still work salon based in my free time.

Working on events providing first aid and support to the general public, being a first point of call for support either emotional or medical.

Volunteering Cadets (aged 11-18). I helped to support them to care for others, gain new experiences, and learn important life skills, including first aid.

I had the opportunity to design my own role. This involved lesson planning, fundraising, running fun activities, such as outdoor events, summer camps, or providing more ‘behind-the-scenes’ support.

When I first started volunteering for St john youth cadets, I immediately saw an opportunity to give the cadets real life experiences, rather than being classroom-based learning basic first aid.

I wanted to push the boundaries, showing cadets first hand life experiences, we had a set programme to work through, I could choose what segments I wanted to focus on relevant to the time of year.

I chose homelessness and addiction; this was around wintertime. This exposure was a real eye opener for the youths and put into perspective different walks of life for people in crisis. I offered aftercare support for the youths due to it being a real reality shock and caused upset.

I arranged with Leeds homeless kitchen for the cadets to help sourcing clothing, toiletries and food vouchers which we were inundated with items.

This took a couple of weeks planning with ratio of staff to cadets and risk assessments as this was something St john had never done before; it was a massive success the cadets really were humbled and wanted to make this a regular occurrence.

The second term we concentrated on addiction with drugs and alcohol also misuse of prescribed medication, through the contacts I made with Leeds kitchen I arranged for people from various walks of life from recovery to current addiction who was more than happy to come and talk with our cadets about their life experience and journey through addiction and recovery also social implications, community judgement.