Stephanie Nkechi Akinola
Nottingham
Summary
Committed professional with focus on support and care in social work sector. Capable of enhancing individual well-being by providing tailored support, utilising skills in active listening, empathy, and problem-solving. Offering improved service delivery and client satisfaction through personalised care plans and effective communication.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
17
17
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Support Worker
Eden Future Support
07.2024 - 01.2025
- Responsible for providing emotional support, assisting with daily tasks, advocating for my clients' needs, ensuring their safety, and promoting their independence and well-being
- Workers are positively impacting the lives of my clients by promoting their independence, well-being, and fostering meaningful connections within their support network
Care Assistant
Focus Care Home
Nottingham
02.2023 - 06.2024
- Responsible for assisting with personal care tasks, such as bathing and dressing, administering medication as directed, providing companionship and emotional support, maintaining a clean and safe environment, and communicating effectively with healthcare professionals and family members
Head Teacher
Goshen Field Montessori School
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
07.2018 - 12.2022
- Company Overview: Service Worked: Education
- Providing leadership and direction to the school staff, creating and implementing educational policies, fostering a positive learning environment, overseeing curriculum development, managing budgets and resources, communicating with parents and stakeholders, and ensuring the overall success and well-being of the students and staff
- Service Worked: Education
- Improving academic performance and student outcomes, fostering a positive and inclusive school culture, developing effective teaching strategies, implementing successful educational initiatives, building strong relationships with staff, students, and parents, and effectively managing resources to support the school's mission and goals
Support Worker
Spring Of Life Ltd
Enugu, Nigeria
11.2013 - 01.2018
- Working closely with individuals to support them in their everyday life, in terms of their practical and personal tasks such as supporting the individual to visit family and friends, weekly shopping, assisting with dressing and personal care if required, supporting and helping with health care needs, including routine checks or administering medication, counting and recording of their medication and finance
- Supporting individuals to attain independence, support them to participate in their chosen activities and to access other services and facilities within their community, provide individuals with support when needed whilst maintaining person-centred approach with all aspects of individuals' support, adapting to their different individual needs, support individual to maintain a clean and safe environment, be respectful to individuals at all times promoting their dignity, privacy, and individuality, ensuring their confidentiality is maintained, provide emotional support for individuals and their families, work as a member of a team, accurately report and record any incidents and accidents to the appropriate persons, support individual to stay safe, taking appropriate action to safeguarding their welfare and protect them
- Clients moving from supported living into independence living
- Clients achieving their goals and feeling happy
Care assistance
Veer Care Home
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
05.2007 - 06.2013
- Company Overview: Outline: Offer residential, nursing, and dementia care
- Assisting Residents in all aspects of care needs (e.g
- Physical and emotional), providing attention when needed, whilst ensuring Residents retain comfort and dignity, Assisting Residents who have limited mobility, or physical/learning difficulty, making the best use of aids provided, to ensure that they safely achieve their personal goals, closely monitor residents who may be confused and/or who may demonstrate behaviour that challenges to ensure the safety and welfare of themselves and others, ensure the Care Home's resources are used appropriately to minimise waste and reduce risk, Accurately document care given and report concerns as necessary, make and change beds and ensure that rooms are tidy, and any bedroom equipment is kept clean to ensure a homely environment for the resident, Assist in the delivery of care for the dying or with a progressive illness to ensure a dignified End of Life, Administering of topical medicines in line with the prescription on the topical medicines administration record
- Outline: Offer residential, nursing, and dementia care
- Offering person centred care according to their care plan, making individuals happy and feel at home
Education
Msc - Marketing and Brand Management
Nottingham Trent University
01.2023 - 01.2024
Bachelor of Science - Political Science
Enugu State University of Science And Technology
Enugu, Enugu State 09.2001 - 01.2005
National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) - undefined
09.2006 - 09.2007
Senior School Certificate -
Queen's School Enugu
Enugu 09.1995 - 07.2001
First School Leaving Certificate - undefined
Ekulu Primary School
09.1989 - 07.1995
Skills
- Teaching
- Support Worker
- Care Assistance
- Administrative support
- Residential care support
Custom
- Medicine Awareness & Competency
- Fire Safety Awareness
- Personal Appearance
- Part-1 Personal hygiene
- Fire Extinguishing use
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- COSHH Awareness For Employee
- CPR Awareness Certified
- RIDDOR
- First Aid
- Awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disability
- Fire drill
- Sure safety
- Food safety
- Health and social care-your role
- Health and safety Awareness
- Housing related support
- Learning disability
- Maybe personal safety
- MCA and DOLs
- PBS
- Peer monitoring
- Positive behavioural support Module 1&2
- Recording & Reporting & Finance
- Safety Administration of medication foundation
- Safeguarding Adults at risk
- Safeguarding vulnerable Adults
- Safe Lone working 2020
- Trauma
- Autism
- Manual Handling
- Personal appearance Part 2 dress code
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Risk Assessment Awareness
- Coronavirus COVID 19
- Basic Food Safety Awareness
- Social Distancing- Covid - 19
- Equality and Diversity
- PPE- Personal Protective Equipment
Affiliations
- Reading,Gardening,Boardgame,Counselling,Music
Timeline
Support Worker
Eden Future Support
07.2024 - 01.2025
Care Assistant
Focus Care Home
02.2023 - 06.2024
Msc - Marketing and Brand Management
Nottingham Trent University
01.2023 - 01.2024
Head Teacher
Goshen Field Montessori School
07.2018 - 12.2022
Support Worker
Spring Of Life Ltd
11.2013 - 01.2018
Care assistance
Veer Care Home
05.2007 - 06.2013
National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) - undefined
09.2006 - 09.2007
Bachelor of Science - Political Science
Enugu State University of Science And Technology
09.2001 - 01.2005
Senior School Certificate -
Queen's School Enugu
09.1995 - 07.2001
First School Leaving Certificate - undefined
Ekulu Primary School
09.1989 - 07.1995
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