Stuart Sharp

I took another role of a sessional support worker to work with after school clubs providing respite to children/young adults who have a caring role within their home. This can include going on days out, activities and mainly for myself sports. This is a role that is mainly more during school holidays and after school also whilst also providing the right care and attention to those who need more care and support.

• I started working as a bank support worker with ASIST in January 2023 to help cover sickness and holidays whilst staying in my own job. I would help with the users of the users of this service of day to day tasks with shopping, gardening, activities, work experience and many others to help being involved in the community. I have now been there 3 years and still enjoy it.

• I had swapped jobs over due to wanting to be closer to home as had a young son and travelling was not ideal. This was mainly a contact centre role at first dealing with fraud reports for the police but after a year progressed into a new role of a Victim Contact Advisor where I currently still am. This is hybrid Administration role with a lot of work to do on systems with spreadsheets and emails. In the midst of this you may need to contact those who have been victims of fraud to help with their case and provide support and making sure they had the right information to help. This role is now work from home so has given me flexibility to help with my other support worker roles.

• I started working as part time support working which is one Saturday a month and some weeknights doing part time support working with children age ranged 8-18 this is offer additional help to those who need it and do vast amount of activities and providing right level of support to those who need it. This service was stopped in March 2024 due to lack of funds been stopped.

• I started working on a campaign with the finance company Close Brothers:Premium Finance based in Glasgow which is providing customer service to customers helping with their finances and any queries they may have whilst also providing support. I've now been employed with Close Brothers for a year now and have become one of the most senior agents assisting my Team Leaders with knowledge and skill set, I've learned a lot working in this job more than any other any have taken a strong liking to the problem solving, dealing with different queries every day and always finding new challenges within this role I feel I know extremely well now and always keen to develop further, whilst that being on the phones or floor walking and assisting my colleagues with help.

• I started a weekend and part time work with Key housing offering support to those who need this with disabilities and also a youth team throughout the week, I've worked with a few wonderful people, helping and assisting with their day to day life. Due to personal circumstances and the birth of my son I decided to keep my weekends free as I was already working a full time job, but would be keen to do work like this in my free time in the future as it was a very rewarding job and great to work in this environment.

• I started working at Amazon in August as a warehouse operative. This helped me understand more of working towards targets and hitting numbers which really motivated me to try succeed and setting myself personal goals. After a month I applied to be an instructor and show people round the building and coach them through their first few days, I really enjoyed the challenge and helped people and again gained more confidence in my skills to help run a team and communicate well with others

• I took on a second job in the summer of 2015 before I started my HND to start earning more money, I was given more responsibility in the Tudor as I would do far more prep work, be asked to help out front which helped me with customer relations and multi-tasking a lot more with more responsibility.

• For a number of years when studying at college I worked part time and also full time at numerous restaurants to gain more experience and also help with college with involved mainly weekend work and evenings. I done this for a number of years before finding full time employment.
• As I left school I got a job just as a general kitchen assistant, working with numerous tasks at a fast paced work environment, this is where I developed more of my communication skills and team working abilities.