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TRICIA ESSOUN-THOMPSON

Great Yarmouth,United Kingdom

Summary

Dedicated and compassionate Support Worker with over 2 and half years of experience assisting vulnerable individuals, including elderly and people with disabilities, to live independently. Develop skills in providing personal care, emotional support, and practical help while promoting dignity and respect. Am very reliable, empathetic, and trained in safeguarding and health & safety procedures.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
4019
4019
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Support worker

Willows-Healthcare
Dereham, Norfolk
11.2025 - Current
  • Implement care plans set out by healthcare professionals leading to improved patient well-being.
  • Help organize engaging recreational activities to enhance social skills of patients.
  • Improved hygiene standards by assisting clients with personal grooming needs like bathing and dressing up.
  • Participate in regular team meetings, enhancing quality of care provided.
  • Assist with mobility issues enabling easier movement around home.
  • Assure safety measures were met to prevent falls or accidents.
  • Support daily living skills training which increase client self-sufficiency.
  • Enhance well-being of patients by providing emotional support and companionship.
  • Promote physical activity through assistance with exercises improving overall health condition of client.
  • Enhance patient comfort by promptly responding to requests or concerns.
  • Help organize engaging recreational activities to enhance social skills of patients.
  • Assure proper nutrition by preparing meals as per dietary requirements of each individual client.
  • Facilitate social outings, promoting community integration and mental well-being.
  • Respond rapidly during emergencies ensuring timely medical intervention.
  • Offer respite services for family caregivers allowing them brief periods of rest or time off from caring duties.
  • Conduct detail observations and report changes in client behaviour to healthcare professionals.

Support worker

TRC HEALTHCARE STAFFING AGENCY
Norwich, Norfolk
08.2025 - 11.2025

Provide companionship during outings contributing to active social life for clients.

  • Prepare nutritious meals that met special dietary needs of clients.
  • Help achieve patient independence through guided tasks and activities.
  • Assist in maintaining clean environment for improved client health.
  • Promote physical activity through assistance with exercises improving overall health condition of client.
  • Contribute feedback on patient progress leading to adjustments in personalized care plans.
  • Implement care plans set out by healthcare professionals leading to improved patient well-being.
  • Support daily living skills training which increased client self-sufficiency.
  • Promote mental stimulation through conversation, reading and games resulting in enhanced cognitive function.
  • Enhance well-being of patients by providing emotional support and companionship.
  • Assure safety measures were met to prevent falls or accidents.
  • Actively listen to client concerns thus creating comforting environment.
  • Assist with personal care activities such as washing and dressing, consistently promoting positive health and hygiene.
  • Use excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage and interact with individuals in need.
  • Build strong patient relationships through compassionate care and friendly rapport building.
  • Monitor and document client behaviors, activities and development, aiding appropriate care plan management.
  • Empower individuals to pursue hobbies and leisure activities such as shopping and creative activities.
  • Report on service user progress to senior staff, addressing concerns and suggesting appropriate action.
  • Conduct one-to-one and group support sessions, helping service users to achieve care plan objectives.
  • Improve health outcomes by delivering consistent care in collaboration with nursing team.
  • Increase comfort levels with personal care duties such as bathing and dressing.

Family And Child Care

Self employed
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
11.2023 - 09.2024
  • Carry out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
  • Quickly learn and applied new skills to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
  • Successfully deliver on tasks within tight deadlines.
  • Demonstrate respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
  • Improve efficiency and productivity by acquiring new skills.
  • Display energy and enthusiasm in fast-paced environment.
  • Complete customer orders with speed and accuracy.
  • Apply critical thinking to analyse problems, evaluate solutions and select best decisions.

Health care assistant

THE BANK HOSPITAL
Accra, Ghana
08.2021 - 11.2023
  • Support up to 7 residents daily with personal care and daily activities
  • Develop and followed individual care plans
  • Promote social engagement through activities and companionship
  • Recording notes accurately in line with GDPR and safeguarding guidelines
  • Assist clients with meals, mobility, and hygiene routines
  • Attend regular training on infection control and first aid
  • Provide emotional support to clients and families
  • Checking and recording vital signs of patients
  • Provision of emotional support to patients and relatives.
  • Assigning patients to counselors for counseling activities.
  • Educating patients on their health and how to stay healthy.
  • Assessing new patients
  • Writing of laboratory test for patients
  • Maintaining Records, including customer care logs and medication administration records

MD Personal Secretary, General Secretary & Administrative Assistant

Royal Dach Pharmaceuticals
Accra, Ghana- GREATER ACCRA
09.2019 - 10.2021
  • I provide administrative support to Executive Director, General Manager and other senior management staff.
  • I assist in recruitment, interviews and other administrative work.
  • I perform clerical and administrative tasks including drafting letters, memos, purchasing, reports and other documents for senior staff.
  • Handle confidential documents ensuring safety.
  • Receives incoming communication or memos on behalf of senior staff, reviews contents and distribute contents to appropriate staff.
  • Perform office tasks including maintaining records and performing basic bookkeeping
  • Collect requested data and information from various sources including email.
  • Responds to and resolve administrative inquiries and questions
  • Welcomes and directs visitors and client
  • Answers and transfers phone calls, screening when necessary
  • Keep Director’s office clean and tidy
  • Send list of product needed to suppliers for current prices
  • Do price matrix against current prices quoted by suppliers before given it to director
  • Do price negotiation with suppliers by quoting last shipment price i.e. if there has been increase in prices.
  • Check expiry dates of products
  • Confirmed prices and quantities, expiry dates with Director before reverting back to supplies
  • Follow up with all proforma list sent out to make sure I have received proforma invoice from all suppliers
  • Communicate loading date given by Director to suppliers to ensure goods are delivered on time
  • Prepare price matrix table for all final invoices received from suppliers to enable Director do final pricing
  • Prepare permit for consignment
  • Prepare excel sheet of all expected list or items with their expected quantities, total quantities received, shortages and overage for warehouse office to use in recording items received for shipment.
  • Any other duties assign by management and senior staff
  • ⁠Coordinating all front desk activities including answering all incoming calls
  • Providing information for callers, redirecting calls or taking accurate messages and passing it on to appropriate person in timely manner
  • ⁠Assist General Manager and Admin with payroll tasks such as setting up new starters, recording absence and annual leave processing leavers
  • ⁠Support senior management staff with day to day administrative tasks
  • ⁠I handle confidential personal and sensitive data and ensure it is maintained in very confidential manner at all times.

Teller

UniCredit Ghana Limited
Accra-Ghana, Greater-Accra
12.2014 - 07.2019
  • Cash checks and pay out money after verifying that signatures are correct, that written and numerical amounts agree, and that accounts have sufficient funds.
  • Receive checks and cash for deposit, verify amounts, and check accuracy of deposit slips.
  • Examine checks for endorsements and to verify other information such as dates, bank names, identification of persons receiving payments and legality of documents.
  • Order supply of cash to meet daily needs.
  • Processing foreign remittances
  • Checking daily cash brought in by field officers
  • Writing of summary book daily to make sure balances tally with cash in vault

Care Assistant

Methodist University College Hospital
Accra
09.2013 - 07.2014
  • Help patients with washing and dressing.
  • Demonstrated consistent respect and privacy for care users.
  • Conduct daily visits to their homes and performed various task also depending on individual needs.
  • Create mental stimulation by engaging in conversation with individuals who lacked social interaction.
  • Ensure had taken any prescribed medication
  • Help organized their prescribed medication so it makes it easy for them to take.
  • Monitor home in general and help with cleaning.
  • Help to support family and friends who wasn’t able to cope with caring for elderly.
  • Transferring client with hoist and sera steady.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Banking and Finance with French

Regent University College of Science And Technology
Accra -Ghana
11.2014

UK Advanced Level Certificate - A LEVEL

Lambeth College
Clapham Common, UK
09.2009

UK Ordinary Level Certificate - O LEVEL

Lambeth College
Clapham Common, UK
09.2008

Skills

  • Personal care and hygiene assistance
  • Medication prompting and support
  • Safeguarding vulnerable adults
  • Moving and handling procedures
  • Record keeping and care planning
  • Empathetic communication
  • Team work and time management
  • Risk assessment application
  • Self-Management
  • Infection control knowledge
  • Activities of Daily Living
  • Personal care

Certification

  • 22 CARE CERTIFICATE (CARESKILLS ACADEMY UK)
  • Basic Life Support
  • Catheter Care
  • A Care Worker Role
  • Duty of Care
  • Accessible Information
  • Autism
  • Medication Practice for Domiciliary Care
  • Food Hygiene
  • Moving and Handling
  • Oral Care
  • GDPR Stage One
  • Health and Safety
  • COSHH
  • GDPR Stage Two
  • Dementia Awareness
  • Fire Safety for Domiciliary Care
  • Pressure Area Care
  • Safeguarding and Protection of Adults
  • Infection Control
  • Induction Dementia
  • Care Certificate
  • Professional Boundaries

Timeline

Support worker

Willows-Healthcare
11.2025 - Current

Support worker

TRC HEALTHCARE STAFFING AGENCY
08.2025 - 11.2025

Family And Child Care

Self employed
11.2023 - 09.2024

Health care assistant

THE BANK HOSPITAL
08.2021 - 11.2023

MD Personal Secretary, General Secretary & Administrative Assistant

Royal Dach Pharmaceuticals
09.2019 - 10.2021

Teller

UniCredit Ghana Limited
12.2014 - 07.2019

Care Assistant

Methodist University College Hospital
09.2013 - 07.2014

Bachelor of Science - Banking and Finance with French

Regent University College of Science And Technology

UK Advanced Level Certificate - A LEVEL

Lambeth College

UK Ordinary Level Certificate - O LEVEL

Lambeth College
TRICIA ESSOUN-THOMPSON