Tricia Roes

• Design tailor made safari holidays to Africa based on client’s preferences and interests.
• Implement effective communication skills to build strong client relationships.
• Negotiate discounts, resulting in significant cost savings to clients.
• Implemented sales techniques to increase bookings and client satisfaction.

• Undertaking PAR (Prospective Adopter’s Report) assessments.
• Supporting Adopters throughout the process of being assessed to being matched with children and before a Placement Order is granted.
• Facilitating training for prospective adopters on attachment, developmental trauma and therapeutic parenting.

• Assessed Connected Person Foster Carers and Special Guardians.
• Chaired permanency planning meetings for children in foster care.
• Family finding for children looking for long-term foster placements.

• Social Worker for Adults and Older adults in the Jewish Community.

• Manager of Project providing psychological and medical support to the refugee population.
• Monitoring and evaluation of project through monitoring field visits.
• Prepared progress reports for donors and other internal reporting.
• Supervised, coached and mentored all staff members of the team.
• Held responsibility for project budget.

• Social Worker in a Pilot multidisciplinary team working with children in foster care and residential care.
• Reintegrated children who were accommodated in long-term foster care placements back into their families.
• Co-facilitated ‘Nurturing Attachments’ course for Foster Carers.

• Provided technical social work support to the social work team promoting family-based care instead of orphanages.
• Designed and facilitated training.
• Quality Assurance of social worker’s written assessments and social work team policies and procedures, making recommendations for improvement.
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Set up the evaluation for reintegration program to show the long-term outcomes of children based in family-based care.
• Member of the National Association of Social Workers Uganda (NASWU) working group, advocating for regulation of the social work profession.
• Developed safeguarding training for VSO to facilitate to their staff, volunteers, and partners.

• Assess, supervise and support Connected Person’s Carers and Special Guardians.
• Assess and monitor private fostering arrangements.

Social Worker for 11-16 year old children who were at risk of going into foster care.

• Investigated child abuse allegations, completed assessments and care plans for children.
• Carried out risk assessments to protect children.
• Negotiated solutions with parents and young people to prevent young people from going into foster care and remain within their family network.
• Practice Assessor for Social Work Student during their placement.