WINIFRED OWUSU-ANSAH

Currently on 100-day final placement with Early Help - Leytonstone Family Hub Team.

• Engaging in signposting and referring families and children in need to services available for them through structured criteria
• Engaging in shadowing opportunities within the Children and Families social work team to enhance my professional practice and learning development
• Engaging in multi-disciplinary and inter-professional practice on complex cases through assessments to provide support and interventions for children and families in need
• Engaging in direct casework with children to provide social services and safeguard them

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Emirates Stadium, London Stadium, Wembley Stadium, Chelsea Stadium, and O2 Arena.

• Operating tills to process sale transactions, returns and orders at football matches and events,
• Maintaining a tidy and organised store environment to comply with cleanliness standards,
• Stocking and restocking products, clearly labelling items and arranging according to size,
• Greeting customers, helping to locate products, and suggesting suitable options,
• Actively engaging customers to provide general assistance and information on products,
• Working closely with the team leader to solve problems and handle customer concerns.

Working as an individual living specialist support worker in an organization that supports adults with learning disabilities, autism, and their families, I was responsible for;

• Engaging in risk assessment & implementing support plans to help respond to triggers for behavior and to provide individualized support for adults in need
• Providing personal care and support and helping with activities of daily living
• Organizing community outreach programs and activities to help adults engage and develop skills useful to them
• Engaging in providing emotional support to improve emotional well-being.

70-day placement with the Camden Adult Social Care-Royal Free Hospital Discharge and Assessment Team

• Identified and engaged in simple and complex caseloads to develop my professional practice and also through the development of my skills, enhanced my knowledge as a social worker,
• Engaged in shadowing opportunities with different areas of social work practice within the Camden Adult Social Care social work team and other professional and disciplinary teams,
• Liaised with other agencies and professionals to provide care and support for service users to enable them to maximise independence,
• Engaged in direct work with individuals within the Camden borough from diverse backgrounds,
• Led and completed hospital discharge support plans and assessments with service users to receive care packages from pathways 1 and 3 of the hospital discharge process.

• Providing personal care and support to people in their own homes in line with an agreed care and support plan
• Providing care for service users in non-discriminatory ways, respecting each user’s dignity, individuality, cultural and social background and independence
• Engaging in inter-professional and multi-disciplinary working in order to provide an integrated approach to people’s health and care.
• Contributing to individual well-being and safeguarding service users to protect them from risk, abuse, and harm.

• Working with senior course representatives and academic staff to ensure information to the student body is always updated,
• Attending regular departmental meetings and sharing chairing responsibilities with my colleagues to ensure positive change is made at the course level,
• Gathering feedback from the student body, providing it to the staff, and discussing it during departmental meetings.

• Assisted in working on payrolls of staff members,
• Prepared memos, and official letters to be distributed to all staff members,
• Utilized Microsoft Excel and Word to prepare and update data of staff members,
• Transcribed reports from disciplinary committee meetings,
• Issued leave forms and other relevant forms to all staff members and handled confidential information of staff members,
• Carried out day-day-day duties accurately and efficiently,
• Performed any other duties assigned by my supervisor.

• Reported back to lead supervisor to receive day-to-day tasks and responsibilities,
• Assisted in organizing and implementing recreational activities for students,
• Performed administrative duties and staff support tasks,
• Helped students manage and reach individual goals, supporting independent progression by teaching basic and social skills,
• Liaise with other professionals to provide care and support for activities of daily living for students to maintain self-esteem and general wellness.

Social Services Department

• Provided medical assistance for children and persons in need of it,
• Assisted in handling cases of domestic violence, abuse, and other social problems,
• Counselled and educated patients on social problems during daily ward round visits,
• Assisted in the tracing of family relatives of unknown patients,
• Performed administrative duties and staff support tasks on all casework,
• Reported back to supervisor to receive day-to-day tasks and responsibilities.