Child / Nanny / In-home Care Related Experience

Dates: 2018 – Jul 2020
Company: Private
Position: Nanny and Disability Support Worker

• Keep parents informed of children’s progress and behaviour, implementing agreed-on discipline procedures;
• Performed light housekeeping duties, prepared nutritional meals, assisted with homework and other learning needs.
• Dressing children appropriate to the child's activities, scheduling and coordinating children's activities, transporting children to school and other activities, shopping for children's requirements, undertaking appropriate creative and outdoor activities with the children;
• Assisting with medication administration, assessing client to determine continuing needs, assistance in building client self-image and self-confidence;
• Assisted children with special needs and learning disabilities, overseeing safety and well-being of children;
• Helped maintain the cleanliness and sanitation of learning, playing, and eating areas;
• Fostered strong relationships with children and parents to ensure their involvement in their children’s behavioural, psychological, and emotional growth;
• Organised fun and educational games read storybooks that increased children’s interest in story time, and plan outdoor activities such as walking to the local playground, talking about nature, and being creative;
• Meet with parents on a weekly basis to discuss plans for the following week, as well as any other concerns;
• Encouraged children to take risks, make mistakes, persist, think outside the box, assess situations from different perspectives and work cooperatively;
• Take care when administering medications, ensuring correct doses are provided and medication was stored correctly.

Dates: 2018
Position: Full-time Nanny
Company: Private Family
Port Macquarie

Caring for 2 very robust and active little boys aged between 16 months and 3 years where I was responsible for getting the boys up and ready for the day, organising daily routine including activities and outings, age appropriate learning and engaging activities, reading, arts and crafts, preparing snacks and meals, changing nappies, preparing bottles, feeding, settling, bathing and all associated household duties.

Dates: 2010 to 2017
Position: Full-time Nanny / Au-Pair 
Company: Private Family
Mum was a Detective for Child Protection

Duties: Caring for two children from 6 weeks through to 3 and  5 years.  Preparing of meals, pre school drop off and pick up, administering medicine as required, housework as required, Driving children to and from activities, teaching good manners, bathing routine and assisting children with dressing.  I lived on the Central Coast and the family lived in Newcastle so I would travel and stay overnight.

Dates: 2017 to 2018
Position: Community Carer / Support Worker
Company: Catholic Care of the Aged

Dates: 2007 to 2010
Position: Carer 
Company: Uniting Care / Hammond Care

Duties: Assisted with Dementia / Pallative Stroke / Disability patients, providing friendly, compassionate support with daily living. Assisted with personal care, hygiene, showing and dressing of various patients. Prepared meals, household duties and outdoor activities including hydro therapy. 

Dates: 2003 to 2005
Position: Community Carer / Support Worker
Company: Uniting Care Belrose / Just Better Care

Duties: Personal care within the home incuding assisting with children ranginging age from 0 to 5 years with special needs and the elderly with showing, dressing, food preparation, feeding of patients, household duties including cleaning and assisting patients to doctor appointments

Other Work History

Dates: 2005 to 2007
Position: Colour and Showroom Consultant
Company: Tile Direct / De Lorenzo Tiles

Duties: Colour and tile selections for clients, cash handling, fixing all displays, processing of invoices, drawing plans, liasing with project home managers and deliveries

Dates: 2002 to 2003
Position: 
Company: Phlebotomy / Venipuncture Course Gosford (IMater)

Duties: Specimen Collection and handling

Dates: 1998 to 2002
Position: Receptionist / Administration Assistant
Company: Ellison & Tiffen Mortgage Brokers

Duties: Reception general duties such as filing, typing and anwsering of phones, Electronic low documnet inventory, client correspondance and scheduling appointments

Dates: 1987 to 1993
Position: Personal Assistant to the General Manager
Company: Watson & Davey Solicitors / Qilliam Wallbank & Sons

Duties: Day to day running of the office, accounts payable, petty cash, prepare figures for monthly payments to contractors, monthly sales reports, supervison of 2 administration staff, customer service, reception duties, organise meetings, organise overseas trips, mail, banking and hand delivieries

1987 - Model Farms High School
Certificate in Aged Care - Part Complete