Jun 08 – Current
Solecharge Part-time Nanny – May Family, Malabar
Roles and Responsibilities: Caring for one newborn girl at commencement as a sole charge carer. Duties included changing nappies, following a routine, sterilizing bottles, introducing solids, family’s laundry and cooking of meals.

Jun 08 – Current
Solecharge Part-time Nanny – Henry Family, Glebe
Roles & Responsibitlies: Caring for two children aged 9 months and 2.5 years at commencement.

2006 - Current
Solecharge Casual Nanny – Clovelly
Roles & Responsibilities: Caring for one boy initially from newborn to 2 years and his younger sister born 6 months ago. Duties include those listed in the above role.

2004 – Current
EAP Teacher – Australian Centre for Languages
Roles & Responsibilities: Teaching pre-university students three days per week. Lisa was also the Student Social Programs Co-ordinator from 2004 – 2007. Some of Lisa’s achievements during the time are as follows:

2007 - Writing freelance for Jan Smith of Janco Publishing’s on a weekly basis in the development of educational materials associated with the Behind The News

Until July 2008 - Worked in ongoing Integrated Health with Jason Mallia where she was his assistant learning about the new technologies of Live Blood Analysis, the Life System and other liver-detox programs.

2003 – 2006
Literacy Teacher – The Learning Centre, Cronulla & Rose Bay
Roles & Responsibilities: Teaching early literacy to children aged 3-13 years and some had complex needs such as autism and challenging behaviour. It was her role to mediate with the child’s family and school on their ongoing academic progress as she undertook an educational program with the child. Lisa was required to make an initial educational assessment to determine the child’s learning style and reading level using a variety o f education al assessment methods such as visualising and verbalising and Spalding. From her assessment and after consultation with the school and family, Lisa would allocate the child a suitable program. She was required to submit a written report of the child’s progress weekly and comprehensively at the conclusion of the child’s time with the centre. Lisa still works here on a casual basis.

2003 – 2004
Teacher – Adult Migrant English Program and TAFE, Sutherland
Roles & Responsibilities: Working in the capacity of teacher with newly arrived migrants and refuges in government funded English programs. This was particularly challenging work, as many of the students allocated to Lisa were not literate in their native language so Lisa was often facilitating the learning of a very diverse group of needs from basic literacy skills through to functional English for entering the workforce within the one classroom. This work drew on Lisa’s strengths of empathy and emotional maturity in dealing with some students who were survivors of torture and trauma.

2003 – 2004
Volunteer Teacher –Rockdale Migrant Resource Centre
Roles & Responsibilities: volunteer teacher with newly arrived Spanish speaking migrants particularly youth and elderly. She was responsible for programming and implementing her own lesson plan to run weekly conversation and grammar classes for the purpose of facilitating the participants into a smoother transition into Australian society. In particular, Lisa was assisting the youth in their integration into the school system.

1999 – 2003 : Bachelor of Arts (Journalism) Uni of Technology
2003 – 2004 : Postgraduate Certificate in TESOL
2005 – 2008 : Advanced Diploma in Naturopathy
Current : Master of Social Work (Griffith University)
Current: Graduate Diploma in Counselling (ACAP)