Experience

The Growth Company: Education & Skills

• United Kingdom
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Training Centre & Sub Contractor Manager

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  Responsible for the successful design and delivery of industry/employability relevant training and development programmes which meet learner and employer needs in line with specific funding and quality standards and the financial targets of the delivery team.Also responsible for the procurement, development and management a range of Sub Contracted training provision for SFA, EFA and ESF to meet quality and financial targets, ensuring we maximise the use of our budget, meet all contractual requirements, and secure / enhance our quality and success rate performance.

• Placement Consultant

  • Jul 2019 - Jun 2021

  • Continually create and refresh an extensive caseload of businesses that enable individual and company Work Placement (including Traineeships) targets to be met across all occupational area.• Proactively carry out sales activity including cold calling, telesales and structured e-marketing and digital campaigns to employers and candidates to promote services• Carry out a professional and high quality employer resourcing service• Carry out a professional and high quality candidate resourcing service• Identify all student needs with regards to Work Placement (including Traineeships) and progression routes and provide effective solutions, accurately planning, tracking and recording progress• Carry out timely progress reviews and provide interventions/resolutions to barriers to progression• Agree and set targets with students to ensure learning and performance targets are met and exceeded. • Achieve outstanding progression rates from work placements to jobs and/or apprenticeships• Provide guidance, support and training services to recently employed/placed individuals • Constructively attend meetings, careers fairs, events and other promotional/sales activities • As required, to deliver employability related modules to prepare students for placement • As required, to source and develop materials relevant to the client groups in support of Study Programmes, involving the delivery of qualifications • Update company MI systems as required to log employer and student interactions• To comply with all Skills & Works Solutions H&S and Safeguarding processes and procedures. • To create and carry out all associated administration and funding paperwork to the meet the needs of SS policy and funding requirements • Complete necessary Awarding Body paperwork to a high standard• Ensure Work Placements are high quality (Fair Train Gold Standard compliant) and meet H&S, E&D and safeguarding requirements

• Mentor

  • Jun 2017 - Jul 2019

  As a Learning Mentor, I was responsible for contributing to generating new referrals by working with a wide range of stakeholders in order to promote participation and generate referrals to Service. I completed comprehensive individual initial diagnostic assessments with customers which would lead to an informed and personalised training and support plan.I delivered one to one interventions at inductions and assessments and subsequent follow up appointments by one to one or group sessions. I regularly operated referral and liaison procedures with other agencies as required (i.e. local referral partners, colleges, training providers and employers) to support peoples’ achievement of skills (including certification) and progression to employment, training and education.I worked as part of a team to co-ordinate and deliver advice, guidance and training interventions that met the needs of individuals who have had limited experience of employment and who face barriers to gaining and sustaining employment. I worked closely with key partners to build on, rather than duplicate the support that individuals have already received from other programmes and an intervention, ensuring the support is effectively sequenced and adds considerable value. I was responsible for organising the client training for the Wigan office. I would liaise with around 20 providers to book courses, ensure all paperwork is completed and compliant and clients receive their certification(s).



Ingeus

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Employment Advisor

  • Jun 2011 - May 2017

  Ingeus UK is the UK’s leading welfare-to-work provider delivering employment programmes to the long-term unemployed, recently unemployed and those with health conditions. As an Employment Advisor, I am responsible for assisting clients claiming JSA and ESA in their search to find sustainable employment. With a caseload of around 150 clients at any time, I am required to use my strong organisational and multi-tasking abilities to ensure I regularly exceed my monthly and quarterly targets. My role requires me to be flexible, empathetic and motivational. Working with clients through any barriers they face before starting their route to work. I help them to write and amend their CV, along with any cover and speculative letters they require. I am able to market clients successfully to employers, selling their skills and attributes effectively to give them the introduction that they require. I facilitate several different workshops to provide clients with skills and abilities in a group setting as well as individual appointments. I am also required to challenge client’s perceptions on wide range of subjects including timekeeping, reliability, productivity and job goals, assisting them to remove issues that are preventing them from returning to the workplace. Given the length of time that my clients have been unemployed, motivation is a large barrier and I play a key role in helping clients realise what motivates and drives them to achieve their goals and then put this into practice.



TNG Ltd

• Mining

• Placement Officer

  • Feb 2007 - Jun 2011

  My duties as Placement Officer were to provide realistic work experience and pastoral care to unemployed individuals of all ages. To identify and network with appropriate employers offering 13 week work placements which would be meaningful and capacity building for both clients and employers. I maintained weekly contact with each client on placement, ensuring that timekeeping and attendance were adhered to and that the employers were offering training suitable to each client's needs.



Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Certified Pharmacy Technician

  • Sep 2005 - Feb 2006

  As a Pharmacy Technician for NHS Cheshire, I would routinely monitor stocks of medicines on hospital wards and keep them topped up. I advised nurses on the correct storage of medicines, checked expiry dates and discussed the changing needs of the wards with the nurses and staff. I purchased medicines from pharmaceutical companies and wholesalers and dispensed prescriptions coming in from wards and outpatient clinics. On a rolling rota I would also work in the aseptic department, preparing extemporaneously, cancer treatment drugs and feeds for premature babies.



Donlons Pharmacy

• United States
• Cosmetics
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Dispensary Technician

  • Jul 2003 - Sep 2005

  During my time at Donlon’s Pharmacy my daily duties included the dispensing of ready-made medicines which includes duties like reading the prescriptions, sometimes removing the patient's medicine profile card from the file and placing it with the prescription for checking by the pharmacist, preparation of the label and preparation of the medical aid copy including the pricing of the prescriptions and sometimes giving notification to patients when a prescription is due for a repeat. I would advise customers using the service on medicines and products available over the counter, regularly liaising with the pharmacist to ensure excellent customer service and continuity of care.