Madeline Forbes
Design & Development Coordinator at Diabetes Queensland- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Diabetes Queensland
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Australia
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Design & Development Coordinator
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Nov 2021 - Present
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Research Assistant
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Oct 2019 - Nov 2021
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Staffing Options
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United States
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Staffing and Recruiting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Community Support Worker
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Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
- Working autonomously with no supervision - Completion of preliminary NDIS documentation (participant’s statement) - Advocacy for client’s rights - Use of facilitated communication to allow expression from non-verbal client - Management: managing staff rosters, checking and finalising fortnight salaries, creating weekly schedule and budget. - Stakeholder engagement with public housing departments, police liaisons, family and the community. - Adherence to workplace health and safety procedures. - Ability to analysis potential risks, anticipate scenarios, manage difficult behaviours, and diffuse situations. - Assist client to regulate excessive anxiety and continue with daily activities.
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Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service
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Australia
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Hospitals and Health Care
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100 - 200 Employee
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Evaluation Project (University Capstone)
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Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
- Analysis of Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service's social media and promotional strategies for the "10,000 Lives" smoking cessation movement. - Providing recommendations to increase the reach and engagement of this movement within the Central Queensland community, to move Central Queensland closer to the ambitious goal of saving 10,000 Lives from smoking-related illness by the year 2030. - Analysis of Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service's social media and promotional strategies for the "10,000 Lives" smoking cessation movement. - Providing recommendations to increase the reach and engagement of this movement within the Central Queensland community, to move Central Queensland closer to the ambitious goal of saving 10,000 Lives from smoking-related illness by the year 2030.
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Northern Territory PHN
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Australia
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Hospitals and Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Graduate Project Officer - Needs Assessment
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Dec 2018 - Feb 2019
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Queensland Health
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Australia
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Researcher
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Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
- Researching the reinfection period for diseases to assist in clarification of diagnosis guidelines. - Conduction of literature review. - Autonomous work. - Researching the reinfection period for diseases to assist in clarification of diagnosis guidelines. - Conduction of literature review. - Autonomous work.
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Menzies Institute for Medical Research
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Australia
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Research Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Field Research Assistant
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Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
- Professional collection of personal and sensitive health information, dealt with respect and privacy. - Strict adherence to research protocol - Professional collection of personal and sensitive health information, dealt with respect and privacy. - Strict adherence to research protocol
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Emerge Australia Inc
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Australia
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Hospitals and Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Peer Support Officer
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Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
- Researching best practice in Peer Support through networking similar organisations and analysis of literature - Stakeholder engagement to share resources and knowledge. - Using excel based spreadsheets of incoming calls and emails, to collate and analyse data for presentation in a needs analysis report. - Researching best practice in Peer Support through networking similar organisations and analysis of literature - Stakeholder engagement to share resources and knowledge. - Using excel based spreadsheets of incoming calls and emails, to collate and analyse data for presentation in a needs analysis report.
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Victorian Department of Health
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Disability Support
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Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
- Supported clients in a range of community and household activities. - Experience with workplace health and safety: use of hoists, manual handling, wheelchairs. - Experience with disruptive behaviours, ability to divert or diffuse situations - Experience in non-verbal communication methods, refining ability to understand non-verbal cues and adapt own communication verbally and non-verbally. - Monitoring of client’s personal health, overseeing consumption of medications. - Experience with reports in forms of case notes, incident reports. - Consultation with medical professionals on clients’ behalf, advocating for clients
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Integration aide
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Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
- Supported a prep student integrate into first year of primary school. - Altered classwork to suit students learning style and ability. - Assisted all children in understanding class content and making informed decisions both academically and socially. - Created and implemented communication systems, involving physical communication boards and electronic Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS). - Influenced decision making to increase child’s learning ability - Liaison with external stakeholders (Down Syndrome Victoria, Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, etc.) to allow cohesive group decisions to best support the child.
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Education
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The University of Queensland
Master's degree, Public Health (Health Promotion and Disease Prevention) -
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physiology, General -
Girton Grammar School