Experience

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  Propeller

  • London, England, United Kingdom

  • Project Manager

    • Aug 2023 - Aug 2023
    • London, England, United Kingdom

    • Led project kick off meeting and responsible for defining the objectives, scope, miles stone and budget requirements for each project. • Accountable for Identifying, manage, and anticipate any project risks and issues. Creating and managing a risk log and flagging any issues with relevant stakeholders. • Compiled and submited project status reports to clients, management and other stakeholders.• Developed excellent leadership, customer relations and communication skills to liaise effectively with all project stakeholders.• Responsible for ensuring the team is working towards the projects requirements, deadlines and on budget.• Worked closely with the design & UX team to ensure all requirements are accurately reflected in the designs and work is of the highest quality.• Planned and manage Sprints in JIRA.• Worked with the Quality Assurance (QA) team on the approach to testing. Ensure that any client-facing outputs are tested for bugs.• Maintained data in Synergist, or other reporting tools, accurately and in a timely manner.

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  Izinza Valleys

  • London, England, United Kingdom

  • Founder

    • Apr 2022 - Aug 2023
    • London, England, United Kingdom

    Izinza Valleys believes in independence, empowering people and communities, and bringing about sustainable change. Our work focuses on working alongside local people and helping them come up with solutions to their problems. Our aim is to develop and install a hydroelectric energy in Mwenga, South Kivu, Eastern D R Congo. We hope this would bring energy that would be supplied to local schools, churches, hospitals and businesses to enable the local population to thrive. Our work has been inspired by other brilliant organisations around the world and the local people of the Congo who are dedicated in having long lasting positive impact on our planet.

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  Hammersmith & Fulham Council

  • Parenting Support Service Lead (Youth Justice Service)

    • Jun 2022 - May 2023

    • I led and oversaw the service delivery of parenting support through evidence-based interventions to help reduce the risk of family conflict and breakdown. • Responsible for working within the Youth Justice Services to help reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in Hammersmith and Fulham Council.• Developing detailed interventions plans to guide clients and management, and ensuring that they are stored properly and kept up to date in the system. • Compiling and submitting interventions status reports to clients, management and other stakeholders.• Management of individual cases including scoping, risk, stakeholder management and ensuring deadlines are met on time. • Undertaking high volumes of comprehensive telephone screening and triage, gathering relevant information from a wide range of sources, triangulating for final decisions. • Chaired Team Around the Family (TAF) meetings with clients and other services (YJS and Health) to triage and RAG rate concerns and prepare reports to escalate any safeguarding concerns to management and relevant teams. • Accountable for rolling out, overseeing and leading 1-to-1 and group support sessions with parents and young people. • Responsible for creating and implementing behaviour management strategies, including leading conflict resolution between families by helping parents develop household routines.• Providing analysis of stakeholders needs and circumstances making recommendations for interventions and actions.• Managed tracking service progress• Oversaw and led in training programmes of new staff recruits on best practice on obtaining voice of the client and holistic approach. • Supervised a team of two Parenting Practitioners.

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  Southwark Council

  • London, England, United Kingdom

  • FEH Lead Practitioner

    • Feb 2021 - Jun 2022
    • London, England, United Kingdom

    • Designated safeguarding lead overseeing the East locality schools. • Responsible for ensuring attendance and any safeguarding concerns were effectively monitored and escalated to the Educational Welfare Officer and any other partner agencies, as appropriate.• Advised schools and other partner agencies on how to manage concerns and implementing plans to enable young people and their families continue to engage with schools.• Acted as lead professional and coordinate Team meetings, holding others to account for the delivery of agreed actions. This often involves both external and internal colleagues and senior management.• Regularly provided written and verbal reports to senior management that demonstrate appropriate analysis of issues within a project/case progress.• Managed a complex caseload of clients with competing demands as needs arise, ensuring timescales for case work are adhered to whilst demonstrating best practice to other less experienced staff. Creating and conducting an assessment that considers risk factors and come up with risk management methods to avoid or accept the risk by assessing the impact it would have on the client/project at hand.• Acted as a lead professional and worked with clients to assess their needs and develop an Intervention plan to achieve agreed outcomes.• Reviewing progress of project plans regularly and plan exit strategies to sustain progress.• Spearheaded a new Consultation Line in order to better improve the services used and enabling both clients and external professionals to easily reach and access the services without much delay resulting to Breaking-down an average of 100 referrals a week.

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  t-three

  • London, England, United Kingdom

  • Project Manager

    • Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
    • London, England, United Kingdom

    • Successful management of multiple high value business development consultancy projects including initiation, delivery and closure in a fast-paced environment.• Supporting project pitch to project completion, ensuring Statements of Work and Contracts are completed and in place, these ranging from £100,000 to £1 million contracts.• Project planning and tracking of programs for new and existing clients and acting as first point of contact, ensuring projects meet client’s specific requirements and are delivered to a high standard, on time and on budget.• Collaboration with team and external stakeholders to ensure efficient and comprehensive realisation of client goals. Notably, delivery of the House of Lords & University of Cambridge MIRE/ Coalition of the Willing portfolio - amounting to £1M.

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  Brent Council

  • MASH screening Officer

    • Jul 2018 - Nov 2020

    As a Social Work Consultant, I worked within the MASH department where I delivered statutory services for children, young people and families in line with the relevant legislation including The Children Act 1989. Responsibilities included:• Holding an allocated caseload with responsibilities for the provision of direct services to children in need and their families. This involved carrying out assessments of need and providing practical and supportive services based on those assessments, reviewing plans for children and families including child in need plans and support plans within the London Borough of Brent’s policies and procedures. To coordinate multi-agency support plans.• Writing reports, maintaining records and attending any meetings or Case Conferences in relation to children and young people, parents or carers. To provide specific reports in cases where the Department is involved in legal proceedings and to attend the court as necessary.• Providing practical and supportive services to those service users for whom they are the allocated worker. This will include working with children and families in need of support, families on the threshold of child protection concerns, those subject to child protection plans and/or care plans.• Acting as a source of advice and expertise to families, health, education and social care professionals in developing and implementing agreed care plans for children and young people.• Providing families with practical advice in relation to budgeting, parenting and household management and to provide basic rights welfare advice etc.

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  Haringey Council

  • Family Practitioner

    • Jul 2017 - Jul 2018

    As a Family Practitioner, I improved the outcomes for vulnerable children, young people and families within Haringey. Prevented escalation of need and reduced demand for statutory services, ensuring children and young people are safeguarded by identifying and addressing child protection issues and concerns with colleagues as appropriate. Responsibilities included:• Develop whole family, multi-agency outcome focused support plans which respond to the needs of families and provide effective tailored, timely and sequenced interventions.• Deliver family support work and evidence based interventions with children, young people and families through group work and one-to-one support, and ensure timely access to interventions provided by other agencies.• Work persistently to empower, challenge and support families to achieve goals, providing practical ‘hands on’ support, and building families’ resilience.• Work in partnership with young people, parents and families to: increase their confidence and capacity in parenting; encourage containing and nurturing relationships with attachment with their children; promote their children’s development; and improve safety and hygiene in the home.• Manage a caseload of between 12 – 20 families with additional needs and/ or multiple and complex needs.• Use the team’s case management system to record all required information on families to track progress and support effective case management at a team level.• Work within a Team Around the Family approach taking on the role as Lead Professional as required, and lead/ challenge other professionals to deliver agreed actions towards targeted outcomes. • Adhere to safeguarding, information sharing and risk assessment protocols within Adults and Children and Young People’s Services, communicating risks/ issues early and taking account of personal safety and the safety of others.

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  St Christopher's Fellowship

  • 1 Putney High St, London SW15 1SZ

  • Peripatetic Support Worker

    • Sep 2015 - Jun 2017
    • 1 Putney High St, London SW15 1SZ

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  Look Ahead Care and Support

  • Shepherds bush, London

  • Support Worker

    • Nov 2014 - Apr 2015
    • Shepherds bush, London

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  YMCA Cambridgeshire & Peterborough

  • Cambridge, United Kingdom

  • Assistant Project Worker

    • Mar 2014 - Sep 2014
    • Cambridge, United Kingdom