Kim Nolan

Curriculum vitae Name: Kim Nolan Address: Ballykealy Ballon Co.Carlow Telephone number:- Nationality: Irish Date of birth: 22/02/1991 Education: Third Level Education Applied Social Studies in Social Care studied in St.Patricks College Carlow, where I have achieved a Higher Certificate in subjects including, Family studies, Disability Studies, Psychology, Social Policy, Social Care, Creative studies and Legal studies. I have gained my Level 8 in Applied Social Care in Carlow IT. Work Experience: July 2006- February 2007: Vivo shop in Ballon, Duties included: Opening and closing shop, handling money and using the cash register, dealing with customers, stocking store, using the credit card and lottery machine. February 2007- May 2011: Ballykealy Manor Hotel, Duties include: General waitressing work, Some reception work e.g. taking bookings,answering calls, dealing with queries and taking payments.Dealing with customers and complaints, setting up and organising the functioning room and restaurant, handling money, general clean-up of the kitchen,bedrooms,fuctionion room and restaurant. Using various machines e.g. coffee machine and cash register. December 2010 – February 2016: Warehouse fashions: Duties include: Customer service, handling complaints, office work (e.g. reports, filing trade and staff sheets, emails) merchandising, fitting room service, till operation, opening/closing store. January 2016 – January 2018: NUA Healthcare: Residential and Homecare Services Working with people with intellectual disabilities, mental health issues, addiction, autism, brain injuries and challenging behaviour. Identifying needs, advocating for service users, accompanying to appointments and supporting service users. Recording files/logs/kardex and administering medication, completing risk assessments, completing transitions, key working. Under the new ways of working system I took on the role of house administrator which included updated personal plans, putting together daily plans and presenting weekly reports to the team leader. Within the company I have also spent a number of months working in the homecare department due to emergency cases. While there I became more involved with outreach programmes and community inclusion. Before employment I spent three months with Nua Healthcare on work placement. April 2018- August 2018: Support 4 U Working within the home setting, identifying the needs of children. Supporting children in reaching and identifying their goals and aspirations. Children within the services are supported with a range of issues including mental health, domestic violence, intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour. Daffodil Care October 2018- Present Mainstream Children’s Residential Working with people with mental health issues, addiction and challenging behaviour etcetera. Identifying needs, advocating for service users, accompanying to appointments and supporting service users. Recording files/logs/kardex and administering medication, completing risk assessments, completing transitions, key working. Accompanying to court hearings. Accessing and informing teenagers of the services available and applicable to them. Encourage development of individual interests and attitudes. To promote, safeguard and protect the welfare of each young person. To assist and support Young People through the process of leaving care. St. Vincent de Paul October 2018 – Present Emergency Accommodation Working with people with mental health issues, addiction and challenging behaviour etcetera. To ensure the practical need of the service users are met, by providing services such as laundry, accommodation and food. To provide a safe and secure environment for both service users and staff. To carry out security inspection both inside and outside the hostel. To arranges transport of service users in time of emergency. To keep up to date records and ensure that all reports are correct and complete. To liaise with all outside agencies on behalf of the service users (i.e. Gardaí, HSE, etc) Carlow College Work experience: March – May 2010 Tullow Day Care Centre: Duties: Serving meals, interacting with service users, aiding them to the bathroom, playing activities and helping them in and out of chairs etc, identifying needs. College Work Experience : Feb – April 2011 Ballon/Rathoe Child Care Facility: Duties: Teaching children, helping them with homework, feeding them, aiding with day to day development needs. Also done work experience in the Ballon Rathoe childcare facility in 2009. Certificates to date COURSE TITLE & TRAINING ORGANISATION YEAR COMPLETED MAPA training 2017 SAMMS 2018 Fire Safety 2018 Challenging Behaviour 2018 Continence 2016 Manual Handling 2016 Children First 2018 Key Working 2016 Equality and Diversity 2016 Recognition and reporting abuse 2016 Principles of person centred 2016 Incident report writing 2016 Occupational First Aid 2019 Risk Assessment 2017 Safegaurding 2017 Child Protection 2018 References: Ms. Anne Marie Kehoe, Warehouse Carlow, Shaws Department Store, Tullow Street, Carlow - Mr. Ian Farrell Ballykealy Manor Hotel, Ballykealy Ballon, Co.Carlow - Michelle Kirwan, St. John’s Lane, Naas, Kildare. --