Alex Kent
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Front of House/TECH/Team Leader
Regent Cinemas Ballarat
03.2012 - 11.2016
Camp Counsellor
YMCA Camp America / Camp Independence
06.2016 - 08.2016
Labouror
Maxitrans
01.2017 - 01.2018
Support Worker
Melba support services
01.2018 - 01.2020
- Ensuring all environments are safe for clients
- Administering medication
- Supporting Community access
- Supporting clients in living the best liveable circumstances possible
- Training new staff
- Working with complex needs
- Working towards independence and daily goals with participants.
Support Coordination
HealthAbility
01.2020 - 11.2021
- Conducting plan reviews and communicating with NDIS to get the best outcomes for participants to live their best life and utilisingall available funds
- Liaising with and implementing services, therapies and activities for participants based off funding from their NDIS plan
- Report writing (8 week, 9 month, Letters of support/recommendation)
- Budgeting within the NDIS funding given to the individual
- Quick thinking and problem solving when something doesn’t go as planned
- Working within a team to get the best results possible
- Achieving KPIs.
- IT skills and problem solving
- Building relationships and a rapport with Participants and Key stake holders
- Ensuring choice and control is being met for the participant.
Support Coordination (psychosocial)
GenU
11.2021 - 03.2022
- Working collaboratively with allied health and other services to assist participants reaching independence
- Report writing/budgeting
- Working with NDIS participants with psychosocial disabilities which at time, working with a case load of 30+ clients.
- Training in/Working with participants with suicidal ideations
- Building Rapports and working in a person centered approach
- Thinking outside the box to find the best solution for the individual
- Communication Via Email/Phone daily to professionals and participants.
Property Manager – Little Communities
Little Real Estate
03.2022 - 01.2023
- Undertook 5 weeks of training to learn Property management skills/strategies
- Conflict management
- Time management and organising meetings/routine inspections
- Communicating with/between Renters and Property managers
- Work with NDIS services/providers to ensure SDA accommodation needs are met
- Organising Maintenance for SDA properties
- Communicate with NDIS participants to ensure all housing needs are met in relation to property management.
Day Program Worker
GenU
01.2023 - 01.2024
- Ensuring Choice and Control is a priority.
- Assisting Participants to gain independence by assisting participants in daily tasks via verbal prompts.
- Ensuring Safety standards are being met in all environments.
- Assisting Participants in the community and in all programs as required.
Men's Community Connections Worker
Ballarat And District Aboriginal Co-operative
02.2024 - Current
- Work with male perpetrators using family violence between the ages of 14-60 years old
- Engage with clients around their behaviour within the home and what family violence looks like
- Work with other services around risk management and information sharing
- This includes AOD, Mental health, Family Safe Contact, Case Managers
- Assisting clients to identify goals and how they can achieve them
- Assist clients with emergency relief. Ie: Emergency accommodation, food relief
- Collaborate with clients and case managers to discuss triggers, coping strategies, gender natured violence and other topics of family violence and afterwards, continuing these conversations in a non clinical space within the community while working 1:1.
Australian Army Reserves
01.2023 - Current
Timeline
Men's Community Connections Worker
Ballarat And District Aboriginal Co-operative
02.2024 - Current
Day Program Worker
GenU
01.2023 - 01.2024
Australian Army Reserves
01.2023 - Current
Property Manager – Little Communities
Little Real Estate
03.2022 - 01.2023
Support Coordination (psychosocial)
GenU
11.2021 - 03.2022
Support Coordination
HealthAbility
01.2020 - 11.2021
Support Worker
Melba support services
01.2018 - 01.2020
Labouror
Maxitrans
01.2017 - 01.2018
Camp Counsellor
YMCA Camp America / Camp Independence
06.2016 - 08.2016
Front of House/TECH/Team Leader
Regent Cinemas Ballarat
03.2012 - 11.2016
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