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BETH MARIE PARKINSON

Clifton Grove,NSW

Summary

Experienced professional support worker with a strong ability to provide exceptional care and assistance to individuals with disabilities. Cultivates a positive and inclusive environment to promote client independence and overall well-being. Collaborates effectively with team members to achieve desired outcomes and adapts to evolving needs. Displays empathy and patience in all interactions, ensuring the highest level of support and satisfaction for clients.

Overview

31
31
years of professional experience

Work History

Disability Support Worker

LiveBetter Pty Ltd.
10.2017 - Current

Experience in:

  • Day Program
  • Community Access
  • Group Homes


Duties Performed:

  • Provided personal care such as dressing, grooming, bathing, and toileting patients.
  • Transported clients both in wheelchairs and clients able to walk to social outings and appointments.
  • Developed strong trusting relationships with by empathizing with them, assisting in meeting goals in their care plans and consistently helping them to be successful in life skills.
  • Supported clients in maintaining a clean, safe and risk free home by assisting with household tasks such as laundry, meal preparation, and general tidying.
  • Kept correct and detailed daily logs with activities, patient behaviors, and incidents.
  • Prepared nutritious meals that adhered to client's meal plans created by their speech therapists.
  • Provided safe manual handling such as using a sling for wheelchair clients and assisting clients to safely board and disembark from the bus for clients with varying physical needs.
  • Implemented behavior management techniques that adhered to the individual behavior support plan when required for the safety of both clients and staff members involved.
  • Managed medications effectively for clients using the medication administration techniques taught by nurses in the training sessions. Client's medication plans were strictly adhered to.
  • Adhered to NDIS guidelines in administering patient care.

Disability Support Worker

Living My Way Ltd.
01.2017 - 10.2017

Provided In Home Care for a disabled client:


Duties Performed:

  • Provided personal care such as dressing, grooming, bathing, and toileting the client.
  • Supported the client in maintaining a clean, safe and risk free home by assisting with household tasks such as laundry, meal preparation, and general tidying.
  • Provided safe manual handling such as using a sling for the wheelchair client.
  • Implemented behavior management techniques that adhered NDIS practices.
  • Managed medications effectively for the client. Medication instructions from the doctor were strictly adhered to.
  • Adhered to NDIS guidelines in administering patient care.


Canteen Volunteer

Orange Public School
01.2016 - 01.2017
  • Prepared and sold canteen meals to students.

Volunteer

Riding for the Disabled Association
01.2012 - 01.2014

Duties Performed:

  • Used strong communication skills to interact with disabled group members.
  • Communicated with staff members to carry out activities and responsibilities.
  • Helped to provide people with disabilities with a fun environment in which to grow and improve skills.

Sales & Marketing Secretary

MSD
01.1999 - 01.2001

Duties Performed:

  • Preparing monthly call sheet reports
  • Arranging travel: flight, hotel, and car bookings
  • Organising conferences: flights, hotels, venues, visas
  • Compiling and distributing reports on a daily basis
  • Printing and distributing sales reports
  • Ordering samples of medication for sales representatives
  • Processing expense claims for sales team
  • General reception for department

Secretary

STOCKS & LEISURE
01.1998 - 01.1998

Duties Performed:

  • Assisting in accounts:
  • Capturing levies, discounts, reversing interest
  • Carrying out bookkeeping duties for sales department
  • Typing correspondence
  • Handling client inquiries
  • Calculating monthly commission for sales staff
  • Reimbursing petty cash
  • Organising diary for Sales Manager
  • Assisting5 other management sales staff

Secretary

HATCH Africa (Pty) Ltd.
01.1997 - 01.1998

Duties Performed:

  • Converting company’s files from Word Perfect to Word7
  • Designing standard templates for the company’s documents
  • Typing documents
  • Capturing data
  • Providing software support
  • Calculating interest on overdue accounts and prepared invoices

Secretary

KNIGHT WILLIAMS
01.1994 - 01.1995


Duties Performed:

  • Personal Assistant to Director of IT and Operations
  • Capturing data
  • Typing correspondence
  • Preparing cost reports
  • Organizing IT help desk
  • Maintaining IT staff’s diary

Education

No Degree - Disability Studies

University of South Africa
01.1997

Timeline

Disability Support Worker

LiveBetter Pty Ltd.
10.2017 - Current

Disability Support Worker

Living My Way Ltd.
01.2017 - 10.2017

Canteen Volunteer

Orange Public School
01.2016 - 01.2017

Volunteer

Riding for the Disabled Association
01.2012 - 01.2014

Sales & Marketing Secretary

MSD
01.1999 - 01.2001

Secretary

STOCKS & LEISURE
01.1998 - 01.1998

Secretary

HATCH Africa (Pty) Ltd.
01.1997 - 01.1998

Secretary

KNIGHT WILLIAMS
01.1994 - 01.1995

No Degree - Disability Studies

University of South Africa
BETH MARIE PARKINSON