Chris Riley

- Working with people throughout their recovery from severe and complex mental health concerns

- Recovery focused and strength based service delivery

- Work well in a team setting, providing support, guidance and leadership to other staff

- Working in the community and routinely engaging with services

- Supporting participants to identify goals and using a strengths-based approach to support them to work towards achieving them

- Growing connection with the local Aboriginal community and services

- Routinely used time management skills to increase productivity and manage my own self-care

- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office and service management systems

- Used interpersonal skills to develop relationships within and external to the organisation

- Work respectfully with all people accessing the service

- Completed organisation training including-

Understand Mental Health

Drug and Alcohol First Aid

Responding to the Risk of Suicide

Motivational Interviewing

- Use my lived experience to offer shared experiences and promote empowerment/self-determination

- Use empathy to build trust/rapport with participants and reduce the potential for shame or isolation

- Utilised other staff/management to navigate stressful situations

• Work as part of the harvest team to pick tomatoes
• Maintained respectful relationships within a diverse community of team members
• Resolved problems related to picking and improved upon performance based upon Quality Assessment feedback
• Maintained special emphasis on punctuality and worked to maintain attendance record
• Maintained excellent work ethic despite the challenging physical nature of the work and the exorbitant hours of a typical working day (Wake up at 5am, return home at 5-6pm)
• Demonstrated leadership skills by supervising new employees and reporting to the manager

Can provide reference when required.

• Worked extensively with Aboriginal students and family members to support their learning and manage behaviour issues
• Assisted teachers with classroom management to maintain a positive learning environment.
• Monitored student classroom and outdoors activities to promote student safety.
• Worked individually with students with disabilities to support their learning
• Communicated regularly with school staff and worked collaboratively with them to promote a positive learning environment
• Learned how to deal with highly stressful scenarios that would occur when working with students with autism and students with behavioural issues
• Provided individual liaison between Aboriginal students and classroom teachers to support their wellbeing from an Aboriginal perspective

Can provide reference if required.

• Greeted customers at counter to fulfill requests and answer questions.
• Operated cash register for cash and credit card transactions
• Replenished food stock and organised the store for optimal appearance.
• Adhered to safe work practices, food safety regulations and company guidelines.
• Prepared orders for customers in a fast paced environment (Suncorp Stadium)
• Kept supplies in sufficient stock by assessing inventory levels and reporting lower stock items.
• Co-ordinated with other team members to maintain an interrupted flow of customers
• Worked collaboratively with other team members to ensure of a safe environment for each other and the customers