Kassia Burgess

• Establish and maintain professional relationships with women, families and colleagues to ensure provision of safe, quality maternity care
• Clinical duties providing antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal and neonatal care
• Identify, assess and manage complexity and risk, ensuring timely consultation, referral and documentation
• Ongoing self-reflection and engaging in professional development to ensure implementation of safe, effective evidenced based practice

• General administration/ reception tasks - phones, emails, placing orders, responding to customer enquiries and complaints.

• Supervising and providing care to children whilst ensuring a safe environment at all times.
• Following government guidelines for kindergarten learning for planning and implementing education programs for children.
• Assessing and providing feedback on child development
• Administrative tasks including program planning and updating children’s’ files

Playgroup facilitation and mentoring

• Build and maintain strong positive relationships with children, families and communities
• Plan and implement culturally engaging activities and outings to support the learning and development of children aged 0-5
• Build and maintain relationships with other agencies such as schools, medical services, Allied
• Enhance women’s capacity to advocate for their children through facilitating participation in decision making

Training & Employment

• Delivery Cert II Children’s Services meeting the National Training Standards
• Practical assistance and support to complete employment documentation
• Ongoing mentoring and support for the women during playgroup

• Teaching a wide range of primary and secondary school classes from Prep through to Year 12.
• Liaising with the teaching staff at the school to ensure continuity in learning during my time with the class.
• Overseeing the development and facilitating of lesson plans in line with the curriculum and individual school ethos.

• Providing culturally appropriate intervention and casework services to children and families through the use of crisis intervention, family support, consultation, counselling, conflict resolution, liaison, advocacy and negotiation strategies.
• Liaising with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders to provide both written and verbal advice on casework matters and to assist with the decision making process.
• Managing client enquiries and complaints in a professional and courteous manner. I would also work with the individual to ensure their needs were addressed and appropriate solutions put in place.