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Work History
Education
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Professional Skills Development And Trainings
Professional Placements
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Sabina Karki

Marayong

Summary

I am a reliable and service-focused individual with broad range of skills and abilities. I am a social work graduate hoping to find an opportunity for my future career. I worked as an Assistant in Nursing (AIN), where I was responsible for caring the elderly people in nursing home. I am now ready to take the next step in my career in a new and exciting role with my following skills:

  • Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude and Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
  • To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
  • Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
  • Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level social work job position. Ready to help team achieve company goals.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Intern Nutrition and Hygiene Officer

Save the Children Nepal
01.2015
  • Internship role focused on nutrition and hygiene.

Adolescent Counsellor

Orphanage Homes in Nepal
01.2015
  • Voluntary counseling work at orphanage homes.

Caregiver

Estia Health
10.2019 - 01.2023
  • Assisted clients with daily living needs to maintain self-esteem and general wellness.
  • Assisted with dressing guidance, grooming, meal preparation, and medication reminders.
  • Engaged patients in meaningful conversation, socialization, and activity while providing personal care assistance.
  • Built strong relationships with clients to deliver emotional support and companionship.
  • Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
  • Provided safe mobility support to help patients move around personal and public spaces.
  • Supported clients with mental support and physical activities to accomplish quality of life and sustain needs.
  • Turned and positioned bedbound patients to prevent bedsores and maintain comfort levels.
  • Recognized and reported abnormalities or changes in patients' health status to case manager.
  • Changed dressings, bandages, and binders to maintain proper healing and sanitary measures.
  • Supported daily hygiene needs of patients by assisting with bathing, dressing, dental care and personal grooming.
  • Laundered items, changed sheets and made bed to keep patients' bedroom clean.
  • Assisted patients with bathing, grooming, dressing, and oral hygiene care both in private residences and facilities.
  • Monitored clients' overall health and well-being and noted significant changes.
  • Guided patients to restroom to support bladder and bowel relief requirements.
  • Recorded status and duties completed in logbooks for management.
  • Built and maintained rapport with clients and family members to facilitate trusting caregiver relationship.
  • Recorded patients' pulse, blood pressure and respirations (TPRs) to assess and document important health information.

AIN

Estia Health Epping
- 01.2023
  • Responsible for caring for elderly people in a nursing home.

Student Social Worker

Ethnic Community Services Cooperative (ECSC)
06.2021 - 09.2021
  • Professional placement for 500 hours at ECSC.
  • Updated client documentation for accurate, compliant and current records.
  • Helped clients develop new coping mechanisms and techniques to drive behavior modification.
  • Advocated for clients to assure respected rights and wishes.
  • De-escalated stressful situations through individua
  • Maintained regular contact with clients by calling and visiting clients' homes.
  • Helped clients with recognizing and managing mental health concerns through evidence-based interventions.
  • Assisted clients with navigating and accessing social services such as housing and medical care.
  • Assisted clients in identifying community resources and connecting with appropriate services.
  • Collaborated with other professionals to plan and coordinate care for clients.
  • Educated clients and families on mental health, wellness and recovery topics.
  • Participated in professional development and training opportunities to enhance clinical skills.
  • Administered assessments to identify clients' needs and establish treatment plans.
  • Developed and implemented individualized treatment plans for clients.
  • Facilitated group therapy sessions to help clients develop coping skills and improve communication.
  • Participated in interdisciplinary team meetings to coordinate care for clients.
  • Developed and maintained strong relationships with community resources for successful referrals.
  • Facilitated peer support groups to help clients connect with others.
  • Utilized evidence-based practices to provide effective interventions for clients.
  • Documented client progress and activities in accordance with agency policies and procedures.
  • Assisted clients in developing and setting realistic goals to promote positive change.
  • Formulated treatment plan strategies with multidisciplinary teams to provide comprehensive and continuous care plan.
  • Facilitated group therapy sessions to build supportive, communicative client networks.

Student Social Worker

Wellbe Counselling & Psychology Practice
09.2020 - 12.2020
  • Professional placement for 500 hours at Wellbe Counselling & Psychology Practice.
  • Helped clients develop new coping mechanisms and techniques to drive behavior modification.
  • Advocated for clients to assure respected rights and wishes.
  • Helped clients with recognizing and managing mental health concerns through evidence-based interventions.
  • Interviewed clients, families, or groups to assess situations, limitations and issues and implement services to address needs.
  • Assisted clients in identifying community resources and connecting with appropriate services.
  • Implemented community outreach programs to promote mental health awareness.
  • Educated clients and families on mental health, wellness and recovery topics.

Housekeeping and Cleaning

01.2016 - 01.2019
  • Worked in housekeeping and cleaning roles.

Research Assistant

Pokhara Waste Management Pvt. Ltd.
01.2012 - 01.2014
  • Assisted in research projects at a local NGO.

Education

Master of Social Work Qualifying - Social Sciences

ACAP
11.2021

Master of Public Health - Health Sciences

University of Wollongong
Wollongong, NSW
09.2019

Skills

  • Ability to work independently and part of a team
  • Mature and professional attitude
  • Ensure client’s care and safety
  • Ensure privacy and confidentiality
  • Respect for others
  • Empathy and patience
  • Cultural competency
  • Relationship building
  • Problem solving
  • Highly competent in comparing assessment findings with what is expected for the condition and include or exclude alternative diagnoses
  • Highly competent in computer skills
  • Have knowledge of counselling skills
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Flexible and Adaptable
  • Self-Motivated
  • Planning and Coordination
  • Problem-Solving
  • Organizational Skills
  • Problem Resolution
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Team Building
  • Task Prioritization
  • Active Listening
  • Customer Relations

Professional Skills Development And Trainings

  • Certificate III in individual support (aging), 2019
  • Grief and loss counselling, 2020
  • Managing groups both for therapy and psychoeducation, 2020
  • Attended seminar on working with young people who self-injure, 2021
  • Attended seminar migration and domestic violence: Intersecting potentially traumatic events and their impact on survivor’s mental health, 2021
  • Attended rethinking Christie’s (1986) “Ideal Victim”, 2021
  • Training on elder abuse, 2021
  • Training on how to work with interpreters, 2021
  • Training on cultural competency, 2021
  • Training on positive counselling and wellness debrief, 2021
  • Training on aged care system and aged care quality, 2021
  • Training on CHSP, 2021
  • Training on counselling skills while working with clients for improving professional skills, 2021

Professional Placements

  • Ethnic Community Services Cooperative (ECSC), Marrickville, 10/06/2021, 03/09/2021
  • WELLBE COUNCELLING & Psychology practice, Riverstone, 09/09/2020, 18/12/2020

References

Upon request

Affiliations

  • Australian Association of social work
  • Australian Community worker Association

Timeline

Student Social Worker

Ethnic Community Services Cooperative (ECSC)
06.2021 - 09.2021

Student Social Worker

Wellbe Counselling & Psychology Practice
09.2020 - 12.2020

Caregiver

Estia Health
10.2019 - 01.2023

Housekeeping and Cleaning

01.2016 - 01.2019

Intern Nutrition and Hygiene Officer

Save the Children Nepal
01.2015

Adolescent Counsellor

Orphanage Homes in Nepal
01.2015

Research Assistant

Pokhara Waste Management Pvt. Ltd.
01.2012 - 01.2014

AIN

Estia Health Epping
- 01.2023

Master of Social Work Qualifying - Social Sciences

ACAP

Master of Public Health - Health Sciences

University of Wollongong
Sabina Karki