Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Interest
Licenses
References
Timeline
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Shonnessy (Shon) McDonnell

Shonnessy (Shon) McDonnell

Brisbane,QLD

Summary

An experienced leader, mentor and organiser not only in previous job roles but also as a junior rugby league football coach and manager. With a passion for helping others, now interested in pivoting my career towards support/youth work where I can further use these skills along with my natural ability to communicate via my active listening and verbalising skills, being able to empathize building rapport and trust along the way while approaching all situations in a respectful, non judgemental and at times light humored manner.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Residential Youth Care Worker (RCW)

Mercy Community Services
Nudgee, Brisbane, Queensland
10.2021 - Current

- Working flexible hours; day, night, weekend, and holiday shifts across 2 programs, maintaining excellent attendance and consistency with children both male and female with ages ranging from 10 - 17 but not limited to.

- Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.

- Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently and in accordance with applicable standards, policies and regulatory guidelines to promote safe working environments in the way of caring for, cooking, cleaning, washing, keeping young people safe while supporting both their emotional and social development in their day to day lives while also teaching life skills.

- Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.

- Assisting in creating, setting and supporting young people with their goals.

- Guiding, mentoring and encouraging young people to make better choices.

- Supporting young people in building resilience and capacities.

- Supporting young people with family contact, school attendance, social and extra curricular activities.

- Using coordination and planning skills to Implement young peoples daily planners, scheduling young peoples appointments and events, supporting them in attendance.

- Improved operations through consistent work ethic and dedication.

- Inducting and supporting new workers into programs.

- Creating daily handover logs to incoming staff, creating behavior logs, Activity logs, incident logs, house maintenance requests.

- Handling, Administering and logging young peoples Regular prescribed medications.

- Managing, updating and inputting petty cash and petty cash receipts accordingly.

- Hosting and participating in care team meetings with team building activities, identifying issues and generating suggestions to engage in problem solving to support team work and enhance working relationships.

- Actively listening to young people so they can see that they are seen and heard, letting them know they are important and that they matter!

Workflow Coordinator

Solar Screen
Brisbane, Queensland
02.2021 - 12.2021
  • Communicated with all teams to ensure quality deliverables and timely achievement of project milestones.
  • Scheduled projects in alignment with available resources while maintaining focus on client expectations.
  • Monitored project timelines and utilized attention to detail to ensure seamless completion of milestones.
  • Monitored adherence to project timelines, company standards and budget requirements.
  • Assessed current inventories and brought in supplies to keep stock within optimal levels for expected demands.
  • Documented production information showing volume produced, managed project deadlines and provided team leadership.

Sheet Metal Fabricator

Self Employed (sub-contractor)
Brisbane, Queensland
01.2001 - 01.2021
  • Custom design, fabricate and installation in all aspects of stainless steel commercial and domestic kitchens, bbq areas, bars, butchers displays, seafood displays, cake displays, bain maries, exhaust canopys, hospital equipment and handrails for the food/catering and hospitailty industry.
  • Referred to manuals, blueprints and drawings to obtain accurate information for sheet metal project completion.
  • Followed Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations to promote safe work environment.
  • Inspected each completed fabrication project to verify adherence to blueprint and procedural specifications.
  • Mentored 8 apprentices and inspected finished work to verify compliance with established requirements.
  • Met company standard times and individual productivity goals consistently.
  • Interpreted blueprints, drawings, and written and verbal instructions to set up jobs.
  • Analyzed all required blueprints, drawings, work orders and sketches to correctly fabricate and install products and parts.
  • Computed labor and materials expenses to correctly estimate work costs for customers.

Education

Currently Enrolled Cert IV - Youth Work

Grow Training
Brisbane, Queensland
04.2023

No Degree - Professional Development Certificates

Mercy Community Services
Nudgee, Brisbane

Cert III - Engineering Tradesperson (fabrication Light)

Yeronga Tafe And Workshop (4 Year) Apprenticeship
Brisbane, Queensland
09.1999

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Managing and Training Staff
  • Communication
  • Respect and Rapport
  • Positivity
  • Integrity
  • Rugby League Football Coach - Wynnum/Manly Juniors 2015, 2016
  • Rugby League Football Manager - Wynnum/Manly Juniors 2017,2018
  • Rugby League Football League Safe, Trainer - Wynnum/Manly Juniors 2019
  • Rugby League Football Assistant Coach, Assistant Manager - Wynnum Manly Juniors 2020

Interest

- Nature

- Rugby league

- Oz tag

- Tong Long Kung Fu

- Drumming and percussion

Licenses

- Current CPR/First aid

- Current paid working with children Blue card

- Current paid NDIS Yellow card

- Nationally coordinated criminal history check certificate

- Current White card (Construction)

- Open car license

References

Vika Piutau

Senior Residential Care Worker (SRCW)

Mercy Community Service

Ph. 0452 534 127


Kylee Melverton

Wynnum Manly Juniors Rugby League Football Club

Secretary/Board member

Ph. 0421 715 527


Micheal McCarthy

Personal Friend

Ph. 0452 264 731

Timeline

Residential Youth Care Worker (RCW)

Mercy Community Services
10.2021 - Current

Workflow Coordinator

Solar Screen
02.2021 - 12.2021

Sheet Metal Fabricator

Self Employed (sub-contractor)
01.2001 - 01.2021

Currently Enrolled Cert IV - Youth Work

Grow Training

No Degree - Professional Development Certificates

Mercy Community Services

Cert III - Engineering Tradesperson (fabrication Light)

Yeronga Tafe And Workshop (4 Year) Apprenticeship
Shonnessy (Shon) McDonnell