TARNI STILES

Motivated and accomplished Team Lead at Hope Community Services, skilled in counselling, therapeutic intervention, case management and crisis/risk management with a strong ability to enhance team collaboration and client engagement. Demonstrated ability to utilise emotional intelligence, communication skills and advocacy to drive positive outcomes, meet funding KPIs and improve service delivery while ensuring comprehensive client and team support.

• Department of Child Protection, Woodville, SA, 07/2022 - 12/2022

Assisted to provide effective case management services to respond to the needs of children and their families. 

Assisted to deliver a range of intervention strategies to safeguard children and promote positive outcomes. 

Assisted to help children in out-of-home care to reconnect with their birth families, strengthen relationships and achieve and maintain reunification. 

Assisted to undertake regular visits to support parents and carers to develop appropriate parenting skills. 

Demonstrated ability to develop and apply culturally sensitive child protection practices. 

• Operation Flinders, Adelaide, SA, 07/2021 - 06/2022.

Following my first University field placement, continued volunteer work with Operation Flinders on a seasonal basis to engage with youth aged 12-18 with complex personal, social and development needs in an adventure-therapy based setting. 

Walk 100+ kilometres in a small group in the Flinders Ranges over the course of 8 days with only essential resources. 

Developed therapeutic relationships to promote resilience, empowerment and personal strengths in young people while utilising core social work theories and principles to maintain essential boundaries. 

• Education Assistant, Yatala Labour Prison, DSC, Adelaide, SA, 08/2017 - 06/2018

Administered one-on-one and group tutoring sessions, alongside an employed educator, to implement literacy and numeracy programs. 

Conducted evaluations to gauge academic level and social and emotional status.

Developed therapeutic relationships to promote empowerment and personal strengths, while working to breakdown the stigma associated with incarceration. 

• Quit Smoking Mentor, Adelaide Remand Centre, DCS, Adelaide, SA, 08/2017 - 06/2018

Administered one-on-one counselling sessions to those experiencing nicotine withdrawals, as a part of an introduced program, to promote long-term, healthy lifestyle changes. 

Provided social support and distributed essential information for rehabilitation from nicotine addiction, withdrawal symptoms and triggers for regression

• DCS Screening Checks; Child Related, Disability, Aged Care and Vulnerable Person
• Working with Children Check (WWCC) - Western Australia
• Child Safe Environment (CSE)
• National Criminal History Check (NCHC)
• First Aid Certificate inc. CPR
• Mental Health First Aid Certificate
• Aboriginal Mental Health First Aid Certificate
• Micro-Credential: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Smart Recovery Facilitator Training

• Sam Doran, PCADS Service Manager - Hope Community Services, Karratha, WA, 6714, 0497 917 294, sam.doran@hopecs.org.au
• Michael Greene, Regional General Manager - Hope Community Service, Karratha, WA, 0439 911 614, michael.greene@hopecs.org.au
• Muhammad Khan, Senior Coordinator - New ROADS, Uniting Communities, 43 Franklin St, Adelaide, SA, 5000, 08 8202 5690, muhammad.Khan@unitingcommunities.org
• Emilija Jovanovic, Mental Health Coordinator, Uniting Communities, 43 Franklin St, Adelaide, SA, 5000, 0408 890 978, EmilijaJ@unitingcommunities.org