Umesh Sedhai

Hardworking Disability Support Worker dedicated to comprehensive, compassionate and individualized patient care. Manages appointments and medication, assists with bathing and grooming and maintains tidy environments. Expert in caring disability support. Versed in daily living support, meal preparation and mobility assistance. Offers excellent interpersonal and communication skills developed through field experience.

• First AID and CPR course certificate
• Manual Handling course
• Child clearance card
• NT open driving licence
• Current federal criminal history check
• NDIS Orientation Module Certificate

• Skills and experience in working at social services and community development workplace.
• Experience in dealing with clients of diverse cultural backgrounds
• Experience in working with client of various age and gender background
• Ability to maintain good relations with clients, staffs and supervisor
• Experience in overall community service workplace
• Knowledge about ethical and moral responsibilities in workplace

Foodbank NT, Volunteer (Professional Practice Placement, 400 hours completed), 08/2019, 10/2019, While doing the placement in Foodbank NT, I got an opportunity of contributing to the community development with their food relief programme whose mission is to achieve a Territory without hunger. The major clients of the organization include the different not for profit organizations, charities and schools to which the organization supply the basic food items at the substantially reduced rate. These rates are not the food charges but essentially handling and logistic costs to support the food relief program. While working here, I got an opportunity to understand the end-to-end supply chain of the organization, how it operates, its dependencies, costs, key investors, need of funds and place for more storage, assistance to the clients on humanitarian ground and their key stakeholders. The organization is a community service provider by serving as a food bank for those in need.

 I was able to enhance my problem-solving ability, soft skills, working in a team, decision making, leadership skills, time management and effective strategy making. An important lesson learnt while working towards the humanitarian cause is to strike a balance between the emotions and the practical situation; make unbiased decisions; respect all irrespective of their culture and community and maintain poise in uncertain situations. With the help of this placement opportunities, I have enhanced my abilities to take cognizance of the underlying situation, think theoretically but consider the real-world parameters that practically impact the situation and make intelligent decisions I was placed as a staff to take the experience of the ground-level activities. However, I also got a chance of administration activities and supervisor role for some period. It provided a different outlook to what community help is all about and how one needs to manage the different clients.

Peter Chandler, Operational Manager, Foodbank NT, peter.chandler501@gmail.com, 0429 076 493

 Zoe Cooper, Team Leader, Amazing Grace Community Services Pty Ltd, 0413960495

 Yukesh Chamlagain, Team leader, Somerville Community Services, 0450341998