louisa young

The "Helping in Schools" course I took enabled me to work as a Teaching Assistant in mainstream and special schools. With my admin experience they also placed me in roles to cover main reception desks for busy nurseries and sure start centres and school administration roles where required.

This was a zero hour’s contract assisting full time case workers and their client in any role they may need assistance with. Duties can range from attending appointments with clients to being part of a support network for vulnerable individuals.

I assist in minute taking, confidential documentation, diary management, dealing with personnel issues, poster and flyer design, arranging and providing conference facilities, booking training courses with travel, correspondence, planning and being first contact to the school governors. In addition I also assist in general office requirements such as front desk, answering phones and dealing with families, room bookings and money handling. I have working knowledge of SIMs for information access.

Education administration. Room bookings, cover management, data control, reception cover, mail merges, high volume postal requests, internal and external share holder requests, CPD administration, trip risk assessment, report creation, absence co-ordination, working closely with the HR and accounts department.

Activities and Societies: I took part in the drama club, and extra educational trips over the holidays experiencing canal barge living. I was also a long term volunteer in the career office during my final 2 years at school.