Shown below are examples of
my job history:-
- Dual Diagnosis Counsellor – Currently specialise in working with
clients who are addicted to alcohol, drugs and have a mental health
illness
- Alcohol Worker – I have also worked for a Rehabilitation Centre for
people with alcohol addiction. Skills used were counselling,
assessments, interviews, crisis intervention and task centre work,
plus the monitoring of the client’s alcohol levels.
- Sessional Therapist – I have worked for Manchester Social Services
at a day centre. The centre deals with adults with mental health
problems. My job was a sessions therapist. The therapy is designed
to suit each individuals needs. It helps to improve the quality of
the client’s lives. Also helping people cope with stress, resolve
their problems and make decisions for themselves. Some of the work
would involve group work.
- Play Therapist – This role was done at a family service unit in
Manchester. I was a volunteer worker for approximately two years.
Child centred play therapy is suitable for most multi-troubled
children (there are a few exceptions), between the ages of
approximately four to eleven, and is one of the post-disclosure
options when considering how to help abused children. In therapy
each child is different, cannily using sessions to work on current
difficulties and former tribulations. Sessions are the child’s
time, the child deciding what to do and how to do it. As a play
therapist is an informed, intuitive and interested adult, watching,
waiting and responding. In the vast majority of cases there is
improvement.
- Residential Social Worker – I have provided care to long stay or
short stay residential centres, and in day care units. This
includes the following: Working with children and adults with
learning needs.
- Youth Offending Officer – In Wigan and Stockport; My work was mainly
concerned with the supervision of offenders in the community,
although as a youth offending officer the workload consists of an
increasingly wide range of duties. The main aim of the work is
broadly to work with offenders so that they lead law abiding lives,
in a way that minimises the risk to the public. Some of my duties
would be organising groups, seeing offenders in prison, and some
court work i.e. being the appropriate adult.
 I would carry a
caseload of up to twenty clients at any one time. Also offer the
client and their parents educational programmes.
- Solicitor’s Clerk – I worked in the criminal side of the law.
Involved working for clients who are in dispute, interviewing them
to find out the details keeping record of the information they
provided. Writing letters on client’s behalf or preparing material
for a court case. (Also experience Appropriate Adult)
- Community Mental Health Officer – For Social Services. My role was
a support worker in the community.
- Other Jobs Included – Working in schools, hospitals, one to one
working, youth clubs and probation.
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