David Mitchell Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

St John’s is a college supporting young adults with learning difficulties. My main responsibilities at St John’s were to support Learners with all aspects of their personal and academic wellbeing, specialising in sport. As part of my job it was my responsibility to assist and support learners with their education, building and developing work and life skills, and assist them with communication. The learner’s wellbeing is at the forefront of all tasks that I undertook and I worked as part of a team to deliver holistic person-centred care. This ranged from personal care, to encouraging independence and building on skills that promoted a healthy wellbeing. This was a very physically demanding job and I was required to fully engage throughout the day with the learners and my colleagues. As part of my role I was expected to be computer literate and operate an email system and various filing and reporting systems that enable me to fully support a learner. I was a key worker to specific learners and was expected to reflect this in writing on a day-to-day basis.

London, England, United Kingdom

As a teaching assistant at Sion-Manning I supported three students within the SEN department. A large proportion of the support was carried out in the classroom itself, unless the students were participating in an intervention. The students had various disabilities, from Global Development Delay, Autism and Mosaic Down Syndrome. My role consisted of ensuring that the students were well supported in line with their Statement/EHCP and their needs and ambitions were met sensitively, as well as providing overall support in their education. I also planned and created resources to assist the students’ learning. Furthermore, I took communication skills and social skills lessons with the students as part of a learning intervention. In addition, I completed Talking Mats Training, which is SALT based CPD, I assessed the student’s progress as much as possible, as well as using the PIVATs assessment to outline their aims and targets. I also researched new interventions and strategies that could be used in the department.

Hackney, England, United Kingdom

In my role as a short break outreach worker I provided respite care for families of children with learning disabilities. This involved having a child for a few hours on a regular (weekly) basis. We did different activities depending on age and needs of child but including museum visits, swimming, gym, cinema, table tennis, arcade, and going to the Olympic park. I worked with 5 children aged 8 years – 18 years. I built a strong positive relationship with service users, which in turn helped them to gain confidence. I liaised with their families find out what they and the child wanted to achieve, for example social interaction experience.

London, England, United Kingdom

I was employed on an ad hoc basis by Jam staffing, an Events Management company. This involved serving food and drinks etc. at high profile corporate events, my personal highlight from this job was working at the McLaren F1 Technology Centre.

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

I worked for PGL Ltd in a children’s summer camp in Spain. This involved looking after and coaching large groups of children aged 9-17 years old and organising activities. Once the children had left each week I was responsible for cleaning and maintaining their rooms. The camp was largely based around water sports.

Switzerland

The Haut-Lac Centre is a Swiss residential centre for parties of European school children to attend for a week at a time primarily to learn a foreign language. Within this formality is a framework of activities, principally learning to ski. My role was to get groups of children organised, to drive them in a minibus to the ski slopes and to then spend the day teaching them to ski so that by the end of the week they had progressed and achieved a reasonable standard. I was also responsible for organising evening activities for the children and taking turns to be on duty at night in case of unforeseen problems. At the end of the week it was my duty to help clean and tidy rooms in preparation for the next group of children. Children’s ages ranged from 10 to 18.

Master Of Science - Ms, Buissness

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Psychology, 2:1