Helen Hendry Email and Phone Number

• Collaborative working with internal departments to understand specialist needs of clients and, where appropriate, challenge requests which are not inline with the published policy position.• Analysis of operational data and brief senior staff on current financial position. • Supporting budget managers with budget reflection meetings and support Children’s Services will insights and specialist knowledge for budget forecasting purposes.• Draft business cases and option papers to support the savings programmes, including undertaking financial analysis of options using specialist knowledge. Includes managing the delivery of small projects from the savings programmes and measuring their success.• Support with the updating of processes and practices and embedding them within the team.• Support both the Corporate Transport and Childrens Services teams with the drafting of policy, guidance, and process documents.• Working closely with the Community Transport Manager and other internal departments to develop savings ideas which are founded on appropriate insight data.• Taking the lead on monitoring and reporting on key performance indicators, including the production of a quarterly analytical report.• Providing supervision/mentoring to more junior members of the team to enable them to develop appropriate skills and abilities in relation to their role.

Finance specialist within Community Transport Team.🔵 Responsibility for end of month/year finances for Community Transport Unit and Public Transport🔵 Compilation and analysis of KPI data for Children's Services.🔵 Analysis of key trends for senior officers and directorship.🔵 Scenario testing and associated cost implications.🔵 Tendering projects🔵 Policy examination for new suppliers🔵 Creation and management of communication materials with customers, in line with 'Plain English' initiative.🔵 Working with key teams in Children's and Adults' Services to ensure best outcomes for customers.

Working collaboratively within the Corporate Transport Unit, with a variety of responsibilities:- Maintaining financial information for the team, including monthly forecast reports and receiving invoices from suppliers. - Direct contact with all stakeholders (families, transport operators, children's and adult services, schools and care settings) and working with all to create solutions to their diverse needs. - Collaborative and supportive working with the whole team to find optimal resolutions. - Logistical analysis of travel routes. - Applying Council Policies to everyday situations.- Maintaining a high level of data protection and confidentiality.

Co-opted Governor within a three-form entry Junior School. Currently part of the Assessment & Progress and Children & Learning Committees.

Experience of teaching within Key Stages 1 and 2, including SATs year groups. Passion for mathematics and educational research. Helping children to smash through barriers to learning through careful assessment, communication and professional development. Strong data and numerical skills allowing analysis of qualitative and quantitive assessments, surveys and observations of pupils and colleagues. Continuous critical assessment of current teaching and learning within the school environment, identifying areas of improvement and implementing changes as necessary and in conjunction with the advice and approval of senior leaders, governors and the local education authority advisor. Nurturing children and colleagues, including trainee teachers, to continue their own individual learning pathways and achieve their potential.

• Recruited while on placement during PGCE Teacher Training.• Attended regular training courses run by Hampshire County Council to improve teaching practice.• Assigned as Education Visits Coordinator, reviewing risk assessments and other documentation for external school visits.• Trained as an outdoor learning specialist as part of the Trailblazer course run by Hampshire LEA.• Differentiation of teaching and assessment to individualise pupils’ learning, including teaching split Year 5/6 class.

• 2 years as an LSA before undertaking training and becoming a Higher Level Teaching Assistant.• Delivered small group and 1:1 interventions as directed by teachers.• Delivered whole class lessons to cover teacher absence in a range of subjects across Key Stage 2 classes.• Independently planned and delivered Year 6 maths booster groups for SATs as part of a breakfast club.• Volunteered to run an after school gardening club for Key Stage 1.• Member of the ‘Green School’ committee to improve environmental credentials of the school.• Took part in extracurricular events to support pupils and colleagues • Left to commence teacher training at Reading University

-Garden maintenance and design business. -Gained RHS level 2 and 3 qualifications in horticulture. -To manage business accounts, took the OCR Level 1 qualification in book-keeping and OCR Level 2 in accounting.-Fully booked after 3 months of starting business with a waiting list of clients due to word-of-mouth recommendations. -Excellent customer service skills were paramount in maintaining good relationships with clients. -Gained additional work by replacing competitors due to my high standard of work and reliability.-Voluntary work as part of the business to help the community. One of these was redesigning a primary school courtyard; I drafted in the local horticultural society to help out and applied for funding from Yateley Town Council. Within 2 months, the courtyard garden was opened by the town's mayor.After helping out at the same school by running an after school gardening club, I decided I wanted to work with children. This ultimately led me to training to become a teacher.

- Completed Sales of Medicine training and examination. This allowed me to advise customers on over the counter medication.- Supervised staff when Pharmacy Manager was off site.- Responsible for cashing up at the end of the day.- Excellent customer service; delivering confidentiality and sensitivity to customers' queries and concerns.

Started a family and concentrated on my children.

European Market Manager• Responsible for the Pharmaceutical Division• Keeping up to date on industry standards and developments to promote and direct future opportunities• Training customer-facing colleagues on company products• Setting future sales targets• Converting technical documentation into client-friendly brochures• Travel to main offices in Paris, Milan and Germany• Accompanying sales people on larger client appointmentsEuropean Marketing Assistant• Working with the Pharmaceutical, Bioprocess and Manufacturing Divisions• Compiling weekly sales reports• Creating and updating technical documentation• Co-ordinating training events for European sales teams• Working closely with scientific specialists and engineers to understand how products worked in situ• Writing articles for trade magazines• Co-ordinating exhibitions, from booking stands, stand design, timetabling colleagues and organising resources.Left the company due to starting a family.

• Field-based role – South East, London and East Anglia• Time management and self-starter – organising own time and arranging appointments with clients• Clients ranged from small laboratories within universities to large scale manufacturing plants for pharmaceutical companies• Customer service skills essential to maintain business relationships and future sales• Trained in filtration technologies• Consistently met sales targets for consumables• Identifying future sale opportunities

Internship in the Private Finance Initiative team