Jo Beven Email & Phone Number

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

Managing a registered care home for adults with learning disabilities as well as a supported living facility

Woking, England, United Kingdom

Encouraging and supporting adults and young people with various learning and physical disabilities, including ASD, to access various activities which promote choice, independence and various life skills.Assisting staff and volunteers to enrich the group and support the service users.Organising, leading and risk assessing activities

Woking, England, United Kingdom

Used limited resources to effectively run the Under 18 Service.Organised and delivered schemes, clubs and activities for children and adults with learning and physical disabilitiesincluding ASD.Overhauled the assessment paperwork and made the process more effective for the service user, leading an Ofstedinspector to comment that it was the ‘best’ and ‘most thorough’ she’d seen.Created and maintained excellent relationships with service users, families, staff and other key stakeholders in order toeffectively promote our continuous improvement.Successfully introduced brand-new playschemes in a new location. This included writing the funding bid, finding the venue, fully staffing and resourcing equipment and supplies to organising activities and populating the scheme.Worked closely with service users and their families to provide engaging and fun activities that support children andyoung people's individual needs, often contributing to keeping families out of crisis.Managed and aided with recruitment of a team of 70 staff and volunteers, including rota management, skills training and personal development.Enabled a positive, safe and supportive environment where staff/volunteers could learn to best support each other and those they work with.Safeguarding Lead, worked sensitively with families and appropriate stakeholders to ensure those in our care were safe and cared for, both inside and outside of our service.Wrote successful funding bids as well as organising fundraising activities.Ensured policies and procedures were created and updated on a regular basis to fit both the charity's aims and objectives whilst considering regulatory requirements.Ensured compliance with the latest legislation and achieved a ‘Good’ Ofsted rating.Managed department budget, including staffing and activity costing.Financial activities including handling cash, signing off expenses, reconciling credit card expenditure, invoicing and payment plans.

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

enabling children with complex needs and ASD to access the curriculum from home whilst out of full time education.

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

Led a diverse team to support families of children with serious illnesses.Shaped services such as bereavement and youth services.Reformed policies including Safer Recruitment procedures and Safeguarding policies.Led team meetings and chaired interagency meetings.Co-led the Safeguarding team by attending professional meetings focused on working to keep children and families safe.Organised and delivered events.Recruitment.

Managed petty cashBudget reportingRaised POs and processed invoices and dealt with queries from other staff membersUpdated systems in order to streamline processes

Richmond, England, United Kingdom

Worked effectively within a specialist team.Provided support for children and young people with physical disabilities in mainstream schools, enabling them to access the curriculum.Advocated for students.Supported students both inside and outside the classroom to help them meet their potential, including allowing students to successfully access and prepare for residential trips with their peers.Used my skills in maths to support a student to start enjoying maths even though she disliked the subject and found it difficult. Years later she went on to study for her AATs in accounting.