Jodi Embling Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

In addition to the roles and responsibilities of a Provisional School Counsellor, I have taken on the additional roles of Mentor and Sub Manager which involves:As a Mentor:• Attending mentor meetings• Supporting new workers with Wellbeing duties as well as the review and understanding of the Placement Manual• Supporting colleagues with any questions or concerns• Looking after mentees• Rotating between other mentors to stay back after school to read, review and upskill workers on case notes. As a Sub Manager:• Daily data collection and recovery.• Crisis intervention, assessment, and student allocation• Supervisor, staff and team liaison• Daily IT and administration including answering phones, responding to requests• Supports the daily management of the Wellbeing program and student case management plans• Assessment and triage of students needs

Key Responsibilities:• Maintaining a caseload of 3-4 students each term to hold regular counselling sessions with or check in with them periodically to offer support.• Holding counselling sessions with students (either from caseload or walk in students) for 45-75 minutes in length, followed up with case notes. • Twice daily meetings with Student Outreach / Re-engagement team to determine status and plans for students experiencing school refusal and needing additional support. • Liaising with case managers and parent support team regarding students on the Outreach / Re-engagement list to ensure a wholistic approach is given to support students and their families. • Attending daily briefing and debriefing sessions with Wellbeing Team leadership. • Attending 75 minutes of group supervision each fortnight with a qualified counselling supervisor. Working as a provisional counsellor in the Student Wellbeing Team. Supporting the mental health of students and parents.Key Achievements• At the completion of my Diploma of Counselling was accepted to remain with the Brentwood Wellbeing team as a qualified school counsellor. • Promoted to Mentor and Sub Manager for Term 4 after completing Term 3 as a general Wellbeing worker.

Key Responsibilities • Complete responsibility for picking up new client enquiries, contacting clients via their preferred method and times to schedule sessions, processing payments, preparing for, and holding sessions with clients (either in person or on Zoom), writing up case notes and scheduling, researching, and planning for future sessions. • Attending one hour of group supervision each week with a qualified counselling supervisor. Key Achievements• Whilst initially a provisional counsellor on the LCCP team, I was accepted to remain on as a volunteer counsellor once my Diploma of Counselling was completed. • Maintaining a consistent caseload of 3-8 clients at any one time. Some clients I have now seen in excess of 18 times. • Able to mentor new provisional counsellors to the LCCP team about starting out as a counsellor and seeing clients.

Reporting to the Global IT Program Manager for Sales and Marketing / Dealer Systems, providing analysis, deployment and ongoing IT support for globally developed solutions and systems across various regional markets. Managing stakeholder engagement for a variety of countries whilst accommodating language, cultural, time zone and country specific requirements.

Reporting to the Holden CIO, at the time of the Hewlett Packard team being insourced into General Motors lead the efforts to ensure the local Holden IT team knew what resources and skillsets were being bought into their business. Lead and ran Holden IT management and department meetings.Representing Holden ITs presence and interests to the wider General Motors IT global organisation.

Resource Management• Responsible for maintaining the required level of skilled resources whilst balancing best shore commitments and changes in contracts which resulted in the need for staff reductions through redundancies and internal transfers. • Following Australian workplace laws and processes to ensure workforce reductions were handled professionally and legally.• Working with external agencies to secure contingent workers for short term assignments whilst managing their stay with EDS /HP.• Managing teams based at various locations throughout Melbourne and Australia - some remotely.• Utilizing global and local tools to plan for resource workloads.• Ensuring staff skills are developed to ensure successful careers are maintained by encouraging them to make time for various training courses and creating and maintaining an IDP (Individual Performance Plan). • Conduct regular team meetings (inclusive of remote team members) to share information on current priorities and challenges.• Champion process and procedural standards to ensure they are followed by all team members. Performance Management• Performance based goals set at the start of each year and each team member measured against them. • Reward and recognition decisions planned for and provided based on performance.• Poor performance identified and managed through PIPs (performance improvement plans) which at times lead to exiting the company.Compensation Management• Management of budgets for bonus and salary increases with funds allocated appropriately, according primarily to overall performance to goals. • In times of budget freezes, finding other measures to reward staff to keep them engaged. Delivery Management• Provide guidance and oversight to team leaders on how they manage their teams and workload. • Work closely with departmental leaders locally, regionally and globally to ensure team members are performing well and focusing on current priorities.

• On going support of several applications (including critical applications) while ensuring agreed service levels were met.• Followed documented processes for software development through all stages of the systems life cycle. • Active involvement in ISO and CMM/CMMI accreditation. This included becoming a certified CMMI Assessor and involved in the CMM 2, 3, 4 and 5 accreditations.• Built and maintained excellent client relationships from various departments.• Mentored numerous new comers to the project management area in the use of standardized methodologies, processes, tools and procedures. Project Management activities: Plan and lead small to medium multiple/concurrent projects whilst maintaining their progress and status (to schedule and budget). Regular project status tracking and reporting. Meetings with Account Managers and/or Delivery Managers to discuss project progress. First point of contact for project escalations and in turn following a further escalation process as required.  Maintenance of the production support group project workbook which was regularly quality audited. Provide regular performance feedback to Team Leaders. Worked closely with the Project Management Offices (both EDS and GM) to ensure projects utilize the latest policies, processes and templates.

Diploma Of Counselling, Mental Health Counseling/Counselor

Bachelor Social Science - Information Management