Lesley Arshad Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Brixton, England, United Kingdom

• Organising Staff Training workshops on Serious Youth Violence, ensuring the venue is booked, catering, speakers, IT and equipment, presentations slide deck is ready, organise resources, promoting workshops internally to staff. Collating data and presenting an evaluation of staff workshops • Taking minutes and actions for six workstreams which is supporting Serious Youth Violence in Lambeth, Education and Training, Disrupt and Deter, Response and support, Safe Environment and Public Spaces, Family and Early Help and Comms and Co-Production• Booking meetings for Directors and Assistant directors • Supporting a colleague with Implementing Modern Slavery into the council. - set up a steering group and operations group, taking minutes and actions from meeting• Creating a centralized spreadsheet for the financial spend on the Serious Youth Violence transformation project• Arranging Induction packs for councilors and new members of staff to the team

London, England, United Kingdom

• Managed the employment support projects within the council by contract monitoring each quarter for: Camden Work and Wellbeing pilot and Camden IPS service, Women Like Us –In work progression and Camden Ability• Updated the quarterly monitoring information for Directorate Management meeting (DMT) on employment support projects • Set up and managed a HR Working Group for Camden Ability project which is supporting residents with learning and physical disabilities into work. Within the council our aim was to improve the recruitment processes for residents with health conditions/disabilities • Worked on two high profile devolved Employment Support programmes, this dealt with strategic oversight and governance to ensure the projects were successful within the borough: Working Capital was running for two and half years covering eight Central London boroughs in sub region supporting residents who were on Employment Support Allowance (ESA) Work Relate Activity Group (WRAG) and Central London Works (Work and Health Programme) was running for over a month covering twelve Central London boroughs in the sub region supporting residents on Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) and ESA into employment • Supported Making Every Contact Count (MECC) a public health initiative which worked across Camden and Islington Boroughs. Promoting the service and being a MECC champion within Camden with other colleagues and attending quarterly meetings• Managed and lead on the Employment and Skills Network, each quarter, the network was for partners within the borough I coordinated and delivered the meeting with my colleagues • Managed the Employment and Skills Newsletter ensuring it was sent out each month by our apprentice within the team. I liaised with the apprentice to ensure they were on track and have enough articles for each month and proofread before it was sent out to the network of partners within the borough

London, England, United Kingdom

• Managed the Partnership Team Service Level Agreement (SLA) with the Integrated Early Years’ Service (IEYS) and the partnership delivering WISH+ referral hub. Lead on identifying opportunities for partnerships with internal and external organisations in the area for health & wellbeing• Co-ordinated SLA with IEYS including delivery of a consistent offer across the five children’s centre localities & reporting• Promotion of signposting & referral especially to the Children’s Centres & health & wellbeing services• Managed relationship with WISH+ partners including providers and inward referrers• WISH+ service improvement, IT support and development, promotion and training• Attended Better Care Fund programme meetings with strategic partners• Based at Kilburn Children’s’ Centre 1 day a week delivering housing related advice, support & training• Borough Lead for Working Capital Project which was a five-year pilot with six other central boroughs and attended meeting and completed action plans

London, England, United Kingdom

• Worked with Council tenants and tenants which had been affected by welfare changes, such as Social Sector Size Criteria and Total Benefit Cap• Worked with internal partners to gain referrals such as, Rents Service Team, Floating Support Teams, Housing Officers and Tenancy Support Teams• Offered bespoke one to one service for tenants which consisted of Information, Advice and Guidance and referring tenants to internal and external services• Referred tenants’ external partners such as Remploy, Springboard, Women Like Us, West Euston Partnership etc• Meet with Tenants within the local council, libraries around the borough and in their own homes• Typed up notes of case working clients on Council database, HNG, Northgate and Trim• Updated outcome sheet, attended supervision and other meetings

Hammersmith And Fulham, England, United Kingdom

I worked for a mental health charity which is embedded in the NHS, in the Mental Health Unit.• Worked with niche clients from Inpatients, Crisis Resolution Team and Impact • Supported and became an advocate for clients at local Job Centre Plus, volunteer centres and educational establishments• Main facilitator for the Job Club running an 8-week intensive programme on: CVs, Covering letters, Application forms and Job search at local Adult Education Centre for clients• Planning and preparing documents for Job Club• Networking in the local community• Met with clients in the local community e.g. library for job search and Lyric cafe • Typed up clients notes after meetings on to NHS database RIO and completed outcome sheet and completed Richmond Fellowship database CASS monthly• Telephone contact/email contact with clients• Attended weekly meetings

Hammersmith And Fulham, England, United Kingdom

I have completed a development opportunity of Acting up Senior Employment Adviser, for 4 months which is in addition to my role of Employment Adviser. I managed a secondary mental health employment service with staff of 4 people and 250 clients per annum.• Trained and inducted three members of new staff and one member had a disability.• Organised and chaired team meetings• Completed supervision with staff on a monthly basis• Assisted with the annual business plan• Signatory for expenses and finance• Managed the day to day running of the service