Thomas Shore Email & Phone Number

Hackney

Working 3 days a week in Public Health & 2 in Community Partnerships

Hackney, England, United Kingdom

London Borough Of Hackney, England, United Kingdom

Co-ordinating a Unit of Social Workers and Qualified Children's Practioners. Organising checks with schools, GP's, and various other professionals to get information about their involvement and concerns they may have for the family we are involved with.Arranging professionals meetings including Child Protection medicals, Child Protection Conferences, Looked After Children reviews and Multi Agency Planning meetings. Taking minutes for professional meetings when required. Ensuring that the children allocated to the social workers in my unit are being seen regularly. Acting as the first point of contact for parents of the children allocated to our unit. Gathering and analysing statistics and information to help the unit change and adapt to new practices and ways of working.I ensure the smooth running of our unit and make sure the children and families allocated to us receive the best service possible.

Southwark, London

• Co-ordinating and booking all travel for the programme team. Making sure trains, hotels and product purchases are all co-ordinated carefully around a busy schedule.• Tracking all spend for the programme and making sure card and budget limits are stuck to.• Booking and co-ordinating all aspects of a variety of events. Working closely with venues to ensure everything goes smoothly and to plan.• Providing support to our team in decision making and what direction the programme should go in.• Collecting and analysing qualitative and quantitative data. Using this data to inform and decide the focus of the programme.• Establishing a library database of publications highlighting good practises in areas the programme focused on.• Providing scoping reports to inform practical aspects of the programme.• Working closely with other organisations in the same sector to build a good knowledge of the work being carried out in the sector.• Using this knowledge to work out what areas need more focus in our programme.

• Maintaining a clean, well-organised office for my colleagues and visitors. • Co-ordinating our asset register and equipment logs. Ensuring these logs were updated regularly and that equipment was being used practically.• Ensuring safety standards were being met with regards to Scuba Diving equipment. • Co-ordinating equipment purchases and delivery to our remote sites in Madagascar and Belize.• Making sure all purchases for sites went to the right project, person and were recorded when they arrived. • Establishing the systems which track and update all our equipment.• Giving support for Office IT problems. Installing Microsoft Operating Systems, Microsoft Office and ensuring all anti-virus software was up to date.• Providing technical support for our office network and server systems. Regularly running on and off-site backups of all files on our server.• Working closely with all our suppliers including Scuba Diving equipment, Scientific equipment, printing companies, technical support, overseas couriers and insurance providers.• Regularly evaluating our relationships with suppliers and establishing new relationships which benefit the company.

Islington, London

• Using my experience as a mountain leader trainee and my knowledge of equipment to help customers make the most informed decision. • Maintaining a well-stocked, easy to navigate, stock room and well-stocked shop floor.• Ensuring the shop floor was clean, spacious and well-ordered for customers.• Ordering specialist equipment from our main warehouse when necessary.

Embankment, London

• Advising customers on a variety of different products within the diving, sailing and triathlon sections.• Ensuring that customers are given the best advice possible and knowing the best particular product for them. • Expanding my knowledge about Sailing and Triathlon and ensuring my knowledge of each area was always up to date.• The most important aspect of my work to me is in striving to help every individual customer as much as I possibly can and to help them make the best decisions.

Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique

• Medjumbe is a small private island off the coast of Africa which is home to the hotel staff and 13 guest chalets. • My primary role was Activities Manager, running/ teaching activities including Scuba Diving, Windsurfing and Fishing trips. • My other duties on Medjumbe included managing the Food & Beverage department; organising and maintaining stock levels, and regularly working behind the bar.• I was in charge of rotas, maintaining stock and handling budgets for the department. We were in a very remote area of Africa and this made maintaining stock levels a very arduous and, at times, impossible task. • I learned a lot from my time in Medjumbe; my management and organisational skills benefitted greatly from working so closely with people and trying to solve the many problems Medjumbe faced.

Bachelor’S Degree, Sociology, Second Class Degree

Nvq Level Three, Youth Work, Completed