Shauna Kelly
Dublin
Summary
Social care worker with several years of experience in both supported living and community based services for people with intellectual disabilities and autism. I am dedicated to upholding the rights of people with disabilities to be valued in all aspects of Irish society and to be supported to lead fulfilled lives. Well-versed in assessing client needs and person centered planning, advocating for client resources and working as part of a multi-disciplinary team. Highly committed to creating positive and respectful relationships with clients and their support networks.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Social Care Worker
Gheel Autism Services
Dublin
11.2022 - Current
- Performed keyworking role promoting the needs, choice, empowerment, and goal attainment to design individual person-centered service for key clients.
- Liaise with key clients and their families to create support plans, to uphold their choices and goals for the future, promoting, wherever possible, the service user's ability to champion their own service supports.
- Developed communication strategies and aids to encourage non-speaking and minimally speaking service users to express themselves and self-advocate using nonverbal means.
- Promoting a culture of positive risk-taking, collaboration with service users and the wider staff team, approaching challenges and arising difficulties with an innovative and solution-focused mentality.
- Engaged with local community, educational, and employment providers aiming to create dialogue and meaningful opportunities for service users to develop valued social roles and have a design of their own future.
- Advocated on behalf of service users and their families in relation to the provision of additional funding, individualized need supports, and staffing when appropriate.
- Supported persons with behaviors of concern and complex needs through a low-arousal and trauma-informed approach.
Social Care Worker
WALK
Dublin
07.2021 - 11.2022
- Ensured person supported in an environment that promotes choice, empowerment, and encourages goal attainment within a person-centered planning framework.
- Promote and uphold the rights and dignity of all service users and staff working within a human rights-based approach, and exercising professional duty of care.
- Developed positive and personalized relationships with persons supported, adapting communication styles and approaches to suit the needs of service users.
- Ensured people have socially valued roles in their community, motivated to try new things, and overcome obstacles within a person-centred framework.
- Worked within the national frameworks and implemented national standards, including HIQA.
- Worked in collaboration with staff team, service users, and their families, health care, and mental health providers to provide a holistic care approach.
- Took on responsibilities as a health and safety champion, including report writing, conducting audits, and training incoming staff in regard to health and safety procedures.
- Liaised with key workers to create individual care plans that incorporated the needs of service users.
Student Practice Placement
WALK
Dublin
01.2020 - 04.2020
Social Skills Track Group Leader
University of California
Berkeley
05.2016 - 09.2016
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Applied Social Care
Technological University Dublin
Tallaght05-2021
Higher National Diploma - Health And Social Care
Inchicore College of Further Education
Inchicore05-2017
Skills
- Personal care assistance
- First-aid and CPR
- Disability Awareness
- Intervention Planning
- Client Advocacy
- Client Needs Assessment
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Social Care Worker
Gheel Autism Services
11.2022 - Current
Social Care Worker
WALK
07.2021 - 11.2022
Student Practice Placement
WALK
01.2020 - 04.2020
Social Skills Track Group Leader
University of California
05.2016 - 09.2016
Bachelor of Arts - Applied Social Care
Technological University Dublin
Higher National Diploma - Health And Social Care
Inchicore College of Further Education
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