r#ead my cv for mw#e

[colditz]

Birth Date: 16/05/1980
Age: 26
Status: Living with partner

Skills: Organised
Punctual
Innovative
Caring
Understanding of Confidentiality Issues
Honest
CRB Cleared
Professional
High standards of Hygiene

Work Experience
I worked as a Senior Carer for 4.5 years at ZXCZXCZXCZXCZXC; a high needs Elderly Residential #Home, with 35 beds, and heading 4/5 Junior Staff per shift, plus Domestics and Kitchen Staff. I was answerable to the home's manager. The home had a wide range of residential service users, with widely varying needs. We provided palliative care to the residents. Sadly the home closed in May, which was the reason for my redundancy.

Responsibilities Held

Logging each resident's received care in their own file
Dispensing prescribed medication, including insulin and controlled drugs
Ensuring security of the building
Meeting and greeting visitors and new residents
Organising up to 5 care staff to care for up to 35 residents
Ensuring Health, Safety and Hygiene of the home
Maintaining confidentiality
Liasing with medical staff and social services
Care of the dying and deceased
Maintaining professionalism when answering the telephone

Personal Interests
I am very chatty, and love to talk to people. In most career choices this would be a bad thing, but I think friendliness and approachability is vital to working with vulnerable people.

sorry about crappy typing in title

Just as a quickie - I'd say I reported to the manager, not was answerable to, because that sounds like you did stuff you had to answer for iyswim.

Liaising is spelt thusly - with the extra "i".

And I'd alter "maintaining professionalism when answering the telephone" - it sounds a bit like you were shouting at people, then picked the phone up and went "Why good morning, lovely caller, what may I help you with on this fine day" in high-falutin' tones.

I think that listing being chatty under personal interests is not quite the way forward either - I know what you mean, but it might need altering a bit.

Have you seen a job you want? Your last one didn't treat you that well, did they?

do you need to put your date of birth, age and status in at all?

delete status

put skills at the end, and delete confidentiality issues (as you have that in the job).

change personal interests to "personal statement" (or somesuch) and put more in it. remove the bit about being chatty being a bad thing.

Thanks for that

I am just shooting it off to everyone I can think of. I'm never going to work for a private nursing home again - the owners have far too much power over their staff. It's not good.

I am looking into Social services support working, but having only ever worked with the elderly I'm not sure if the will employ me.

bugger, i haven't put that i am NVQ trained either. Need to rehash iit really, but I've never written one before!

No need for age / dob / status.

Ensuring Health, Safety and Hygiene of the home

You don't need capitals for health, safety or hygiene.

Skills: Organised
Punctual
Innovative
Caring
Understanding of Confidentiality Issues
Honest
CRB Cleared
Professional
High standards of Hygiene

Fine to put these down but you may well be called at interview to back each up with an example so make sure you have one handy. (What I mean is, even the most disorganised person in the world can say he or she is organised; the trick is having examples to back it up and show that it's the case).

Personal Interests
I am very chatty, and love to talk to people. In most career choices this would be a bad thing, but I think friendliness and approachability is vital to working with vulnerable people.

These aren't really personal interests; personal interests are more your hobbies and what you do outside of work. This statement is more about your personality iyswim. You could put it at the top with your skills; however, I would take out:

In most career choices this would be a bad thing, but

And I would also consider using another word for "chatty"?

Organising up to 5 care staff to care for up to 35 residents

I know this is going to sound pedantic but for numbers less than ten type the word for the number so five instead of 5.

Agree with hunkermunker re: liaising & reported to not answerable to.

Do you have any certificates / qualifications / have you attended any relevant training courses? If so put these down under a heading:

Training and Qualifications

And also put your CRB clearance in this bit rather than in personal skills.

HTH, have only looked v quickly, if you can wait until Monday I can send you a lovely template that I use for all my candidate's CVs but I only have access to it in work; if you want this just CAT me. xx

Sorry xposts with a few people.

Also I meant "my candidates'" and not "my candidate's".

Don't put age or status. Address and contact phone numbers, email.

Work experience - I'd use more sub-headings to highlight job title, employer and employer's address and dates you worked there.

Qualifications?

Relevant Training? Including any one day/half day stuff.

Agree with others on your interests bit.

If you have a template I could use that would be lovely, 3rdTriMossTer

I am at colditzmum at yahoo dot co dot uk

Sorry I don't have cat atm

No worries will send it on Monday x

Thank you so much. I spent 45 minutes filling in a template on line - what they neglected to mention was that they would have charged me £17 to download it!

Colditz just wanted to check, I emailed you yesterday & cc'd in my work address, did you get it?

If not, email me yourself at msrlmoss @ hotmail . com before tomorrow morning and I'll send it to my work address.

Sorry, didn't see this. yes, I did get the message, I hope I replied to the right address, I am a bit bumbley with computers

thank you so much for bothering with this!"

would delete age/status etc

organised etc-not skills, really. would incorporate some, not all, of these words into a short statement pos in italics at top

eg "I am organised, caring and approachable, a real "people person".

really wouldn't list all these skills. you are trying to give them a quick snapshot of the you you are selling, IYKWIM? Lots of adjectives look unfocussed IMO.

Think responsibilities could be condensed also into key areas. Record keeping (logging stuff), Responsibility (security, health and hygenine, organising other staff, liasing with other agencies).

something about sensitivity also?

confidentiality and CRB checks are absolute basics in this field, would just do a short "I understand the need for confidentiality blah blah and was last CRB checked in XYZ"

ok need to go.

can I just add to the others very constructive advice?

Id possibly start with a personal statement rather than a list of qualities. I just think it gives a more human quality rather than a list of words.

Also , if you are being interviewed by someone in your field they will be very familiar with your responsibilities. I know in a cv we tend to want to list them so that the interviewee,(real word ??!!),will know what level we are at and how much we do. I just feel with each one its more powerful to state achievements. It shows a prospective employer how effective you are and what a difference you can make. Was there systems you implemented ? Things you changed ? things you made better? Successful situations out of bad ?

so for example ;

so alongside - Logging each resident's received care in their own file

try - efficiently managed residents files, keeping their care information up to date and organised. I also set up a new way of filing ....................

I hope that articulates what Im trying to get across. probably not the best eg but I hope YKWIM !!!

Work Experience

Job Title: Senior Carer
Duration: 4.5 years
Location: Copper Beeches, Melton Mowbray; a high needs Elderly Residential Home, with 35 beds, and heading 4/5 Junior Staff per shift, plus Domestics and Kitchen Staff. I was responsible to the home's manager. The home had a wide range of residential service users, with widely varying needs. We provided palliative care to the residents. Sadly the home closed in May, which was the reason for my redundancy.

Responsibilities Held

Logging each resident's received care in their own file
Dispensing prescribed medication, including insulin and controlled drugs
Adding to and implementing each resident's care plan
Recording events and illnesses accurately in each resident's file
Handing the shift's events over to the next shift
Ensuring security of the building
Meeting and greeting visitors and new residents
Organising up to five care staff to care for up to 35 residents
Ensuring Health, Safety and Hygiene of the home
Maintaining confidentiality
Liaising with medical staff and social services
Implementing the instructions left by medical and social services staff, and ensuring these are implemented >Care of the dying and deceased

Skills: Communication
Organisation
Punctuality
Innovative
Caring
Understanding of Confidentiality Issues
Honest
CRB Cleared
Professional
High standards of Hygiene

Relevant Qualifications

GCSE: Maths C
English Literature C
English Language B
Science Double Award A - A
French C
Music B
Art C
Textiles C

NVQ: Health and Social Care (Level 2)

Personal Interests
I enjoy working with the elderly, meeting new people, and am fond of music, walking and reading.

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My name, address, phone and email are at the top, but didn't CP those for obcious reasons

This is the updated version

really would shorten job description, colditz

but maybe thats just me

depends really if youre going for job in same area or not

Am getting some proper help now from someone outrageously kind!