Curriculum Vitae – Julia Woodman
32 The Riding, Woodham, Woking, Surrey, GU21
5TA
01483-760729 / 07921-485127 /
julia@radiance-solutions.co.uk
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CAREER
ACHIEVEMENTS TO DATE:
Assistant Personal Adviser with
the Rainer Surrey 16+ Team (Part of Royal
Philanthropic Society) from April 2005 to current
date. Basesd in Woking, under contract to
the council, we assist young people who have been
in care towards successful independent living.
Help young people move from
unemployment into further studies or
employment.
Work with benefits
departments, and training providers
Find appropriate council or
private accommodation
Motivate young people in the
areas of health & development
Support young people with
emotional family & friendship issues
Support in the areas of
identity, citizenship, and rights.
Help young people develop
financial and other independent living
skills
Apply on young people’s
behalf for financial support with travel
costs, training or further studies,
clothing, furnishings, rent deposits,
costs of documentation such as passports.
Some specific
strong points relevant to this role are:
Care passionately about
working with people of any age to improve
their situations
Good at empowering people to
help themselves, and at engaging with the
‘hard to reach’.
Active team member
contributing at team meetings etc which
often leads to changes for the betterment
of our service to young people, our team
members, and our organization.
Volunteer for extra duties,
such as manning stands at events,
covering duties of absentees, etc.
Produced newsletter for 6
months in 1st yr in job, with articles
from workers & young people.
Line Manager recently asked
me to apply for promotion when roles
became available, but this would lead
more into social work, whereas I am
inclined towards youth work or roles that
can use my counseling, coaching, and
personal development workshop skills more
specifically, and my creativity.
Service
User Involvement Officer - Covered this
role for 2nd yr in job in addition to main role
above
Organized and led the Surrey
Youth Forum
Ensured attendance &
involvement of our young people in
conferences and policy development
decisions with local govt, ourselves, and
other agencies and services.
Researched opportunities and
kept young people informed of them.
Made successful bid with
young people for £5000 to fund Surrey
Young People’s Website
Design of this website,
according to young people's brief
Led interview training
sessions with young people to enable them
to interview for us
Often undertook major tasks
at very short notice
Inducted new worker when she
was appointed
Advertising
Sales for PersonelZone and
HealthandSafetyZone based in Esher but mostly
working from home 3 days a week from June 04.
Researched companies and contacted them to
fulfill their advertising needs with tailored
online advertising packages. Delivered
presentations.
During
this time I was also able to continue with some
self employed work and studies:
·
WRITING personal development COURSES (available
via the internet)
·
COUNSELING, and Stress Consultant (I have been on
TV in this role).
·
Web Design
·
Further studies – Life Coaching
Third
Poetry Tour of Texas – Worked with
Adults & Children at a large festival, in
schools, and at a variety of other places such as
spiritual centres and arts venues – April 04
Young
Persons Officer (Consultation &
Participation) - Pavilion Housing, Aldershot
- Feb 04.
·
Engaged successfully with young people on the
streets in Aldershot along with the warden for
that area, and supported his project plans
·
Engaged with a group of young people with
anti-social behavioural issues in Farnborough in
conjunction with the community safety officer,
and planned projects with them.
Self
Employment as Website Designer, Water Diviner,
Poet & Healer - Hampshire - from
1999
Trained extensively for
divining & healing, and mostly taught
myself web design.
Wide experience of working
sensitively with all sorts of people,
including many elderly.
Updating of
the national NFSH WEBSITE, initiated by
attending council meetings to discuss
Presentations
to meet clients needs – WebDesign
projects completed
Reports for
Clients after water divining in the
field, and on maps
General
running of a business, inc finance,
publicity etc.
Organized
series of poetry events in Winchester,
and applied/got funding for these.
Continued
with poetry, art, and storytelling
workshops in schools & outdoor
venues, plus readings for adult groups
Special
Needs Assistant (& Midday Supervisor)
at Beaumont County Junior School, Aldershot,
from August 98, after moving south from Yorkshire.
Continued writing & publishing, & did odd
jobs.
Self
Employed in Yorkshire from 1991-1998
Freelance
Writer - mostly environmental &
philosophical articles
Published
poetry in journals around the world (inc
in Japanese & German translation).
Poet &
Artist in SCHOOLS around UK & read
own work at many venues & on RADIO
Storytelling
events in several outdoor venues around UK
– Chatsworth and other Gardens
ADULT
creative writing TUTOR in the West
Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds
Two Tours
Performing Poetry in the USA, inc Radio
and TV interviews & readings
FOUNDED &
ORGANISED Yorkshire Rainbow Festival
(varied events over several wks)
Applied for & got funding for these
events.
Published
& Edited magazines and books, under
name of Woodman’s Press
Ran poetry
and short story competitions where
readers voted for winners
Client based
work - PR, Copywriting, Word Processing,
Typesetting, Proofreading, Printing,
Design, Artwork and Illustration.
Returned
to England and concentrated on raising young
family (Kent, Derby, Yorkshire) - 1985
Renewals
Clerk – Homes Trust Life Insurance
– 1984 - When I returned to Cape Town South Africa,
this same company I had my first job with were
pleased to hire me again.
Freelance
Writer for Boating Paper in the States -
Assignments & Choice / News & Feature -
1983
Yacht
Crew Member from S Africa to USA - 1982
Also worked along the way, in Bermuda, Caribbean
etc as waitress / ships engineer / garage
secretary.
Computer
Librarian for SAFMarine, Cape Town.
– Admin & communication tasks, liaising
between programmers and operators, stock &
stationery control, reception - 1980 to 81
Costing
Clerk for Reckitt & Colman, Cape
Town - product COSTING and STATISTICS – 1979
to 80
Computerized
Salaries Clerk for Homes Trust Life, a
large insurance company in Cape Town, South
Africa. Included handling POSTAL and
TELEPHONE ENQUIRIES from agents and branch
managers in English, Afrikaans, and Xhosa etc. –
1977 to 79
Over
the years - many part time jobs
(apart from those already mentioned) such as
retail (equestrian shop), admin (fuel depot),
hotels, and sales (dancing lessons, books, and
built in furniture).
Voluntary
work in Nurseries & Schools
in Yorkshire
Reading &
Language work – one to one outside
classroom
Maths &
Science – helping students in class
Drawing with
special needs children – one to one
outside class
Crafts, Games
& Trips – extra curricular
Voluntary
work - CPSA Calthorpe Park High School
in Fleet, Hants.
Voluntary
work – National Federation of
Spiritual Healers:
Elected NFSH
Fleet Centres CHAIR
Elected NFSH
Council Representative for our region at
National Meetings
Elected NFSH
Regional Probationer Liaison Officer -
helping TRAIN new healers -
Including running personal development,
meditation etc workshops.
Other
Interests: Writing, Painting,
Design, Wide variety of music, Walking, Swimming,
Reading (personal development, science,
philosophy, environment, economics, arts &
literature)
FURTHER
EDUCATION:
Certificate
in Life Coaching - Newcastle College
– course written by Fiona Harold - 2005
Diploma
in Advanced Counseling Skills & Ass.
Stress Consultants Member - 92% (BSY, Devon)
– 04
Certificate
and Full Healer Membership - National
Federation of Spiritual Healers – 1999 to
2002
Water
Divining Apprenticeship - with
geologist/diviner – 1998 to 2001
Office
Training to update skills - Index
Recruitment, Fleet - Word/Excel/Access - not
accredited – 99
Apple
Mac & Quark Xpress - with small
press publisher in Reading - not accredited
– 98
Workers
in Schools – WEA & OCN –
In Yorkshire School - top results - 4 credits at
Level 3 – 1998
Interior
Decorating Diploma - Correspondence,
S.Africa - (while working) - 'A' –
1981
First
Year B.Comm. - Correspondence, Uni of
S.Africa (while working) - 3 Credits – 1978
Accounting, Economics, Business
Economics.
Secretarial
Diploma - Cape Town, South Africa - All
relevant skills - 1977
Matriculation
with University entry level results
– Natal South Africa - 1976
Accounting, Maths, English, Afrikaans,
Biology, Geography
OTHER
RELEVANT DETAILS:
CRB
- I have clean Enhanced CRB Disclosure dated May
05.
Nationality
– British
Date
of birth – 1/8/59
Health
- Excellent
Transport
- UK driving license and car owner
Relocation
– Would be willing to relocate for the right
job
REFERENCES
References will be available from current job,
and from a personal referee. (Contact details
given on request.)
Written
References: Excellent written references
from previous employers and associates are
available in my presentation file, including ones
from the Cape Town insurance company that
employed me twice, and ones from the head and
other teachers at the Yorkshire school where I
did a lot of voluntary work, and my NVQ3 workers
in schools training. There are also leaflets from
the festival I organized and other events.
Personal
Statement: I am a people person as well
as a creative person, versatile and adaptable,
and thus lucky enough to be able to excel in many
areas. Good with people of all ages and levels.
Work well in a team, as well as on own.
Motivated, and can motivate & empower others.
Practical and logical as well as creative. Able
to come up with ideas and solutions, and can
manage projects. Optimistic & resourceful. A
quick learner, responding to all learning styles.
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