Brenna Smyth

Youth Worker within the Care and Therapy programme, working at the residential houses throughout South Auckland.

- Completed First Aid training and CPI Safety Intervention foundation training.

- Building and sustaining relationships with the rangatahi, planning and engaging in activities, assessing needs then communicating these back to management, and managing challenging behaviour.

- Working alongside rangatahi with FASD, ADHD, ODD, Autism, and Trauma.

- Completing daily shift logs, incident reports, and missing persons reports.

- Managing household duties, transporting young people, and ensuring young people are completing necessary tasks.

Fourth year Social Work practicum; working in the Youth Justice sector within Oranga Tamariki.

- Built and sustained relationships with the rangatahi and their whanau.

- Completed arrest screenings for rangatahi in police cells.

- Attended Court with rangatahi.

- Visited rangatahi in youth justice facilities.

- Completed case notes after interactions with rangatahi and their whanau.

- Attended Family Group Conferences.

- Attended multi-disciplinary meetings and liaised with other professionals.

- Completed chronologies by reading through case notes.

- Learnt valuable knowledge about the Oranga Tamariki Act and the Youth Justice system.

Third year Social Work practicum; Youth Mentor within the Campus Connections programme.

- Built and sustained relationships with the young people (aged 13-16), engaged in prosocial activities, and used relevant resources to support the young people with youth-identified transition plans and personal goals.
- Attended Waitakere Alternative Education centre two days a week, working alongside staff to support the young people while in school and on weekly outings; also building and sustaining relationships with the young people.
- Completed case notes each day I was working with the young people.
- Worked in the office two days a week; planning prosocial activities, creating a manual for a new project, and taking part in meetings.

I also did the SOCYOUTH 300 paper the following semester as one of my electives and this included continuing on with the Campus Connections weekly programme.

- Gained Licence Controller Qualification 2019; and Duty Managers Certificate 2021.

- As the Duty Manager, I was responsible for delegating various jobs and ensuring they got done properly, training new staff on my shifts, and approving liquor sales. I was also relied on to handle issues at the checkouts; which included complaints, conflicts, late deliveries, and queries.

- Deposited and issued cash floats for the tills; alarmed/disarmed store.

- Comfortable working under pressure; worked in a busy environment and managed multiple checkouts at once.

- Everyday cleaning and organising of store and checkout area.