Bridgette Hassan

• Currently working with 8 children requiring early intervention
• Sessions occur for each child once or twice a week
• Disorders ranging from ASD, ADHD, Tuberous Sclerosis, PICA, Dyspraxia, Global Development Delays
• Ages ranges from 2 - 11 years old
• Supporting verbal, cognitive, physical and social development
• Building rapport with the children to foster a trusting relationship
• Communicating with non-verbal children using baby sign and alternative methods
• Managing challenging and anti-social behaviours compassionately
• Tailored intervention approach to each child's unique needs
• Monitoring progress and making adaptions if required
• Encouraging self-regulation and pro-social behaviours
• Maintaining a positive and collaborative team environment
• Collaborating with the children's parents and informing them of progress and ideas and strategies for home support
• Employing a strengths-based approach to early intervention
• Treating each child with unconditional positive regard

I have done some volunteering for the Gauging Risk and Resilience in Teenagers study, which involved meeting participants and sitting in on an interview. I am hoping to get the opportunity to participate in more interviews when there are some available.

I am working casually as an E-Learning editor for an online module about maternal and infant wellbeing. In this role my responsibilities are:

- Content editing and reviewing

- Collaboration with a team of editors, developers and content creators in meetings

- ensuring content is up to date with current research

• Company Overview: This is a high-needs medical practice with a significant number of former refugees and members of disadvantaged and vulnerable populations who require additional support and care
• Various admin tasks such as answering the phone, booking and rescheduling appointments, booking interpreters, responding to emails, payments, invoicing and learning how to effectively use the computer system 'Evolution.'
• Responding and catering to the various needs of patients across different age spans, demographics and cultures
• Managing challenging patients while remaining polite, cooperative and solution-orientated
• Maintaining positive relationships with coworkers and patients

• Company Overview: Crisis Pregnancy Support and Māmā me Pēpi Oranga (Maternal and Infant wellbeing)
• Attending home visits, alongside an experienced nurse clinician, to places with complex circumstances such as poverty, mental health challenges, food and housing insecurity, and lack of access and engagement with required health services
• During these visits we bought boxes of food and essential items, built rapport and did assessments and referrals to what services they were needing, including help with repaying debts, trying to find a spot in preschool for child with developmental delays, and mental health, physical health and financial aid services for mother
• Being aware and mindful during home visits, of the attachment and communication between children and parents (whether the parents were attuned to cues of their children with responsiveness) the family dynamics, the living conditions of their home environment and child protection and well-being concerns
• Working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team with psychologists, infant and maternal mental health experts, social workers, nurses, midwives, plunket nurses and a paediatrician
• Attending multi-disciplinary meetings where cases were discussed and the team would work collaboratively to find solutions
• Making up gift bags and distributing them to people and services around Nelson to show gratitude for the support they give the women and children through Hapai Taumaha Hapūtanga, and provide them with annually updated booklets of up to date resources and services for vulnerable families

• I helped to ensure a safe, fun and warm space for the children to flourish
• I supported children in their social, cognitive, intellectual and emotional development
• I supported children by encouraging positive behaviours and discouraging anti-social ones
• I supervised children during mealtimes and during outside play
• I kept the environment clean and tidy

• Making breakfast, lunch and dinner for the children
• Playing with them all day, doing puzzles, block building, art and playing outside with swings and sandpit
• Taking them for walks and to the playgrounds
• Putting them to sleep for their scheduled naps
• Changing nappies

• I helped to look after and support a classroom of 1-5-year-old children, supervising their play, reading to them, playing with them and encouraging them to develop emotional regulation and social skills, whilst also fostering creativity and learning

• I helped customers find products, helped out with cleaning the store and did stock take

• Worked sole charge, open/set up the store and closed the store
• Had to handle food and products in a hygienic way, learned to use eftpos machines and cash registers

• Making food, Cleaning, serving customers, Completed sales transactions with customers
• This was a family friend's business who kindly let me work part-time for her as a summer job