Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Affiliations
References
Hobbies and Interests
Timeline
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Vinod Lal

Hamilton,WKO

Summary

  • My Why – to engage with the men in our care with a multi-dimensional approach, equipping them with life skills, prepare them to live in the community with pride. To stand tall and be confident to access support and live normal life. If your whanau are proud of the changes you have made, I am doing the right thing. He aha te mea nui
  • Te ao? He Tangata, he tangata, he tangata

Overview

35
35
years of professional experience

Work History

Programme Supervisor

Department of Corrections New Zealand
01.2016 - Current
  • Maintaining own skill and development focus
  • Maintaining supervisory relationships with supervisees
  • Modelling professional behaviours
  • Providing assessments, evaluate practice and provide feedbacks
  • Responsible for decision making relating participant and their rehab needs, group fits and their eligibility
  • Update the PF regularly on the performance and practice of facilitators
  • Review offender progress
  • Managing relationships and responsiveness to cultural diversity
  • Provide practice supervision with behavioral evidence
  • Evaluate quality of programme delivery
  • Support and assist facilitator growth and progression
  • Providing guidance to PF to identify suitable co-facilitation pairings and programmes to enhance facilitator growth and programme effectivity
  • Develop and implement operational policies and procedures to ensure efficiency and accuracy of workflows.
  • Coaching facilitators to enhance their practice
  • Develop and provide professional development sessions to the team of facilitators
  • Delivering reflective practice sessions to help facilitators gain ideas and experiences to identify and manage behavior issues in the group
  • Providing guidance and support to facilitators to create therapeutic atmosphere in their interventions
  • Assisting facilitators to implement Hokai Rangi principles in their practices.
  • Ensure the participants are safe
  • Ensure safety of the facilitators
  • Maintain programme Integrity
  • Review safety plans, treatment plans and session notes
  • Identify risks and manage them
  • Observe the core business focus on RNR principles
  • Provide written feedback to facilitators on their progress
  • Provide evidential update to the PF of facilitator training needs or any ongoing support required
  • Review recorded session footages and provide effective feedback in a timely manner
  • Regular supervision weekly / fortnightly meetings

Acting Principal Facilitator ( Short Terms)

Department of Corrections New Zealand
Hamilton, Hamilton
01.2015 - 12.2018
  • Managing HR issues within the team
  • Making decisions around programme delivery and targets
  • Managing a budget
  • Maintaining a high standard of integrity and professionalism in all dealings
  • Dealing with conflicts that arise within a team
  • Performance management of the team
  • Chairing team meetings and team building sessions
  • Motivating the team to exceed their own expectations
  • Scheduling of programmes using IOMs and other spreadsheets
  • Forward thinking when dealing with potential issues, contingency plans and a risk register
  • Provide support and guidance to the team
  • Relationship building with key stakeholders
  • Ensuring that staff is engaged in appropriate training
  • Maintaining a cultural awareness
  • Providing sound decision making and variance reporting on targets vs programme delivery

Part-time Work Party Supervisor

Department of Corrections New Zealand
01.2005 - 12.2014
  • Motivating and managing group of men to safely complete their allocated tasks
  • Safe and humane containment
  • Maintain safety of the men
  • Regular progress to the service centre
  • Complete regular tool checks and maintain tool check list
  • Keep the public by keeping the offenders under good control
  • Maintain discipline and organise safe working distance
  • Demonstrate and train safe handling of tools
  • Safely transporting the offenders to worksites and back to the main reporting centres

Corrections Officer

Department of Corrections New Zealand
06.2003 - 12.2004
  • Basic motivational interviewing for offenders in order to minimise any self harm
  • Large case-loads ranging in difficulty from simple to complex
  • Monitoring progress and running records of observations
  • Assisting with motivational and self care meetings
  • Working within a team and individually
  • Reading both non-verbal and verbal cues when investigating offences and interacting with both offenders and the community
  • Maintain safe and secure containment
  • Maintaining a high standard of integrity and professionalism in all dealings
  • Keeping up to date with training requirements and training opportunities
  • Unexpected changes in shifts and work load
  • Identifying issues and providing solutions that are suitable to all concerned
  • One on one meetings and feedback to Unit manager

School Teacher

Schools in Fiji / New Zealand
01.1990 - 12.2003
  • Planning lessons and delivering and training the students to their individual learning abilities
  • Prepare assessments and evaluate student learning
  • Preparing students for external examinations
  • Training the sports teams in the schools
  • Carry out regular health inspections
  • Keeping the students safe
  • Keeping running records of their progress
  • Hold Parent teacher meetings regularly and provide update on the progress
  • General conduct and rule obedience
  • Maintaining neatness and tidiness
  • Preparing lesson for lower achievers and running extra classes

Programme Facilitator

Department of Corrections New Zealand
01.2005
  • Facilitation of a variety of programmes
  • Writing reports on the participants of a programme
  • Intervention planning for each participant
  • Identifying therapy interfering behaviours and responding to them appropriately
  • Transparent behaviour in the programme room along with in supervision
  • Maintaining a cultural awareness
  • Varying communication styles in order to get the best from the group
  • The sharing of ideas and skills with colleagues and other departments within corrections
  • Dealing with conflict with individuals and within a group situation, whilst still looking to resolve the issue successfully for all concerned
  • Maintaining a high standard of integrity and professionalism in all dealings
  • Keeping up to date with training requirements and training opportunities
  • Maintaining a professional detachment from the offenders whilst still working therapeutically
  • The ability to work within a team and individually
  • The ability to both receive and give feedback
  • Using Care online to record attendances

Education

Te Reo Certificate - Te Reo

Te Wananga
04.2003

Offender Management Training
Wellington, NZ
01.2003

Bachelor of Education /Educational Psychology - Educational Psychology

University of the South Pacific Fiji
12.2002

Skills

  • Hokai Rangi implementation
  • Partnership and leadership
  • Humanising and healing
  • Whanau engagement
  • Incorporating Te Ao Maori worldview
  • Whakapapa connection
  • Foundations for Participation
  • Alignment of Kaupapa values
  • Manaaki
  • Kaitiaki
  • Rangatira
  • Wairua
  • Programme facilitation
  • Intervention planning
  • Therapy interfering behaviors
  • Cultural awareness
  • Communication skills
  • Conflict resolution
  • Integrity and professionalism
  • Teamwork
  • Feedback giving and receiving
  • Record keeping
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Case management
  • Teaching and training
  • Lesson planning and delivery
  • Assessments and evaluations
  • Sports coaching
  • Health and safety
  • Parent-teacher meetings
  • Organizational skills
  • Language proficiency in Hindi
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Problem-solving
  • Learning new skills
  • Boccia (sport) committee membership
  • Trustee experience
  • Referee contacts available

Affiliations

  • 1994 – 1995 Committee Member Fiji Teachers Union
  • 1995 – 2002 Fiji Teachers Union Credit Union Board Member
  • 1998 – 2002 President of Religious group (membership of 25 families)
  • Currently secretary of a large Hindu religious group (meetings regularly) Liaison personal on local levels as well as other ethnicities in New Zealand.
  • 2000 – Toured Japan presenting Youth Seminars as Youth Ambassador to Japan (JICA) sponsored in conjunction with Ministry Of Education Fiji.
  • Since 2018 – Committee Member of Waikato Boccia Trust
  • Trustee of corporative freehold land Vanua Levu.

References

  • Mark Holland, Principal Facilitator, mark.holland@corrections.govt.nz, 0276722406
  • Juliet Todd-Oldehaver, Registered Clinical Psychologist, jto.psych@hotmail.com, 0277689421

Hobbies and Interests

  • Meeting people and helping people
  • Sporting activities - fishing and soccer, volley ball
  • Religious functions and gatherings and providing guidance and encouraging younger generations for participation
  • Learning new skills

Timeline

Programme Supervisor

Department of Corrections New Zealand
01.2016 - Current

Acting Principal Facilitator ( Short Terms)

Department of Corrections New Zealand
01.2015 - 12.2018

Part-time Work Party Supervisor

Department of Corrections New Zealand
01.2005 - 12.2014

Programme Facilitator

Department of Corrections New Zealand
01.2005

Corrections Officer

Department of Corrections New Zealand
06.2003 - 12.2004

School Teacher

Schools in Fiji / New Zealand
01.1990 - 12.2003

Te Reo Certificate - Te Reo

Te Wananga

Offender Management Training

Bachelor of Education /Educational Psychology - Educational Psychology

University of the South Pacific Fiji

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