Open To Work
Nancy Pollock
Ottawa,Ontario
Work Preference
Overview
35
35
years of professional experience
Work History
Resident Program Director
Forest Valley Terrace
11.2023 - 05.2025
- Responsible for nursing staff, for scheduling their shifts, hiring, discipline, training, and payroll. Handling concerns and complaint from residents' families.
- Ensure all routines are being completed each shift, for example shower and laundry for residents, assisting and feeding, changing residents.
- Overnight shift cleaning and overall presentation of each floor.
- 1. Blossom Co-ordinator
- September
- Working with seniors who have dementia. Create and run activities that focus on the cognitive part of the brain. Through physical, mental, emotional, and sensory activities.
- Documentation, bi weekly reports to their families, working on a multidisciplinary team.
- Willing to relocate: Anywhere
Educational Assistant
Ottawa Carleton Catholic District School Board
09.2006 - 06.2023
- Working one on one with children who have special needs. Applying ABA strategies, assistance in completion of their school work and functioning throughout their day.
Educational Assistant Contract
Ottawa Carleton Catholic District School Board
01.2006 - 06.2006
- Working one on one with a boy with Autism
Foster Parent
Partners in Parenting
06.2004 - 03.2005
- Clients preschooler with autism and infant
- Responsibilities:
- - full-time parenting of special needs children
- - liaison with various medical professionals and social workers
- - home programming for preschooler
- - daily logs and documentation
Instructor Therapist
Preschool Autism Program - Eastern Ontario
01.2002 - 03.2004
- Clients: preschool children with autism
- Responsibilities:
- - one-to-one therapy using Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) and Intensive Behavioural Intervention (IBI) in formal programming context
- - preparation and teaching of communication tools using Picture Exchange Communication (PECS) and Manding
- . intensive experience in tracking mands and using pecs
- . encourage communication by creating a communication rich environment
- - develop and implement behavioural programs
- - implementation of ABA/IBI in an informal context through hands on immediate interaction with the child
- - organizing and maintaining the child's file
- - collecting data, graphing and base lining
Youth Worker
Youth for Christ Canada
08.2000 - 11.2001
- Clients: teens, ages 13-18
- Responsibilities:
- - managed Young Offenders Community Service Program and helped run a drop-in centre
- - counselling teens who are survivors of sexual and physical abuse
Education
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Kingston Christian School
Kingston, ON, CA06.2000
Diploma - undefined
George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology
Toronto, ON, CA06.1990
Skills
- For over 30 years I have worked in the Social Service field as a Child and Youth Counselor Within agencies such as Youth Services Bureau, CHEO, CAS homes, mental health hospitals, and Ottawa Catholic School Board Working with children and teens who have special needs, experiencing homelessness, sexual and physical abuse, suicidal, and young offenders Throughout my career I have worked on multidisciplinary teams, wrote and presented plan of cares, and daily documentation (10 years)
Languages
English
Professional Working
Timeline
Resident Program Director
Forest Valley Terrace
11.2023 - 05.2025
Educational Assistant
Ottawa Carleton Catholic District School Board
09.2006 - 06.2023
Educational Assistant Contract
Ottawa Carleton Catholic District School Board
01.2006 - 06.2006
Foster Parent
Partners in Parenting
06.2004 - 03.2005
Instructor Therapist
Preschool Autism Program - Eastern Ontario
01.2002 - 03.2004
Youth Worker
Youth for Christ Canada
08.2000 - 11.2001
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Kingston Christian School
Diploma - undefined
George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology
Additional Information
- I have worked at CHEO as a therapist with children who have autism. Foster parent to children with special needs that have been removed from their homes by C.A.S. due to abuse.
- Hinks Treatment Center in Toronto a mental health facility for teens struggling with mental health.
- Samson House in Kingston an outpatient agency for teens dealing with mental health.