Nadine Sousa
London, ON
******.*****@*****.** - 519-***-****
WORK EXPERIENCE
Kennel Assistant
Country Paws Boarding - February 2015 to Present
Part time employment caring for dogs of all ages, sizes, breeds, gender, abilities.
-Ensuring areas are kept clean and sanitized.
-Feeding as per owners requests, medication administration, wellness checks.
Home Visitor/Supervisor
Early Learning Centre - October 2011 to Present
Acting Director of EHCC and Director of Port Burwell Centre.
- Responsible for advertising, marketing, promoting and recruiting for Elgin Home Child Care providers and
children.
- Approving and maintaining homes suitable for home childcare. Responsible for visiting home on a biweekly
basis, ensuring all homes are in compliance.
- Maintaining children and caregiver records to meet the Day Nurseries Act and internal policies. Running
Family and Services check on potential providers, maintaining immunization records, ensuring programming
is complete and all necessities are being posted and requirements understood.
- Creating a yearly caregiver calendar for easy programming, attendance records for both office and caregiver.
Facilitated caregiver workshops, play groups, newsletters and resource kits.
- Working with families to place their children in appropriate homes that meet ministry ratio's and a personality
and lifestyle match.
- Acting Director for the duration of a maternity leave.
Piano Teacher
Various Clients - London, ON - 2002 to Present
Registered Early Childhood Educator
London Bridge Childcare Services (Stoneybrook) - London, ON - March 2009 to October 2011
Facilitated many parent workshops, presented at our first London Bridge conference in front of 150 delegates.
Member of the London Bridge professional development committee and Advisory Board.
- Collaborating as a team to plan and implement a developmentally appropriate program for young children,
including communicating with co-workers, centre team and families. Observation and Documentation of daily
experiences and maintaining individual children's portfolio's
Server
Event Services - London - March 2008 to September 2009
London Convention Center
- Responsible for setting of tables
- Professionally serving large banquets (Weddings, business functions, etc.)
- Making coffee/tea, balancing trays of up to 10 meals, display for functions
Early Childhood Educator
Toddler Room and Supply Staff - April 2005 to January 2008
YMCA of London, Kids and Company
- Caring for children from 16 to 30 months of age.
- Planning activities based on children's interests, needs and developmental age.
- Ensuring safety of all children at all times
o Including toileting, first aid care, emotional support
- Recording anecdotal notes, completing progress reports, accident reports, daily report sheets, administering
medication if need be in accordance to the day nurseries act.
- Cared and planned for my own group of five older toddlers
Server, Hostess, Expediter
Kelsey's Restaurant - Woodstock, ON - August 2002 to July 2005
Served customers, which helped the development of great customer service skills
- Memorization of orders, remembering regular customers usual orders
- Knowledge of all dishes and beverages - ingredients, etc.
EDUCATION
Certificate
College of Early Childhood Educators
Bachelor
University of Western Ontario - London, ON
2006 to 2008
Diploma in Early Childhood Education
Fanshawe College - London, ON
2005
Diploma
Huron Park Secondary School - Woodstock, ON
June 2003