TRACY MARIE FENTON

Mobile No: +44-775******* Email: ad288q@r.postjobfree.com Greater Manchester, UK Personal Profile

Welfare Officer Art Facilitator Chaplaincy & Pastoral Support I have successfully combined art and creative education as a peripatetic experience around the world. My work includes mainstream, kindergarten, universities, colleges, special educational measures, high profile charities, humanitarian projects, NGOs’, churches and in communities. In management and as a teacher, I have been involved in the infrastructure of development within the schools. I have developed interventions for students with SPLD and (DIS)abilities. I have supported and created community projects, which students and staff have been involved in. I am dedicated to making a difference in people's lives by ensuring the appropriate support, education system, and wellbeing, including healthy minds healthy words, healthy loving of self and relationships, safeguarding, motivation and one to one session, confidence building, identity and personal growth with quality, confidentiality, and understanding is at the forefront of everything I do.

Professional Experience

Student Welfare Officer – The Global Banking School, Manchester (Jan. 2023 – Present) At present, I am full-time at The Global Banking School in Manchester. I am a welfare support officer for students of all abilities. I support the staff by offering alternative approaches to teaching for the wellbeing of the students and their individual needs. I provide pastoral care, group and 1-1 sessions; I write reports and risk assessments, I provide reasonable adjustments for their educational needs whilst studying. I organize workshops and focus groups for the students, collaborate with the other teams within the university to provide support for the students and staff, including liaising with outside agencies. I provide emotional, physical, spiritual, economic, and mental health well-being for the students. I write programs for them to achieve their attendance and qualifications. I am using ex-cell programs and monitoring results through the KPI system. Set up and coordinated Student Foodbanks across all GBS Campuses based in Manchester, London, Art Facilitator / Pastoral Care – Freelance Contracts – UK, Africa, Europe, Guam, America, (Jan. 2008 – Dec 2022)

• Colour - Wheel Art Classes - Teaching art to adults, all forms of materials, mediums, and methods. Weekly classes for retired Professional people on a one-day-a-week basis.

• Bolton at Home - Teaching ESOL to refugees in Bolton, supporting their needs, and encouraging Community engagement.

• Be Strong - provided support, well-being, and personal development to ex-offenders living in supported housing, provided by a charity. That specializes in life-changing opportunities. I provide pastoral care with counseling, interventions, and alternative methods of coping with traumatic life issues, healthy relationships, healing from self-harm, and drug and alcohol misuse. Listening and talking sessions, creative and emotional education.

• Working with woman in domestic workshops, providing workshops. Coping mechanism, creative interventions, listening service.

• Trauma informed. Person Centered holistic approach worked in homeless.

• Formed a charity SOS in Bolton and Blackpool, fundraised for a food bus to deliver to community. Principal and Director – The Montessori School, Kurdistan, Iraq (Sept. 2019- Jan. 2020) Duties included:

• Integral decision making and running the school including hiring and dismissing staff.

• Staff support: coaching, delegating work to other staff, one-to-one meetings, targets, Personal Development Plans, measuring and monitoring the performance of staff, authorizing leave entitlements.

• Support the needs of all students and identify those with SEEN and disabilities.

• IEPs for students identified with SEEN.

• Supporting emotional well-being including psychosocial support with students and staff

• Networking to increase the capacity of students, Writing reports, and Parent evenings.

• Teacher training: introducing safeguarding, health & safety, first aid, creative education consultancy, and development of training for children with special needs.

• Developing an extremely loving caring nurturing environment for all Holistic Arts Teacher and Student Support Coordinator – University of Kurdistan Hewler, Kurdistan, Nov. 2016- Sept. 2019 / www.bigissuenorth.com minority report 2017/07 Duties included:

• Organising facilitating and providing workshops for the students and the IDP (internally displaced people) Yezidi camp in Erbil

• Building and maintaining partnerships, coordinating with doctors and health professionals

• Supporting emotional well-being including psychosocial support

• Monitoring and implementing the supply of resources and managing volunteers with ad hoc English Teaching responsibilities.

• Events planner, organizing exhibitions, network events, and conferences.

• Educating students in the holistic approach/progression of well-being. Classes on various methods of creativity, including art, writing, meditation methods, and Acceptable social interaction. Humanitarian Speaker April - 2017-2019

Self-employed: Collaboration with United Nations United Nations High Commission, Barzani Charity Foundation, International Organisation for Migration, Danish Refugee Council

Duties included:

• Preparing, organizing, and speaking at humanitarian conferences. Subjects include: GBV (gender-based violence), FGM (female genital mutilation) IDP (internally displaced people) issues, and women's rights and needs in Erbil.

• Organizing and producing art exhibitions in collaboration with outside agencies for the celebration of women's rights, FGM (female genital mutilation), and other humanitarian concerns

• Facilitating human rights workshops working inclusively and exclusively with outside agencies

• Supplying holistic healing, well-being workshops, and consultations in psychosocial development

• Networking with local tv stations, radio, and media to gain support in all the above areas (YouTube) (kurdistantv.info) The Big Issue (UK). Presenting on TV shows of KRG- demonstrating the results of successful education

• Marketing, data management, educational research, and paper published on The Transformation of Education in the Middle East Sociology and Psychology Teacher, Jan. 2014 – July 2015, Essa Academy Duties included:

• Taught and followed the GCSE national curriculum for Key stages 3/4 and created individualized student personal progression plans.

• Designed and facilitated PowerPoint presentations to inform the students of the rich diversity in the school.

• Collaboration with local musicians, artists, and galleries to produce work by the students to showcase their work and promote their identities and developed a lunchtime club for the students as a place of safety and to make healthy relationships. Art and Design Teacher (Pastoral, Creative & Well-being Supports) Sept. 2011 – Jan. 2013, Harrop Fold School and Lever Park School, Special State School, Bury College Pastoral Care January 2013- 14 Duties included:

• Following national curriculum at key stage 3/4 art and design and providing alternative education for SEEN students.

• Developing therapeutic trauma informed strategies for students.

• Sourced alternative methods of teaching (pedagogy) to ensure accessibility for students with Autism and Aspergers.

• Coordinated with social workers to implement strategies of support for LAC, analysed and produced reports.

• Implemented and organised work experiences for the student’s future career potential with outside agencies and business

• Organising and coordinating large events such as the end-of-year exhibition. Director of Community interest company Jan. 2006 – Sept. 2016, Artfantastic-Healing Arts CIC Duties included:

• The creation and startup of this Community Interest Company (CIC) by authoring a five-year business plan; sourcing/obtaining funding; obtaining a low-rate community center; by recruiting/hiring /Training staff and volunteers; and writing policies and guidelines.

• Pastoral care for students with emotional behavior problems.

• Workshops and intervention programs in schools across the northwest, facilitating strategic intervention.

• Created anger management programs for students with recurring behavioral patterns.

• Case management including assessments and contacting clients to arrange appointments.

• Provided monthly supervision including one-on-one meetings with all staff members to provide support for daily work and development.

• Provided QC/QA across all departments; wrote reports; coordinated volunteers; and chaired annual general meetings (AGM) meetings as well as meetings with the community and internal/external stakeholders. Regional Project Co-Ordinator, Jan. 2003 - May 2006, Groundwork Cheshire Duties included:

• Successfully developed tools and processes that identified and assessed young people and acted on their behalf as their advocate.

• Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of education, employment, and training opportunities developed by cultivating productive relationships with community partners.

Education & Professional Development

Training completed in 2020 - 2023:

Safeguarding Children (Awareness) for Health & Social Care CPD Certified Safeguarding Children and Adults Level 1 & 2 Mental Health Autism Awareness Information Security CPD Equality and Diversity for Health and Social Care CPD First Aid Training Level 3 Food safety and Hygiene Information Governance Food Safety & Hygiene Medication & Safe Handling of Medicines First Aid o Salford City Council, Salford, Manchester

o Waverley Abbey College, Surrey, Contemporary Chaplaincy qualification o University of Salford, Manchester

o MA Creative Education Awarded Merit with Distinction (2016 – 2017) o University of Bolton, Greater Manchester

o BA of Fine Arts (2:1), HE Level 5 Reflective Approaches to Mentoring (2010), Art and Design Diploma with Distinction (2010), PGCE City & Guilds (2004), Level 1 & 2 in Counselling (2004), HND in Textiles (2003) References Available Upon Request.

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