Clare Oneill

I have always considered myself to be a kind and compassionate person who cares highly about the 
impact I can have on understanding and helping those around me. I enjoy learning and educating 
myself to better enhance my understanding of anything I set my mind to, and I feel this is a crucial 
aspect regardless of the environment you are involved in. I am reliable, honest, and focused not only 
in my personal life but also in a work environment and I strive to give as much as I can to meet the 
expectations that are required of me. I can work effectively and efficiently within a team or on my 
own and I am also a quick learner with excellent time keeping. I am a mum to 3 amazing boys, my 2 
eldest sons have autism and I have primarily been a stay-at-home mum for the past 11 years. During 
my time as a stay-at-home mom, I also cared for my mum who was diagnosed with depression, 
anxiety, and arthritis in 2015. In addition to my home life commitments, I also completed multiple 
courses at college including level 2 and 3 support work in schools followed by my bachelor's degree 
in health social care during the pandemic, I volunteered as a teaching assistant and family support 
worker whilst also helping my mother in law clean air b and b properties. My time as a mum/career 
has provided me with many valuable skills such as behaviour management, dealing with life, 
appropriate relationships, boundary setting, emotional expression and control, appropriate 
discipline, role modeling, safety awareness, stress management, communication, listening, patience, 
education delivery, and consistency. In addition to this, being a SEN parent has also given me great 
insight into meeting the expectations of people with complex needs including attending annual 
reviews and filling out relevant paperwork such as EHCP’s and benefit claims. My experience as a 
student, volunteer, and cleaner also taught me many skills such as working to strict deadlines, 
working in line with policies and procedures, the importance of organisation, critical thinking, 
problem-solving, communication with peers, tutors, and extended community, research 
requirements and expectations, working with technology, safeguarding, attention to detail and the 
importance of appropriate hygiene. Even though I haven’t necessarily got a lot of professional 
working experience, I do consider myself to have abundant forms of life experience that I feel is not 
something that can be necessarily taught and I am now in a position to commit to a career to set a 
good example to my boys that with hard work anything is possible regardless of what life throws at 
you.

Wyre day services, community support worker, 2024 - Present

Flake Fleet Primary School. Teaching Assistant, 2017 – 2018.

Homestart UK, Family Support Worker, 2018 -2021

Bridge education/ Red Marsh primary school, 2022 – 2023

GCSE:
• Mathematics - C
• English Literature - C 
• English Language - C
• Science Double Award - DD
• Drama - B
• Design and Tech - C
• RE - C 
• History - C 
Blackpool and the Fylde College, 2016 – 2021.
• Level 2 NVQ in Barbering, 2017.
• NCFE Cache Level 2 Award in Support Work in Schools, 2017.
• NCFE Cache Level 2 Certificate in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools, 2017.
• NCFE Cache Level 3 Diploma in Specialist Support for Teaching and Learning in Schools, 
2018.
• Beginners Sign Language, 2018. 
• Foundation Degree of Arts in Health and Social Care with Commendation, 2020.
• Bachelor of Arts Second Class Honours (Division Two) in Health and Social Care, 2021.
Oplex Careers, 2017 – 2018.
• Level 3 Award in Special Educational Needs Achieving Distinction, 2017.
• Level 3 Award in Family Support Worker achieving Higher distinction, 2018. 
Homestart UK, 2017 -2021.
• First Aid
• Safeguarding