Naomi Salawu

Passionate about justice and equality for all. Excellent communicator and confident public speaker. Strong ability to dissect complex tasks into simple steps before cascading to the team to make changes. Ability to work with where people are at and enhance their skills alongside making changes to organizations using strength based models. Qualified social worker with 17 years experience with children and young people both in formal and informal settings. Strong leadership skills and ability to work with people from a range of domains including board members to volunteers. Vocal individual whose vision is to make lived experiences fairer and achievable for all to succeed and prosper in life. My heart and passion remains active for those children and young people who may not have been treated fairly by structural systems in place. Anti racism and oppression is in the heart of all my work. Working with some of the most vulnerable children and young people in our society. Ensuring diversity needs to be advocated and that offenders are treated as children first whilst maintaining and understanding the impact crime has on victims and the community. Lead areas include; Transitions, Resettlement Pathways, Custody and Group Work. Managing a team of 7 staff including senior and lead workers. Quality assuring work to be presented to the courts and assessments that identify three key areas including risk to self, risk to others and re offending. Developing creative pathways to simplify complex tasks and motivating the team to continue to deliver this complex staff but ensuring their development is also paramount. Ensuring all young people's needs and well being are paramount and ensuring staff work in a trauma informed way with families and children and young people alongside adhering to the requirements and National Standards laid out by the Youth Justice Boards. Currently updating and working on an improvement plan in conjunction with board members to take Hackney from ofsted result Good to Outstanding and ensuring the new key performance indicators are embedded in practises. Various training and additional qualifications in line with mandatory requirements to remain a qualified Social Worker and self development. Expert witness to the courts (EWI). Training includes but is not limited to; cognitive behavioral therapy, systemic practises, asset plus training, law, behavioral management, staff management, good lives model, trauma informed practises, early childhood adverse experiences and Leadership ship skills, behavioral change management, conflict resolution, fast learner, effective time management, decision making, ability to multitask, ability to work with and manage a team, ability to implement change within organizations, ability to dissect complex tasks into digestible sizes to create a change, quality assurance of documents including those presented to the courts, excellent communicator, confident public speaker incl. chamber events, critical thinking and problem solving skills, risk management assessments, safety and wellbeing assessments and monitoring, program creator and implementation, supervisory experience, personal coach and motivator, ability to work under pressure, effective team leaders, complex problem solving.