Terrence Buckson
Conover
Summary
Detail-focused Assistant brings hands-on approach and amazing energy to meet task-based needs. Reliable, quick-paced and team-oriented nature streamlines background operations. Focused comprehension to accomplish projects and multi-task to meet concurrent deadlines and expectations.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
Work History
Teachers Assistant EC Classroom
West Iredell High School
Statesville
11.2023 - Current
- Attend staff meetings and serve on committees, as required
- Clean classrooms
- Collect money from students for school-related projects
- Conduct demonstrations to teach skills, such as sports, dancing, and handicrafts
- Discuss assigned duties with classroom teachers to coordinate instructional efforts
- Distribute teaching materials, such as textbooks, workbooks, papers, and pencils, to students
- Distribute tests and homework assignments and collect them when they are completed
- Enforce administration policies and rules governing students
Team Leader
Aramark/Catawba County Jail
Newton
07.2021 - 10.2023
- Conduct daily shift huddles to communicate daily operational priorities
- Train and guide staff on job duties, proper food safety, sanitation procedures, cooking methods, etc
- Oversees the completion of tasks
- Supervises the preparation and serving of meals while ensuring proper portion and special dietary requirements
Direct Support Professional
RHA H
Maiden
06.2021 - 10.2023
- Provide direct support for individuals with disabilities
Security Guard
Allegiance Industries Inc
Bladenboro
02.2019 - 04.2021
- Make regular rounds of the interior and exterior of the company premises
- Patrol and monitor the staff parking areas
- Respond to staff calls for assistance
- Initiate calls for assistance to City Police or Fire Department as needed
- Complete Incident Report forms
Psychiatric Technician (Psych Tech)
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Davidson
Davidson
10.2011 - 02.2021
- Complete safety rounds on a total of 22 patients to ensure their safety
- Maintain a safe environment on a dual diagnosis unit for mental health and substance abuse patients
- Assist nurses with the completion and documentation of vital signs
- Facilitate groups and activities with the patients
- Complete annual trainings and certifications
- Transport patients to their ECT appointments and other various destinations
Transition Specialist
The Relatives
Charlotte
04.2008 - 08.2016
- Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools
- Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, administrators, and other professionals to discuss children's progress, resolve behavioral, academic, and other problems, and to determine priorities for students and their resource needs
- Identify cases of domestic abuse or other family problems and encourage students or parents to seek additional assistance from mental health professionals
- Counsel individuals to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational situations
- Counsel students regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning
Crisis Intervention Specialist
New Hope Carolinas
Rock Hill
05.1998 - 10.2008
- Maintain confidentiality of records relating to clients' treatment
- Encourage clients to express their feelings and discuss what is happening in their lives, helping them to develop insight into themselves or their relationships
- Collect information about clients through interviews, observation, or tests
- Assess patients for risk of suicide attempts
- Fill out and maintain client-related paperwork, including federal- and state-mandated forms, client diagnostic records, and progress notes
Residential Counselor
York County Board of Disabilities
York
06.1995 - 05.1998
- Assisted mental health clients with daily independent living skills
- Prepared healthy meals and snacks for the clients
- Administered daily medication to clients
- Facilitated groups and activities with the clients
- Maintained the safety and cleanliness in the Community Training Home
Education
Associate of Arts - Teacher Preparation
Catawba Valley Community College
Hickory, NCSkills
- Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Instructor
- Outstanding verbal deescalation skills
- CPR
- First Aid
- Distribute instructional or library materials
- Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products
- Monitor student performance
- Classroom management
- Curriculum development
- Student assessment
- Lesson planning
- Behavioral intervention
- Effective communication
- Team collaboration
- Crisis intervention
- Meeting coordination
- Multitasking and organization
Licenses Certificates Training
- Certified Crisis Prevention, 05/01/24, North Carolina
- First Aide/CPR, 01/01/24, North Carolina
References
- References available upon request
Timeline
Teachers Assistant EC Classroom
West Iredell High School
11.2023 - Current
Team Leader
Aramark/Catawba County Jail
07.2021 - 10.2023
Direct Support Professional
RHA H
06.2021 - 10.2023
Security Guard
Allegiance Industries Inc
02.2019 - 04.2021
Psychiatric Technician (Psych Tech)
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Davidson
10.2011 - 02.2021
Transition Specialist
The Relatives
04.2008 - 08.2016
Crisis Intervention Specialist
New Hope Carolinas
05.1998 - 10.2008
Residential Counselor
York County Board of Disabilities
06.1995 - 05.1998
Associate of Arts - Teacher Preparation
Catawba Valley Community College