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Dr. Leepor Wiliam
Human Resource Manager
California Youth Development
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Dear Mr./Ms.
Re: Temecula California Youth Community Manager
I am writing to apply for the position of Temecula California Youth Community manager, which was advertised in the Daily Post on 15 October 2016.
I am currently a holder of degree in B.A. Social Work. I have a working knowledge with a number of youth development projects and programs that have significantly assisted in acquiring skills required to be a social worker. After my undergraduate degree, I worked as a student tutor for three months teaching and training the students to volunteer to support recreational facilities in Temecula City, which has given me an opportunity to understand the people of this great community. Moreover, I have worked as a volunteer social worker supporting families in devising and implementing care plans for ensuring that children are living safely at home. I feel that my attachment with the young people at Temecula gives me an opportunity to serve them and continue impacting their lives.
I have attached my resume detailing my achievements as a team-leader, good communicator, good time manager, and a dedicated to have an impact on the lives of those I serve. I am a fluent and articulate communicator; I am a fast learner who is always ready and willing to learn new skills. I believe that working with your organization would provide me an opportunity to put my knowledge and skills to work while at the same time gaining experience and developing more skills.
Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to your feedback.
Yours sincerely,
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Career Objective
To obtain a meaningful and challenging position that enables me to work and allow for advancement.
Personal Statement
I am an passionate and diligent social worker with over two years’ experience within the healthcare sector especially in disseminating professional care to the elderly, children, disabled, and sick patients. I am motivated and driven to offer the best possible support for clients who are in need of assistance, social care, and support. I easily adapt to a wide range of situations arising from families and individuals.
Core skills
- HCPC registered
- Leadership skills and supervisory skills
- Maintaining confidential details about the clients
- Assisting the clients with daily chores
- Providing home-based care to the clients
- Easy to liaise with other healthcare professionals such as nurses and physicians
Career History
Social worker- University of Redlands Temecula California
Providing frontline support to the families to ensure their children were living safely and healthy.
Duties
- Liaising with other healthcare professionals and local authorities to provide quality care to children and meet all legal requirements.
- Ensuring that clients were safe in and out of home.
- Recording the progress of the case.
- Supervising the team in their conduct and ensuring that they get quality training.
- Solving conflict from team members.
- Carrying successful assessment of the case progress
Trainer Social worker
Duties
- Played a great role in training students.
- Assisted the students attending the workshop
- Creating teaching plans
- Providing support to the students who were experiencing hard time during the training.
Education
National University- Temecula California
(2011-2014)
BA (Hons) Social Work
Basingstoke Sixth Form College
(2006-2010)
Code of Conduct and Effective Leadership
Effective strategies of instilling integrity and ethics through the code of conduct is a sure way of developing sound corporates. Monahan (2012) claims that the need for ethical leadership is on the rise following the way organizations have fallen out of grace. The increased number of organizations that have incurred losses due unethical leadership have given purpose for ethical leadership, as it is the way to profitability (Monahan, 2012). A leader is referred ethical once his inward virtues guide him in the decision-making process; thus, the followers of such a leader become beneficiaries of the virtuous life of their leader. Monahan (2012) notes that ethical leader is the one that examines the inner character, especially in the tough times. Such a leader uses the right values to lead effectively by using the right actions that can be emulated by others. As such, an effective leader is the one that leads others in the right way by not only making right decisions but also making the right actions.
Jessica (2010) expresses that leadership is the relationship between people; thus an ethical leader is the one who ethically affects others. Jessica (2010) adds that an ethical leader is determined by three requirements; understands ethics, serve as a role model for ethics, and develop and implement a plan for encouraging ethical actions for his members. The study, therefore, affirms that ethical leaders are the ones that do what is right to benefit the people they lead by acting as role models and planning of ways of facilitating ethical activities in an organization. An effective leader should possess a number of virtues that determine the right actions are taken. As Jessica (2010) highlights, the right virtues for an effective leader are the personal commitment that one perceive as of ethical conduct. Some of the good virtues for an effective leader according to Jessica (2010) are integrity, gratitude, ability, respect, courage, and intelligence. The effective use of these virtues are the ones that develop an effective leader who leads in an ethical manner.
Code of Conduct for Policing
The police departments have a code of ethics that is separate from the formalized rules learned in the academy. As a result, the code of conduct of the police is embedded within the departmental rules. However, as Peak (2012) notes, law enforcement has undergone changes over years where agencies have had the power to institute the code of ethics for their officers. Even though the code of conduct is a broad aspect for the officers, they should use them to achieve the agency goals and facilitate their conduct since running afoul of their department can constitute to the losing their career (College of Policing, 2014). As such, the code of ethics or code of conduct for the officers is meant to support officers in their profession and ensure that they deliver the best professional standards when serving the public.
The officers have a hard task of making decisions and comprehensive choices in their daily endeavors. According to the College of Policing (2014), the ethical principles guarding the policing are the ones that determine the choices and decisions made by the officers. As a result, the College of Policing has a key responsibility of supporting the choices made by these officers. This calls for a standard of a set of ethics, principles, and values to guide the actions taken by the officers. This, therefore, reveals the need for developing a standard code of conduct, bearing the fact that the agency departments make their values achieve their goals.
Ethics refers to doing the right thing (Peak, 2012). In the concept of police, ethics relates to making the right decision and action that is in accordance with what is right. The ability of an officer to do what is right upholds the trust that society has in this department while failing to do what is right erodes the society’s trust. As such, the code of conduct should aim at guiding police on undertaking the right actions.
The code of conduct is a clear reflection of the public expectation of those working in the police department (Peak, 2012). The following are the major components of the code of ethics for policing. Honesty and integrity hold the core of the code of standards (College of Policing, 2014). The officers need to be trustworthy and truthful in doing their duties. Integrity in this instance relates to the urge of doing what is right all the time. The two values are the fundamental practices that officers should be equipped with to enhance their practice in the face of the community. The police should use their badge as the symbol of honesty that should guide them in acting in public faith; thus upholding the public trust in all their activities. The officers should have their badge or a warranty card for personal identification (College of Policing, 2014). A trustworthy and integrity standard is essential in promoting a shared responsibility in the society to ensure that the community is willing to participate in curbing disorder and crime in the society once they have entrusted their officers. Moreover, this standard allows the police officer to maintain trust towards his leaders, team, and colleagues. The standard, therefore, functions as an ideal value of enhancing the dependability of an officer while promoting the way he functions as a role model.
Secondly, the police officers should uphold authority, courtesy, and respect in their duties. Through this code of conduct, the police should reinforce their relationship with the society in controlling disorder and crime (Peak, 2012). The police should be polite in their activities despite the situation presented to them. This value is important in facilitating the way police handle an instance that calls their conduct. Along with this value, the police should not use their power and authority to violate the law (College of Policing, 2014). Instead, they should have their authority to facilitate their practices by treating an individual with respect by being courteous to them. The standard also ensures that officers carry their duties in a professional, diligent, and efficient manner. The way that the officer uses this standard determines whether they promote their reputation or they damage it (College of Policing, 2014). As such, the officers should ensure that their language and behavior cannot be regarded as oppressive, abusive, bullying, harassing, or offensive by the public. By adhering to this standard, the officers establishes a high profile of respect and politeness that is essential in reinforcing the relationship between the public and the police.
Along the same, the degree of politeness and respect should constitute to the way an officer perceive equality and diversity (Peak, 2012). The officer should not discriminate unfairly or unlawfully under the attributes of diversity. Instead, the officer should treat all the individuals equally without biases. This is a significant standard facilitating the integrity of the policing profession by ensuring that the officers do not discriminate the members of society under their differences (College of Policing, 2014). The standard promotes the leadership role of the officers in the society by ensuring that all the individuals in society are treated equally according to their needs. As such, the officers should make decisions of merit by using the available information; thus promoting the public’s trust and support of the policing profession.
The extent to which the police should use force should depend on the situation if it is necessary. The instances where such force should be used as a part of their role and responsibility, which should be reasonable and proportionate in all of these circumstances. College for Policing (2014) state that an officer should use minimum force to achieve the desired results. To ensure that the officers uphold this standard, the police should account for any use of force, implying that they have to justify why they used force while being honesty of the instance of using force to ensure that the required information is obtained (Peak, 2012). This standard is important in ensuring that the officers have used force in the right context and prevent the instances of misusing force. This is important in attaining sustainability of the policing to the society; hence being reliable to the society.
Besides, police officers should give orders and instructions in a lawful manner. These instructions should be given under the police regulations to ensure that there is no violation made under the name of giving out laws. This is an effective way of enhancing the relationship between the policing and the community, where the orders given should support the well-being of the community. The police should use this role to ensure that the community has been engaged in a positive way; thus establishing a positive relationship (College of Policing, 2014). Consequentially, the police should as well obey the lawful order given to them while abiding by the police regulations. This standard is important in reminding the officers that they are answerable to the law in case they violate the law (College of Policing, 2014). Any instance where the officers fail to obey orders, they must be ready for inspection. In addition, the policy pushes; for discretion that must be wisely used. However, the officers should use order and instruction careful when using discretion to ensure that they are not a subject to violation of law.
Another code of conduct of the police officers is upholding confidentiality in all their activities. Confidentiality relates to the privacy matters, which are a key area of police conduct. The standard requires the police to respect the data protection principles by ensuring that whether on duty or not, the officer cannot disclose the information to any unauthorized person. Moreover, the standard requires the officers to respect the personal information and data by ensuring that they do not access personal information that is not authorized for their access (College of Policing, 2014). Conversely, the standard relates to the use of the social media that is dominant in the current times. The officers are required to use the social media safely and responsibly by ensuring that they do not post abusive, victimizing, and offensive posts that may be used to discriminate the public or their colleagues (Peak, 2012). Equally, the officers should not publish any material that may undermine the reputation of the police or harm their profession.
Conduct is another standard for the code of conduct of police officers. Under this standard, the police should understand that the public expects them to maintain a higher standard of behavior all the time. In this case, the police should figure out the picture that he or she portray to the public on making any decision whether on or off duty (College of Policing, 2014). The standard affirms that the officer should take action or make a decision that should not lead to the public losing of trust to the policing profession; thus upholding the public integrity of the policing profession.
Fitness for work is yet another code of conduct for the police officers. Through this standard, the officers should be in a position of carrying their roles and meet the policing responsibilities. At such an instance, the police officer should not use any drugs or drink alcohol while on duty (College of Policing, 2014). At the same, when the officers are not fit to undertake their duty, they should report this to any relevant person. This is the appropriate action to take once the officer feels unfit for the duty for either being sick, injured, or even under drug effect; thus preventing any misconduct that may emanate due to such misconduct (College of Policing, 2014). With such a code of conduct, the officers prevent getting to duty when unfit that may result to law violation when on duty; thus damaging the policing reputation. Through leadership, the top officers should decide whether the officer claiming unfit should be given a break or not.
Lastly, police officers should make substantial reports on any improper conduct. Under this standard, the police should never ignore any unprofessional or unethical behavior of a policing colleague regardless of their grade, rank, or role (College of Policing, 2014). The standard affirms that the officers should question the conduct of their colleagues if they do not meet the expected standard. The standard supports the conduct of the officers in the seek for law and order by ensuring that colleague officers are engaging in ethical practices that lead to the attainment of law and order in the society while creating a positive image to the public; thus enhancing the trust that society has in the policing profession.
Technology Proposal
It is apparent that in ten years’ time Temecula, California will undergo massive the change from the population growth, massive migration, technological development, and socio-demographic changes that will all affect the criminal justice system and; thus the policing profession. While considering these changes, it is important to evaluate the way future technological advancement will influence the policing in Temecula. The first major technological move expected to rise is the use of the social media platforms by the police officers (Wydra & Hartle, 2015). Police departments have intensively used these media and expected to use them for two crucial purposes. One is to distribute their personal messages to the members of public and second is to collect information from social media platforms for investigating crime (Wydra & Hartle, 2015). As such, it is expected that many agencies will embrace the art of social media in carrying criminal investigations by observing suspicious posts, share information with the public during the crisis times, and receive crime tips and reports.
Byrne and Marx (2011) claim that the use of hard and soft technology will be of great use in the coming future to prevent crime. For instance, the use of CCTV cameras and drones is a major technological innovation being used to prevent crime. These devices are important in carrying investigations as they have the high tech of capturing and recording criminal information. In addition, there will be the intensive use of less lethal force weapon by police as well as the technology-enhanced patrol cars. These cars according to the Byrne and Marx (2011) have the capability to record crime scene. Once these technologies have been embraced, it will be easy for the agencies in Temecula to carry their activities and; thus, facilitate their practices in curbing crime and maintain order in society.
References
Byrne, J., & Marx, G., (2011). Technological Innovations in Crime Prevention and Policing. A Review of the Research on Implementation and Impact. Cahiers Political Studies, pp. 17-40. ISBN: 978-90-466-0412-0
College of Policing, (2014). Code of Ethics. Retrieved from http://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/Ethics/Documents/Code_of_Ethics.pdf
Jessica, W., (2010). Ethics and Leadership: How Personal Ethics Produce Effective Leaders. Thesis. Claremount McKenna College.
Monahan, K., (2012). A Review of the Literature Concerning Ethical Leadership in Organizations. Emerging Leadership Journeys, 5(1), pp. 56-66.
Peak, K. (2012). Policing America: Challenges and best practices (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education
Wydra, C., & Hartle, F., (2015). Educating the Technology Officer of the Future: A Needs Analsyis. Issues in Information Systems, 16(4), pp. 224-231.
