Experience

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Trainee Clinical Associate Psychologist (CAP)

  • Mar 2023 - Present



Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Psychologist

  • Jun 2021 - Mar 2023

  • Conducting brief CBT informed interventions known as ‘Initial Interventions’ to a range of adults accessing Secondary Care Mental Health Services. • Assisting in the delivery of training for brief therapeutic interventions. • Co-facilitating psychoeducational therapeutic groups, such as MBTi and a Trauma Recovery Group for working age adults within Secondary Care. • Managing large databases: creating and maintaining waiting lists for treatment and screening assessments; creating quarterly service performance reports; generating staff monthly performance reports. • Assisted in development of a trust-wide service evaluation of Crisis Teams within Kent, with the aim to inform service development in integrating psychological interventions within the CRHT service model. Show less



Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Psychologist

  • Nov 2020 - May 2021

  • Assisting in the development, co-ordination, and co-facilitation of CBT-focussed therapeutic groups for patients with complex mood and anxiety in a secondary mental health service. • Conducting telephone triage reviews/assessments. • Assisting in the development, co-ordination, and co-facilitation of CBT-focussed therapeutic groups for patients with complex mood and anxiety in a secondary mental health service. • Conducting telephone triage reviews/assessments.



Self-employed

• Essex, England, United Kingdom

• Personal Support Worker for a Young Adult with Autism

  • Aug 2020 - Nov 2020

  Providing 1:1 support for a young man with autism and moderate learning difficulties, focussing on cultivating independence by developing life-skills, and improving communication and behaviour. Providing 1:1 support for a young man with autism and moderate learning difficulties, focussing on cultivating independence by developing life-skills, and improving communication and behaviour.



Priory

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Recovery Support Worker

  • Apr 2018 - Aug 2019

  • Supporting and empowering the independence of individuals with a primary diagnosis of Paranoid Schizophrenia, encouraging community engagement and assisting in the completion of daily life activities, such as budgeting, cleaning and cooking. • Establishing and maintaining relationships with service users and implementing care plans. • Maintaining and updating patients’ clinical records, writing patient reports. • Undertook and completed the Care Certificate. • Supporting and empowering the independence of individuals with a primary diagnosis of Paranoid Schizophrenia, encouraging community engagement and assisting in the completion of daily life activities, such as budgeting, cleaning and cooking. • Establishing and maintaining relationships with service users and implementing care plans. • Maintaining and updating patients’ clinical records, writing patient reports. • Undertook and completed the Care Certificate.



Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

• Research Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jul 2017 - Apr 2018

  • Managing recruitment databases: contacting and interacting with participants, co-ordinating institute assessments, generating site specific progress figures, and uploading participant data. • Administering institute assessments, instructing computerised tasks, conducting clinician-rate interviews (such as the WAIS and MINI) and collaborating with radiographers to run MRIs. • Developing a rapport with participants, ensuring a positive participant experience. • Managing recruitment databases: contacting and interacting with participants, co-ordinating institute assessments, generating site specific progress figures, and uploading participant data. • Administering institute assessments, instructing computerised tasks, conducting clinician-rate interviews (such as the WAIS and MINI) and collaborating with radiographers to run MRIs. • Developing a rapport with participants, ensuring a positive participant experience.



NHS

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Administrative Assistant

  • Jul 2012 - Jul 2014

  • Updating, scanning and filing patient’s confidential electronic and paper notes. • Assisting admin staff as a team with requested notes, Dictaphone typing, organising and photocopying relevant information and correspondence. • Demonstrating initiative by implementing a new organisational system for archived paper notes. • Updating, scanning and filing patient’s confidential electronic and paper notes. • Assisting admin staff as a team with requested notes, Dictaphone typing, organising and photocopying relevant information and correspondence. • Demonstrating initiative by implementing a new organisational system for archived paper notes.