Curtis Sinclair Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, United Kingdom

My focus is on social identity and self-determination as they relate to individuals performing as part of a team.

London, England, United Kingdom

Working as a member of a small but highly effective team, I bring my knowledge and experience in conducting quantitative research methodologies and statistical analysis to projects that seek to address gaps in mental health support and spread good practice nationwide.Working with a range of customers including charities, NHS Trusts, government departments.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Lambeth

• Redesigned the support service for unpaid mental health carers.
• Providing advice, information, advocacy, emotional and crisis support to carers.
• Facilitated carers’ support group.
• Forging links and partnerships with statutory and non-statutory organisations.

London

• Supporting customers primarily to sustain or secure a tenancy through collaborative working using support planning/goal setting.
• As a specialist my role involved working with customers presenting with a complex mental health condition.
• Offering advice and guidance to Support Officers with engaging and supporting customers with complex presentations.
• Providing one-to-one mental health crisis support to ex-rough sleepers.
• Caseload consisted of at-risk clients (i.e. high risk of suicide or harming others).
• A focus on managing risk and reducing need for long admissions achieved through high intensity support and liaising closely with statutory services.

Southwark

• Supporting service users engaged with mental health services to access mainstream volunteer roles.
• Engage client’s pre discharge from hospital in supporting them to identify and prepare for commencing volunteering.
• Facilitating workshops for clients: Communication and Assertiveness, Time and Stress Management.
• Facilitating training for organisations: Mental Health Awareness.
• Developing and facilitating a service user involvement group culminating in a project newsletter.
• Providing advocacy to clients around disclosure, managing difficult situations and crisis planning.

London, United Kingdom

• Completion of placements in community mental health for older people and psychiatric intensive care unit for adult males including forensic clients.
• Worked with complex presentations from acute to long and enduring mental health, offending behaviour, substance misuse and personality difficulties.
• Provided carer’s support to family members.
• Managed own caseload of 10 sessions over 3 days including client contact and MDT work.
• Mentored nursing staff in conducting psychological work such as behavioural plans.
• Worked from a variety of therapeutic modalities including cognitive-behavioural therapy, psychodynamic, systemic, solution focused and behavioural.

Southend On Sea, United Kingdom

• Based within a CMHT for older people and memory service providing neuropsychological assessments for dementia screening.
• Provided individual therapy to clients in an out-patient setting.
• Continued development of advanced counselling skills.
• Provided consultation to in-patient wards and developing behavioural interventions.
• Conducting full battery of neuropsychological testing for dementia.
• Offering feedback to client and their family where appropriate.

Dartford, United Kingdom

• Primarily based within a forensic mental health medium secure unit on acute ward.
• One day per week working within Belmarsh prison providing support to Psychological Therapies Service.
• Assisted ward Psychologist in providing psychological interventions and consultation to the ward.
• Developed advanced counselling skills, for instance, empathy, listening, openness, genuineness and reflection.
• Completed work related to index offence, substance abuse, social skills, insight, interpersonal difficulties.
• Assessment work included personality, intelligence, anger and risk of future violence.

Plumstead

• Based within a forensic mental health hostel.
• Supported the team through active engagement in providing supervision, attending team meetings and handovers.
• Organised and facilitated supervision, individually and group based.
• Conducted appraisals/supervision to foster continued professional development.
• Followed and incorporated government legislation into working practices such as the mental health act, deprivation of liberties, mental capacity, health and social care act and CQC.
• Crisis management at times when client’s mental health deteriorated to ensure their safety and those around them.

Plumstead, United Kingdom

• A challenging role that involved engaging clients who had been discharged from a medium secure hospital.
• Supported clients with their transition from hospital to the community. Key work sessions were vital in creating an effective and positive working alliance with the client.
• Through building a working alliance with the client I was able to learn and/or support them in creating goals and expectations, which were documented in their care plan.
• Facilitated, in collaboration with the client, applications for applicable benefits, such as, disability living allowance and housing benefit.

London, United Kingdom

• Supported the team with the daily duties of the service such as facilitating activities of daily living and recreation.
• Key worked clients, which helped to develop my understanding of client needs and realistic goal setting. This experience also stressed the importance of inter-agency working.

Master'S Degree, Sport & Exercise Psychology, Distinction

Ba Hons, Psychology, First Class Honours