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 and to partner people with lived experience, university researchers and clinicians.

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.•Facilitated training on the use of solution focused approach to support planning with clients.

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.•Providing out-reach services to organisations to engage service users who might otherwise not consider volunteering.

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. •Completed standardised risk assessments, for instance, violence (HCR-20) and suicide (BDI, RFLI, BHS). Completed in collaboration with clients and indirectly through reviewing clinical records and liaising with other professionals.•Communicating psychological information to relevant agencies involved in client’s care.

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. •Diagnostic counselling for client and/or family.•Developing carer’s support group with other MDT members.

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. •Conducted and reviewed risk assessments to ensure both client and staff safety.•Attended various professionals meetings as service representative: CPA, funding panel, MAPPA, steering group and clinical reviews.

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