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Poole, Gb

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Southampton, United Kingdom

Working within the Southampton Psychological Service, based within the Southampton West Adult Community Mental Health Team.Providing specialist clinical psychology therapist service to clients of the service team, across all sectors of care; providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy; supervision and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers; working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures; utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development, and research in line with service need; undertaking personal research and development and contributing to a research culture in the clinical team.

University Of Southampton

My third year consisted of:ACT trainingSpecialist placement in Basingstoke CMHT.Training in leadership, supervision and consultationTraining in transdiagnostic processes Thesis write-up and viva My second year involved training and clinical placements in:Child and AdolescenceClinical Practice in relation to People with Learning DisabilitiesSystemic Theory and PracticeThesis Proposal and data collectionPlacements in CAMHS and LD services.My first year comprised training and projects in:Foundations of Clinical Psychology PracticeCognitive-Behavioural TherapySystemic Theory and PracticeNeuropsychologyAdapting Clinical Work for Different Populations Evidence-Based PracticeResearch MethodsSmall scale research project on team development in a recently merged CMHTPlacements in older adult and adult mental health

St. Ann'S Hospital, Poole

Assistant psychologist based at the low secure forensic mental health unit at St. Ann's hospital, Poole.

Antelope House, Southampton

I began a clinical role at Antelope House, an adult mental health inpatient unit in Southampton, following the service evaluation role. During this position I was responsible for facilitating group sessions with service users, teaching skills and alternative coping strategies which were informed by various models; CBT, DBT, CFT. Group content included anxiety management, compassionate internal dialogue, emotional coping skills and mindfulness sessions. Additionally I assisted in enhancing the psychologically minded approach to the wider hospital staff, by bringing in other staff to co-facilitate sessions and supervise them in this activity. Furthermore, I maintained the clinical databases and evaluated progress of group via clinical outcome measures.

Shft Inpatient Hospitals, Hampshire

I worked as an assistant psychologist helping to promote and evaluate a psychologically informed model to mental health applied across four mental health hospitals. The Intensive Support Programme (ISP) asserts a recovery model of mental health based on psychological treatment in the acute stage over a typical medical framework. ISP promotes a multi disciplinary approach embedded in psychological principles of third-wave therapies. I supported sustainability of the programme across sites, facilitated group sessions, creating materials and trained staff in data capture. I evaluated the service and acted as lead author for three research publications which are currently at various stages of the publication process.

Bournemouth

I worked with service users who have psychological and physical impairments brought on by acquired brain injury. The aim of the rehabilitation assistant is to build independence and aid with functioning so that the service user can build skills in which to act independently in preparation for transitioning into the community.I acted as a key worker, conducted 1 to 1 sessions with multiple service users and worked alongside the psychology team in order to conduct assessments and implement interventions. In this position I have worked in a multidisciplinary team including health care assistants, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and psychologists in order to support service users with behavioural and psychological impairments.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

As well as my voluntary research at Bournemouth university, I additionally undertook paid research at the institute. This research was being conducted in collaboration with Poole hospital and aimed to redevelop their current map design in order to improve efficiency in terms of visitor speed and accuracy in navigating around the hospital.The research explores principles of wayfinding and implements these on new map design which has lead to vastly superior navigation accuracy. Poole hospital has since implemented our map designs across the hospital.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Worked as a voluntary research assistant examining the relationship between working memory and visual cognition. The research utilised a Dikablis mobile eye tracker along with various psychometric measures including an operation span and visual pattern test for working memory, and the WASI for the intelligence quotient measure.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Worked within a project team implementing a new HR and payroll system controlled electronically by council employees. I manned the help desk, emails, took minutes, gave presentations, used all manner of office software and met targets of the project. High levels of organizational and analytical skills were required.Left after project close in order to complete my MSc.

Msc, Research Methods In Psychology, Distinction

Bsc, Psychology, First

Celta, Tefl - Teaching English As A Foreign Language Pass

Completed the teaching course which enables me to teach English to non English speakers.