Joalida Smit Email and Phone Number
I am a Clinical Psychologist (MA Clin Psych, South Africa) and Clinical Neuropsychologist (MSc Paeds Neuropsychology, UCL, UK) who now lives and works full-time as an artist in the USA. Previously, I worked in the NHS for 15 years, the last 5 years setting up and managing a neuropsychology cancer survivorship service. My background is in clinical research: I worked as a research coordinator on a clinical trials site in Cape Town preparing cross-cultural communities for phase III vaccine trials. This formed part of SAAVI and the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation. I published widely in this area. Returning to South Africa in 2016, I started a private practice focusing on neurodevelopmental disorders and medico-legal assessments. In 2019 I opened The Memory Clinic in conjunction with Harbour Bay Hospital in Simons town. This service was suspended during COVID when I found myself stuck in the USA during lockdown and where I now live full-time with my husband, two children and a dog named Squiggles. Since 2020 I have been working with Next Steps Academy to develop high-quality online seminars for psychologists and educators. Since 2020 I have been a full-time artist and mother.
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Content CreatorNext.Cpd Jan 2020 - PresentSouth AfricaDuring COVID I collaborated with Next Steps Academy CPD to develop a series of seminars on reading development and impairment. These are run twice a year via zoom
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Managing DirectorThe Memory Clinic And Child Psychology And Neuropsychology Mar 2016 - Jul 2020Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaEstablished Child Psychology and Neuropsychology, a private practice focusing on the assessment of neurodevelopmental conditions and medico-legal assessments. In 2019, I opened The Memory Clinic at Harbour Bay Medical Hospital in Cape Town, focusing on mild to moderate cognitive disorders, including age-related decline. We offered a multi-disciplinary service supporting clients within the community. This service was unfortunately closed during COVID.
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Principle Clinical NeuropsychologistUniversity College London Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust Jan 2008 - Apr 2014London, England, United KingdomLead clinician managing a dedicated, across the lifespan, brain cancer survivorship transition service across three key cancer treatment sites in London: GOSH, UCLH NHS Trust and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery NHS Trust. We developed specific assessment protocols for specific tumor types, establishing a cross-disciplinary database, research grant proposals and best practice guidelines.I also completed my Masters in Neuropsychology on the data collected from this patient cohort. -
Principle Clinical PsychologistBirmingham Women'S And Children'S Nhs Foundation Trust Jan 2005 - Dec 2007Birmingham, England, United KingdomHospital-based position working across all pediatric disciplines with dedicated time in Oncology, Epilepsy-surgery, and acute traumatic brain-injury. Assessment and therapy with children and families both as in and out-patients. We ran a crises intervention call-out service for the entire hospital in addition to maintaining our clinical work, attending ward rounds and multi-disciplinary meetings. Working closely with the MDT, establishing good relationships to act as liaison between child/family and the medical team were instrumental to this role.Completed the Diploma in Pediatric NeuropsychologyCompleted Statement of Equivalence (a program initiated by British Psychological Society to bring my foreign training in line with the doctoral program in the UK. -
Clinical Research CoordinatorMrc Unit For Anxiety And Stress Disorders Jan 2003 - Dec 2004Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaA joint initiate between the MRC in South Africa, The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre and SAAVI (South African Aids Vaccine Initiative) to prepare cross-cultural, semi-urban, communities for phase III clinical trials. Developed psychosocial studies, from proposal to publication, examining risk-behaviors, mental health, attitudes towards and willingness to participate in phase III clinical trials. This included literature review, writing proposals, ethics submissions, developing SOPs and guidelines, training researchers on protocols, questionnaire-development, data-collection protocols, data-analysis, writing up and publishing in peer-reviewed journals. This work resulted in six first author publications. One of these papers describe the development of a cross-cultural questionnaire to assess major psychopathology in an African context (Smit, 2006). This research resulted in six first-author publications
Joalida Smit Education Details
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Clinical Psychology
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Joalida Smit works for Next.cpd
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Joalida Smit's current role is Clinical Psychologist, Neuropsychologist, turned full-time artist. Worked in NHS and private practice. Not licensed in USA..
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Joalida Smit attended Ucl, Stellenbosch University, University Of Cape Town.
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