I worked as part of a team providing online support, advice and a referral service across multiple platforms and apps for both young people aged 11-25 years and adult service users. Implementing the Online Services Moderation Strategy across platforms. Monitoring and moderating user-generated content. Cultivating a strong sense of community around our service users, engaging users and ensuring that the online community is maintained as a safe and fun environment.

As a sessional Youth Engagement Worker for YoungMinds I worked as part of the wider Youth Engagement team. My main role was to provide support across the team's core functions - primarily by supporting young people to participate in volunteering opportunities and supporting the facilitation and co-ordination of engagement events and projects.

Buddy is a digital tool to support therapy services. Clients use text messaging to keep a daily diary of what they are doing and how they are feeling, helping to spot and reinforce positive behaviours. It also allows users to set goals, create session plans and acts as an SMS appointment reminder service and receive care remotely through live text chat.In my role as Client Director I look after a number of NHS trusts as well as third and private sector organisations and individual private sector therapists who use Buddy up and down the country, providing in-depth training and supporting teams to embed Buddy within their services.I am Project Lead on a range of our NHS projects and also support the CEO around procurement which has given me extensive experience of bid writing, grant applications, marketing and building successful working relationships with other organisations.Other work involves bringing new sales into the organisation and to date I have successfully engaged with a number of organisations to secure business for Buddy Enterprises Ltd.Day to day work includes running our corporate social media accounts, answering enquiries from our partners, front line staff and the general public, creating interesting content such as monthly newsletters for Buddy supporters and assisting with development of new tools and features including UX, UI and bug testing. I also represent Buddy at public events such as conferences, workshops, roundtable events and in the media having given several interviews and made short videos on Buddy.

I worked with YouthNet (now TheMix) on an ad-hoc basis, providing support, training and facilitation to the team.My main role was to facilitate YouthNet's TheSite.org SupportChat on a monthly basis. We took this opportunity to provide advice and support to young people experiencing mental health issues and an open space to ask questions without judgment.On occasion I ran specialist online workshops on pre-determined topics such as crisis management or for wider engagement work (for example running an online focus group for the NHS England Call to Action consultation).I have also facilitated a workshop for TheSite.org Leaders around mental health and relationships in preparation for the launch of the Innovation Labs project "Madly In Love": http://www.madlyinlove.org.uk/

Working for NHS England (London region) as part of the myhealthlondon team I worked on a variety of projects including continuing as Project Manager for the WellHappy app while on secondment from the youth mental health charity YoungMinds.Through my work on the WellHappy project I spend a lot of time working with young people from every corner of London both to improve the app and raise awareness of the issues it seeks to address. I ran regular workshops with young people, facilitated web chats and went into schools to talk about the app and in particular mental health and emotional wellbeing.I also represented the WellHappy app at events including conferences, networking events, committees and during press interviews. This often included presenting to large groups of people as well as running information stalls and workshops for young people and professionals. I represented WellHappy at CHaT meetings (Collaborative on Health and Technology) and represented myhealthlondon on the Pan-London Healthwatch Board hosted by NHS England. As well as working on the app and other projects in digital innovation I also co-ordinated engagement with a particular focus on youth engagement. One example involved facilitating a range of on and offline workshops for young people around the NHS Call to Action. My role also involved providing bespoke social media training to staff within the NHS and London Healthwatch members.

Working for YoungMinds on secondment to NHS England (London Region)/myhealthlondon. I worked in partnership with a range of organisations to develop a wellbeing app for young people.I was the project manager for the development of the WellHappy app which is a free health app for young people age 12-25 in London. It focuses on mental health, sex, relationships and substance misuse and signposts young people to local services as well as providing them with information along the way.The WellHappy app was launched at the Healthcare Innovation Expo 2013 in London with a further event hosted by the GLA Peer Outreach Team at City Hall. The app launch was supported by Joss Stone, Joe Swash, Sadie Frost and Ralph Little.You can find out more about the app and it's functions here: https://www.myhealth.london.nhs.uk/health-communities/young-peopleI have also been involved with YoungMinds in a consultancy role, including:-Expert Reference Group and Young Person's panel member on HeadMeds- Co-wrote the Teenagers Technology and Mental Health training program

I was a member of the YoungMinds VIK participation project representing young people across the country and advising the organisation on policy and campaign objectives. My work involved a number of roles and responsibilities which evolved over the course of the project including- Producing and delivering presentations to service users, professionals and other stakeholders including media partners, schools and politicians - Managing the social media accounts for the project including producing online content and monitoring engagement- Completed internal training to facilitate workshops for both young people and adults including fellow young activists, parents and professionals - Regularly invited to speak at local, national and international conferences to represent young people's views and lived experience of mental health issues and services - Helped co-produce the YoungMinds manifesto which helped secure Big Lottery Funding for the VIK project- Participated in the YoungMinds VIK film to accompany the organisations manifesto- Judge for the Young Minds book awards 2009- Involved in multimedia projects including at the Hayward Gallery- Part of the NAC reference group-helped to inform on New Horizons and the new mental health strategy- Co-directed, wrote and starred in a film about stigma with the VIK project- Helping to develop a peer mentoring scheme within the organisation- Helped with policy and campaigns work on a wide scale of issues affecting young people- Featured in a DVD for frontline staff on assessing young people- Involved with the Royal College Of Psychiatrists assessing the curriculum of trainee psychiatrists- Facilitated meetings around the CYPIAPT project

As part of my role as young advisor i help the Royal College of Psychiatrists CCQI program in improving services for young people both in community and inpatient settings based on my own lived experience and the experiences of my peers.This involves quarterly meetings for both QNIC and QNCC, being consulted on and helping to write College policy and attending and presenting at events for professionals.I am also trained to assess both community and inpatient CAMHS providers for accreditation according to QNIC and QNCC standards and have been involved in several assessments of adolescent inpatient units.I have also given talks to the College including a presentation on Transitions between CAMHS and AMHS in 2010.Alongside this i have also separately worked on a project with YoungMinds to review the curriculum of trainee psychiatrists. You can read about this here:http://www.youngminds.org.uk/news/blog/524_why_we_need_to_change_the_undergraduate_psychiatry_curriculum

Young advisor for CERNIS on a freelance basis.I was involved in a project with Yvonne Anderson to help map eating disorder services in the Northwest of the UK and helped research service user experience of local wards and inpatient units for a private health company.

Caring for children with complex physical needs in their homes. As a health care support worker i helped to support the clinical and day to day needs of young children with complex and severe physical health problems to help them stay with their families in the community.I received full training in safeguarding, protection of vulnerable adults, basic life support training and first aid training for all ages and specific training around the conditions affecting the children in my care.In the last package that i worked in i was also given introductory training in Makaton as the child i was caring for also had communication difficulties and helped train new members of staff.The job required a high level of clinical competence, team working skills, self motivation as well as the ability to work within highly challenging situations.

Part of the National Advisory Council's reference group advising on mental health policy including the New Horizons strategy and "No health without mental health". I attended regular meetings with senior staff and helped other service users to participate.