Melody Spalding Email & Phone Number

Tunstall, England, United Kingdom

Band 5 Clinical Pathways AP in Adult CMHT at the based at the Greenfields Centre. Working across all four Adult CMHTs in the Trust supporting the development of new Clinical Pathways.Developing and delivering a new Compassion Focused Therapy group.

Blurton

Community CAMHS at Blurton Health Centre.

Essex, England, United Kingdom

Southend, Essex and Thurrock (SET) CAMHS based at Thundersly Clinic.Assisted clinicians with initial assessments and psychological interventions with young people presenting with complex difficulties.Administered neuropsychological assessments and assisted with interpretation of results. Delivered low-level psychological intervention to young people. Assisted in the formulation and delivery of care plans.Attended and contributed to multidisciplinary teams and represented CAMHS in team around the family (TAF) meetings. Conducted school observations and presented written reports.Assisted with an audit involving data collection, analysis, and reporting of findings and presented this to the team. Applied psychological theory to practice. Received weekly supervision with a Trainee Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Psychologist. Presented written reports to the team. Facilitated and co-facilitated therapeutic groups for service-users. Assisted with a literature review for service-development. Fulfilled the role of Routine Outcome Measures (ROMs) champion. Documented sessions/assessments using ‘SystmOne’.Liaised with external services to ensure collaborative working.Lead a participation group to help shape the service including projects and training with young people.

Alsager, England, United Kingdom

Supporting children with ASD, ADHD, and learning difficulties. Utilising interventions with children 1-1, and in groups. Also supporting the well-being of children without EHCPs.

Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom

Worked a split-placement within the inpatient psychological services team at Basildon.• Shadowed Clinical Psychologists with psychological therapies and psychological assessments.• Co-facilitated groups on the wards with Assistant Psychologists involving DBT skills.• Co-facilitated a research project - ‘EssenCES’.• Created quarterly reports, involving data entry and analysis of the referrals, psychology group data and group attendance.• Attended weekly referral meetings.• Attended training such as Personality Disorder and Self Harm Training and ACT4NHS.

Rochford, England, United Kingdom

Worked in a split-placement with this element working within an Early Intervention for Psychosis team in Rochford working with people who experience their first episode of psychosis.• Undertook a service evaluation project to co-facilitate a Hearing Voices Group with a Clinical Psychologist.• Produced a Hearing Voices Group project evaluation which was used in the service as an effective evaluative project.• Attended weekly multidisciplinary team meetings.• Attended weekly clinical supervision with a Clinical Psychologist, including the discussion of psychological therapies.• Data entry involving service-user questionnaires (QPR and Dialogue) on excel spreadsheets.• Assisting care coordinators on their visits with service users.

Master Of Science - Ms, Foundations Of Clinical Psychology, Distinction

Modules studied: Psychological Research Methods Applied Psychology Placement Clinical Psychology: Science and Experience Introduction.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Psychology With Criminology

First Class Honours in BSc (Hons) Psychology with Criminology. Modules studied include: Language, Culture and Mind, Foundations.

A Level, Psychology, Sociology And Forensic Science, A, B, Distinction*