Helen O'Connor Email & Phone Number

London Borough Of Redbridge

London Borough Of Redbridge, England, United Kingdom

Service manager across Via's services in Redbridge: privileged to work alongside key local partners and stakeholders, passionate and committed colleagues, volunteers and peer mentors, to support the health, wellbeing and outcomes for people connected to Redbridge. - Adult Drug and Alcohol (R3)- Young People Drug and Alcohol (Fusion)- Young People Sexual Health (Bewize)- Rough Sleeper and Outreach- Smoking Cessation (Redbridge Quits Smoking)

London, England, United Kingdom

London

Service Manager for a fully integrated substance misuse service, in the London Borough of Merton. Our team includes doctor, NMP, nurses, recovery practitioners, apprentices, volunteers and peer mentors. They deliver prescribing, detoxification, group and individual psychosocial interventions, counselling, complimentary therapies, BBV testing and treatment, needle exchange, harm reduction advice including Naloxone, ETE activities, SMART Recovery, outreach and satellites, onward referral and signposting, as well as delivering training to external stakeholders.Our service users can access the award-winning WDP Capital Card®, a Local Authority-approved scheme that rewards and incentivises engagement through a simple earn-spend points system.

Merton, Greater London, United Kingdom

Interim Team Leader April-July 2018 at transition from previous service provider to WDP. As Quality Lead for Merton I was responsible for developing and maintaining a high standard across case management processes, enhancing engagement from referral through to treatment completion, information governance, building individual practitioner skills in group and one to one contexts, and contributing to improved outcomes and accurate reporting.I was directly involved in preparing for our CQC inspection, leading on developing and monitoring an action plan that would showcase our achievements and demonstrate the high standard of professionalism we aspire to throughout the service.

Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Applied Practice: Using cognitive-behavioural techniques to help individuals and groups with issues relating to:- Supporting health behaviour change, including reducing or quitting alcohol, stopping smoking, being more active. - Confidential, non-judgemental advice to people who use image enhancing drugs, such as anabolic steroids (eg, safer injecting, harm minimisation) and support to reduce or stop use if wanted. - Co-created with Club Soda, the online course ‘sober sprint’ which helps people, though daily email content and an online community, take a break from alcohol. Nearly 1000 people have taken the course.Academic: - Research Assistant for Staffordshire University on a project that applied rational emotive behaviour therapy to support students with exam and assessment pressure/anxiety (past).- External PhD Adviser, Staffordshire University (current)- HPL Brunel University (past)- Approved supervisor for BPS Stage 2 qualification in sport and exercise psychology.

MSc Sport and Exercise Psychology (BPS Stage 1 accredited) for academic year 2017-2018Module leader - Psychology of exercise, health and well-beingModule leader - Social and cognitive processes in performanceResearch project supervisorContributing lecturer - Applied sport and exercise psychology (motivational interviewing, REBT)Contributing lecturer - Level 6 Psychology (optional module in Sport & Exercise Psychology)

CDARS (as 'Engage Merton') worked in partnership with South West London and St George's Mental Health to provide medical and psychosocial addiction and substance use support, in the London Borough of Merton. - Co-facilitator of men's and women's 'Preparation for Change' groups (for those preparing for inpatient or community alcohol detox). - Developed and facilitated an Alcohol Reduction Group - a psycho-educational group for drinkers who are not physically dependent on alcohol but who want to reduce their alcohol intake to safer levels. The group draws upon a relapse-prevention model of behavioural maintenance and follows NICE guidelines for behaviour change interventions. - Launched and co-facilitated a SMART Recovery group, utilising MET and REBT principles- Established a Big Lottery Funded service to provide individual, tailored smoking-cessation advice and support, based on best-practice guidelines from the Turning Point/SLAM smoking cessation pilot.- Working with clients on an individual basis, including those with complex mental health needs.- Developing Tamil language literature and resources to help those in the Tamil community in the borough who have alcohol problems. - Data management of the alcohol team data. Speaking to external organisations.

I worked for this health improvement service in the boroughs of Sutton and Merton, first through St Mary's University, and later with Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust (HRCH). Brief contact (1-6 session) psychological support using motivational interviewing and cognitive-behavioural techniques to help people set and achieve meaningful health goals and actions plans related to: improved nutrition, increased physical activity, reduced alcohol consumption, stress management, managing long-term health conditions, and smoking cessation.

London, United Kingdom

The UKIF provides business people who run, or who wish to build, businesses that use leading edge technology, access to the innovative technology produced by British universities and research institutions. My chief role responsibility was the delivery of innovation and partnering events across a range of technology themes including: big data analytics, sensors and detectors in healthcare, robotics and autonomous systems, training and simulation, nanotechnology, financial engineering, and food and beverages.

Infonet Aquisition

Stage 2 Qualification In Sport & Exercise Psychology (Qsep), Sport And Exercise Psychology, Chartered Psychologist

An independent pathway to obtain chartered status as a psychologist in the UK. Comprising approximately 4500 hours across four.

Level 7 Systems Thinking Practitioner

Msc, Sport And Performance Psychology, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Student RepresentativeResearch Thesis: Performance Enhancing Drug Use in Professional Sport: A Qualitative.

Conversion Diploma, Psychology

Research Thesis: Extending the Theory of Planned Behaviour: The Role of Past Behaviour and Self-Reported Planning in Predicting Physical.

Ba (Hons), Literary Studies, Upper Second