Sidney Davies Email and Phone Number

Community mental health practitioner in Supported Independent Living (SIL) and Youth Residential Rehabilitation (YRR) residential services across Melbourne. Responsibilities include: working with participants to achieve their goals as set out within their NDIS plan, supporting participants to understand and manage their own mental health, planning and developing work programs that will build participants’ skills, building relationships and referral pathways to local supports, contributing to the day to day operations of the residential service, and utilising techniques such as brief intervention, motivational interviewing and coaching, person centred strengths based practice, trauma informed practice, family inclusive practice, conflict resolution and more.

Clinical placement in the La Trobe Psychology Clinic.

Responsibilities include: teach clients using techniques based on the principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis, implement behaviour treatment, provide high levels of reinforcement and motivation to clients, monitor and ensure safety and wellbeing of clients, be part of a team responsible for managing the client’s therapy, participate in staff meetings to review client’s progress, and implement programming in a range of areas including: social interaction, communication, language, functional living skills, academic skills, self-help skills, gross and fine motor skills, behavioural management.

Research assistant for Dr. Marjolein Kammers’s M-HELP Project.Responsibilities include: assisting in the development of a research question, contributing to weekly team meetings, providing an overview of literature available on the topic of mental health/wellbeing and the miscarriage experience, compiling findings, and contributing to the development and submission of a literature review paper.

Responsibilities included: booking client sessions, scanning and filing, obtaining copies of Mental Health Care Plans, liaising with GPs, getting payments and performing Medicare rebates, organising NDIS service agreements, and effectively communicating with both clients and psychologists.

Responsibilities included: conducting first home visits, documenting face-to- face interviews with both parents and children, updating client files on the CRIS system, answering phones, photocopying, transporting children, accompanying clients to appointments, supervising contact visits, communicating effectively with children, parents, and carers, and applying for documents (e.g. original birth certificates).