Vicky W. Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Canada Area

Strategic direction and planningStrategic partnership managementFinancial and Operational ManagementPartnership & Stakeholder ManagementManaging and growing the organization’s visionBusiness plan developmentPerformance metricsContract negotiations and managementDesign, and implementation of clinical programmingPolicy and procedure development and implementationKnowledge transferTalent Management – responsible for recruitment and training of professionalsDevelopment of grant proposalsResearch and development Clinical supervision & training

British Columbia, Canada

Supervisory/Management role for a team of 10

London, United Kingdom

Privately Contracted drug and alcohol interventions – Intense 1:1 motivational interviewing working with client ambivalence; identifying ‘stage of change'​ ; identifying and working with non-adherence & psychological resistance. Employed a number of cognitive behavioural models as part of my work e.g. Prochaska ‘stages of change'​ ‘social interactionism'​ & ‘social learning'. The role involved liasing with and coordinating with family members to ensure effective interventions

Essex, United Kingdom

Program development/implementation of counselling program through identification of industry gold standards and professional college guidelines. Arranged multidisciplinary advisory groups; initiated data analyses plans; developed multidisciplinary concurrent programming such as screening forco-occurring disorders; developed educational workshops. Scheduled staff and arranged/conducted supervision. Engaged clients in psychological screeners/assessments and developed superior treatment plans. 1:1 counselling as well as group counselling. Conducted clinical assessments/reports identifying potential Axis I & II disorders for multidisciplinary case conferences with psychiatrists. The role required a superior understanding of the addiction pharmacology and co-pharmacology.

Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Evaluated existing health outcome policies and made recommendations. Defined project deliverables and monitored status of tasks. Drafted action plans and led meetings with department executives to review project status and proposed changes. Delivered status reports to stakeholders for budgeting and planning purposes. Conducted SPSS data analysis, literature research, data collection, interviews and surveys with both vulnerable families & children, and health professionals, data coding, statistical analysis (both qualitative and quantitative). Dissemination of reports for clients. Applied expertise in knowledge of psychological theory and measurement. KMHO - Health Outcomes contracts involving literature reviews and evaluative research for large pharmaceutical companies. Evaluated and reported on the psychometric properties of Patient Reported Outcomes measures. Data interrogation of 2000+ medical journals, identifying patientburden and quality of life in Crohn's Disease and presenting findings in a formal report.

Certification, Clinical Supervision, Passed

professional clinical supervision certificate

Master’S Degree, Msc Clinical Psychology, Honours - Magna Cum Laude

- MSc Honours - Magna Cum Laude - Stage 1 Professional Health Psychology training: Doctorate of Psychology (DPsych) - Specialist subjects.

Bachelor’S Degree, Bsc Psychology, Honours - Summa Cum Laude

BSc in Psychology Hons First Class with Honours (Summa Cum Laude) (British Psych. Soc. Accreditation) University of Luton, UK Thesis.