Mental health advisor - University of Bath
(2026-03)
Mental health advisor - The University of Chester
(2025-01 - 2026-01)
Mental health practitioner - The University of Wrexham
(2024-01 - 2025-01)
Mental health advisor - The University of Hull
(2022-01 - 2024-01)
Remote working my role entailed providing individual support to students experiencing mental health distress. My responsibilities included mental health triage, risk assessment, signposting, Mental health and wellbeing, anxiety management techniques, safety planning, and referrals to internal and external services. Delivering follow-up care, manage complex cases, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, including GPs and NHS services.
The role involved maintaining confidentiality, accurate record-keeping, and working with students to promote self-help. Offered CBT and advise around wellbeing. Utilising GAD 7 and PHQ 9 ass measuring tools to assess level of anxiety and depression.
Wellbeing mental health practitioner - Bipolar lift - Nottingham
(2017-09 - 2022-01)
Assessing individuals with Bipolar disorder. Utilising low intensity CBT, Solution Focus and a Person-Centred Approach. Working with individuals empowering them to understand their illness, looking at coping strategies, strengths, weakness, support network, meds compliant, psycho social education, welfare rights, PIP, accommodation advice.
Working with individuals holistically, mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally. Offering information and guidance on mindfulness, nutrition, sleep hygiene, safeguarding and signposting. My role also assists those suffering from social inclusion by facilitating day trips, boat rides, walking group and monthly events.
Specialist Student Mental Health Advisor - HE Wellbeing - Nottingham
(2016-10 - 2017-08)
- To facilitate and deliver mental health support to students, including those in crisis, to help them realise their potential during their time at University
- To provide expert advice, support, problem-solving and a resource for University staff as a referral point for students presenting with mental health issues to include the development and maintenance of appropriate Mental Ill Health emergency response protocols
- To promote and market the service effectively, focusing on the student experience reflected in the 'settle, stay, succeed'
- To take a lead role in maintaining and developing appropriate referral and sign-posting relationships, both internally and externally, on behalf of the service
- To work with the Head of Student Wellbeing and team colleagues to deliver a high-quality customer-focused service, in line with corporate and departmental objectives
- To develop and deliver a range of wellbeing initiatives for students, facilitating networks addressing issues such as student isolation, stress, anxiety and depression
- To work closely with the Student Wellbeing colleagues to ensure a holistic approach for students who have disclosed a mental health disability, raising awareness of the support available to them to enable full engagement with all aspects of university life
Safeguarding Social Worker - Nottingham City Council - Bulwell Riverside
(2015-06 - 2016-09)
- Safeguarding vulnerable adults by reducing or, ideally, preventing the risk of significant harm from abuse and exploitation
- Simultaneously supporting people to take control of their own lives by making informed choices
- Supported clients to make their own decisions based on the best possible information
- Worked with prevention model prevention to prevent harm that occurred whilst working within Proportionality - what we do should be proportionate to the risk: we don't want to be over-protective if the risk is low, as this in itself can disadvantage people and deprive of them of the opportunity to make their own decision
- Protected those in greatest need require our support and protection
- Worked closely with Multi Agencies
Hospital Social Worker - Sturdree Community Hospital
(2014-05 - 2015-06)
Inmind Healthcare Group - Sturdree Community Hospital (Private psychiatric locked rehabilitation unit) Role involves working in a multi disciplinary team compiling Tribunal reports and attending tribunal As a Safeguarding lead took lead with all safeguarding investigations regarding patients & staff.
- CPA, risk assessments, benefit work
- Discharge meeting 117 Aftercare meetings, Section 17 meetings
- Liaising with family and carers, authorising visitors for patients, liaising with other agencies such as probation, police, community mental health teams & Amps, housing, child protection and the ministry of justice depending upon the mental health status of patients
- Ward rounds, participated on weekly and weekend on call service
- Conduct Mental Health capacity assessments & deprivation of liberty assessments
Creative Writer Analyst - Brits Writers Awards
(2011-11 - 2014-03)
- Critiquing fictional non published short stories
- Analysing, assessing & appraising textual commentaries on short stories
- The aim of the role was to establish a forum for fourth coming writers to achieve their potential and submit work for the competition
- Acted as a judge for the various age brackets
- The end result was to work towards the ultimate British Writers Awards. The winner had their work published.
Psychiatric Social Worker - The Stonebridge Centre
(2008-03 - 2011-10)
- Case management Assessment - clarification of client's needs and strengths
- Planning - the development of a plan i.e care programme approach (CPA) with clear specific outcomes
- Implementation - with the involvement of users, their relevant supporters and a chosen range of appropriate agencies to meet the various needs identified
- Monitoring - progress and/or lack of progress towards the specified objectives it was systematically monitored and recorded
- Reviewing - outcomes of the planned interventions evaluating with all those involved in the work, which took the form of reassessment and to introduce a restart of the cycle
- Held a comprehensive client-based list of adults suffering with enduring mental health issues
- Utilised the person-centred approach and needs led assessment in her work
- Maintained concise running written records
- Compiled tribunal reports and attended the tribunal hearing
- Conducted complex assessments and risk assessments, utilising the Mental Health Act 1983, Sec.117 Aftercare for discharged clients, thus putting into practice the Code of Practice for the Mental Health Act, Community Care Act 1990, Human Rights Act and ensuring that client confidentiality was paramount adhering to the Equal Opportunities and the Anti-Discriminatory Policy
- Client Management - Work involved regular home visits referring clients to the appropriate agencies offering emotional and practical support
- Ensured that clients had the opportunities and resources to improve and alleviate mental health issues and manage its symptoms to improve the quality of their lives
- Weekly on call service to clients at risk of self harming, suicide, managing medication enquiries, housing issues and generally all enquiries relating to mental health difficulties
- Mentoring students - assisted students to complete their competences with evidence based information and observation and to ultimately ensure that students could demonstrate putting theory into practice in a safe and professional manner ensuring client confidentiality
Psychiatric Social Worker - The Mandala Centre, Rosebury House, The Amity Day Centre
(2001-01 - 2008-01)
Worked for various institutions including Stonebridge Centre, The Mandala Centre, Rosebury House, The Amity Day Centre
