Amber Hemingway
Tullimbar,NSW
Summary
Compassionate individual with a strong dedication to helping individuals in need of support. Skilled in providing patient-centered care and evidence-based interventions. Possesses deep understanding of mental health and behavioural sciences with ability to utilise knowledge to assist individuals in managing challenges. Successful at building immediate rapport with individuals and establishing long-term relationships built on trust, quality care and knowledgeable service.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
10.2021 - 06.2023
- Clinically asses clients needs and goals by conducting patient-centred interviews and psychometric testing.
- Determine a suitable treatment plan for the client dependant on their personal circumstances, goals and outcome of the clinical assessment.
- Signpost clients to other suitable support services whilst awaiting therapy.
- Undertake thorough risk assessments with the client to determine risk to self and others.
- Taking the clients goals and needs into consideration, provide low intensity Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (LI-CBT) for clients presenting with symptoms suggestive of mental health conditions such as generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), social anxiety, health anxiety, panic disorder, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
- Run group therapy sessions and workshops, both face to face and via Microsoft teams.
- Liaise and collaborate with other professionals and organisations regularly.
- Attend clinical supervision on a regular basis.
- Take and record thorough clinical notes.
- Perform administrative duties such as writing letters and emails, making and answering telephone calls, printing resources.
- Be extremely well organised with a high caseload of both assessment and treatment clients.
Clinical Research Officer
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
08.2015 - 05.2020
- Set up and support the delivery of clinical research within the Trust.
- Ensure that all research governance is in place and adhered to.
- Assess study feasibility, recruit participants, assess mental capacity of participants, take consent, collect and input data, undertake psychometric and cognitive assessments, undertake research interviews with clients.
- Worked with principal investigator and sponsors to facilitate daily trial activities and comply with research protocols.
- Contributed to the successful completion of research studies by proactively resolving issues, mitigating risks, and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Attend and run group sessions with service users.
- Develop and maintain good working relationships with other professionals including stakeholders, researchers and clinicians.
- Present and promote research to large groups of stakeholders and clinicians.
- Work closely with service users, families and carers from the beginning to the end on research projects.
- Build and maintain a good rapport with research participants.
- Perform administrative duties such as writing letters and emails, making and answering telephone calls, printing research forms, entering data and clinical notes into the clinical record system and other databases.
Clinical Research Administrator
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
11.2014 - 08.2015
- Support the Clinical Research Team within the wider Clinical Research Office, including colleagues, researchers and patients who sat on the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) panels.
- Arrange and run the meetings between the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) panels and the Researchers.
- Advertising panel member vacancies, setting up new patient panels and performing general administrative tasks including, but not limited to, booking meeting rooms, arranging catering, processing expenses, managing emails, making and answering telephone calls and taking meeting minutes.
- Arrange and co-ordinate the patient and public training days and research events within the Trust.
MDT Administrator
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
05.2014 - 11.2014
- Provide support to all members of the Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT).
- Prepare and organise the MDT meetings, ensuring that all materials required for the meeting such as radiology scans and reports, pathology reports and appropriate notes and letters were available.
- Attend MDT meetings to support, report and type up the meeting minutes.
- Track the hospital trust cancer patients against the National Cancer Waiting Times Standards, ensuring that patients were referred to a consultant in a timely manner and that any investigations or treatment required was administered efficiently.
- Carefully monitor patient pathways and maintain and update accurate records.
- Maintained database systems to track and analyse operational data.
- Perform general administrative duties including liaising with medical professionals and other healthcare establishments, filing, faxing, communicating via email, making and answering telephone calls and data inputting.
Education
Postgraduate qualification in Low Intensity Psychological Interventions - Enhanced -
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, England02.2023
Master of Science Degree in Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience -
Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield, England09.2014
Bachelor of Science in Psychology (with Honours) -
Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield, England07.2013
A-Levels in Law, Sociology and Psychology -
Wakefield College
Wakefield, England06.2010
GCSE's in Mathematics, English Literature, English Language, Physics, Chemistry, Physical Education and Art and Design Textiles. -
Crofton High School
Wakefield, England07.2007
Skills
- Low intensity Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Organisational and Time Management Skills
- Analytical skills
- Problem solving
- Documentation
- Microsoft Office
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Research
- Team Working
- Data entry and use of multiple databases
- Psychometric and Cognitive Assessments
- Patient interviewing
- Multitasking Abilities
Timeline
Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
10.2021 - 06.2023
Clinical Research Officer
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
08.2015 - 05.2020
Clinical Research Administrator
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
11.2014 - 08.2015
MDT Administrator
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
05.2014 - 11.2014
Postgraduate qualification in Low Intensity Psychological Interventions - Enhanced -
University of Sheffield
Master of Science Degree in Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience -
Sheffield Hallam University
Bachelor of Science in Psychology (with Honours) -
Sheffield Hallam University
A-Levels in Law, Sociology and Psychology -
Wakefield College
GCSE's in Mathematics, English Literature, English Language, Physics, Chemistry, Physical Education and Art and Design Textiles. -
Crofton High School
Eligible To Work In Australia
Yes (permanent resident)
Eligible To Work In Australia
Yes (permanent resident)
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