Natasha Denise Stanley Kumar
Sandy Bay,Tas
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Allied Health Professional (Social Worker)
Tasmanian Health Service, Pulse Youth Health Service
06.2022 - Current
- Work with young people, particularly those who are disadvantaged or at risk of being disadvantaged by their personal, social and/or economic circumstances
- Provide assessment, early intervention, client advocacy, brief interventions, counselling, group facilitation, appropriate referral, and case conferencing for young people on a range of health and wellbeing issues
- Maintain a high standard of client and other documentation and data collection
- Work as a member of a multidisciplinary team and collaboratively with other professionals, agencies, and community groups
- Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of health and wellbeing programs, promotions and group activities focused on the needs of young people
- Participate in continuous quality improvement programs and contribute to strategic planning activities
- Contribute to the development and review of the philosophy, objectives, policies, and procedures of the Service
- Assume a supervisory role for students and beginning level practitioners.
- Attended to higher duties when requested
Senior Residential Worker
Colony47, Colville Place
07.2021 - 06.2022
- Case management, Delivery of a case management approach for young people to enable them to achieve their goals and to look for housing outcomes.
- Liaising with other Colony 47 services, making referrals and connections with external support providers and services.
- Support the identification and achievement of young people’s goals, foster a focus on health and wellbeing, enable the development of daily living skills of young people.
- Manage diverse house dynamics, provide solutions-focused counselling, support the establishment of re-connections with positive family and social networks and participate in the development and delivery of recreational activities
- Provide support, mentoring and an escalation point for other staff; Supporting the Youth Housing Coordinator to achieve compliance with funding agreements and legislative requirements, data collation and reporting to enable impact measurement; Building and maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders to seek the best outcomes for young people; and Ensuring compliance with WH&S and quality legislation.
Residential Youth Coach (Day)
Colony47, Colville Place
02.2021 - 06.2021
- Case management, liaising with other Colony 47 services, making referrals and connections with external support providers and services.
- Support the identification and achievement of young people’s goals, foster a focus on health and wellbeing, enable the development of daily living skills of young people, manage diverse house dynamics.
- Provide solutions-focused counselling, support the establishment of re-connections with positive family and social networks and participate in the development and delivery of recreational activities.
Residential Response Worker
Colony47, Mara House
07.2020 - 02.2021
- Support identification and achievement of young people’s goals, foster a focus on health and wellbeing, enable the development of daily living skills of the residents
- Manage diverse house dynamics and appropriately respond to the behaviours of young people.
- Provide solutions-focused counselling, support the establishment of re-connections with positive family and social network.
- Participate in the development and delivery of recreational activities.
- Support residents to engage with education and training opportunitues
- Documentation
Social Work Associate, Shift Supervisor
HCSA Dayspring Residential Treatment Centre
01.2017 - 02.2018
- Residential care, case management and staff supervision.
- Shift management and responding to crisis situations.
- Documentation (monitoring and recording residents’ behaviours, tracking interventions, preparing incident reports when necessary)
- Attending treatment meetings and facilitate meetings with residents.
- Youth mentor supervision and training (Direct, manage and evaluate staff on shift, delegating responsibilities, training new staff)
Social Work Associate, Youth Mentor
HCSA Dayspring Residential Treatment Centre
06.2015 - 12.2016
- Resident supervision, management and mentoring
- Ensuring a therapeutic environment, Shift management (executing daily schedules and activities, enforcing house rules, handling crisis situations, monitoring approved outings and home-leaves for residents, monitoring an carrying out consequences when necessary)
- Health and medical assistance (dispensing medication, maintaining an updated record of the residents’ medication, medical concerns and hospitalization, and support to appointments)
- Attending care team meetings
Education
Masters - Professional Psychology
La Trobe University
Melbourne, VIC2024
Masters - Social Work
University of Tasmania
Hobart, TAS12.2019
Bachelor’s Degree - Psychology With Honours
James Cook University
Singapore04.2015
Skills
- Flexible and Adaptable
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Interpersonal communication and skills
- Extensive experience working with Youths with complex trauma and other mental health complexities
- Active Listening
- Ability to work under fast paced and stressful environments
- Analytical and Critical Thinking
- Dependable and Responsible
- Organization and Time Management
Placements
The Crawley Clinic - MPP Placement
Hobart, TAS
02/2024 - current (expected completion 07/2024)
· Intake assessments
· Ongoing therapy sessions utilising CBT, ACT and DBT skills and knowledge
· Documentation
· Training, observation and assisting with adult ADHD assessment and follow up
CanTeen - Social Work Placement
Hobart, TAS
07/2019 - 10/2019
· Identifying risks and needs of young people affected by cancer.
· Conducted reviews/interviews with young people engaged with the service.
· Documentation of emails, phone calls and client contact
· Referrals to external services
· Assisted with the planning and delivering of groupwork or programs.
Clarence City Council/Tasmanian Health Service - Social Work Placement
Hobart, TAS
07/2018 - 10/2018
· Assisted with the planning of events, such as mental health week and other community events.
· Liaising with external services
· Assisted supervisor with Health promotion and Health literacy workshops.
Course/Training undertaken
- March 2017 - Engaging Reluctant Adolescents Effectively
- 26 – 26 September 2017 - Coaching and Mentoring Youths Effectively
- 26 – 27 October 2017 - Non-Trauma Systems Therapy Clinical Training
- 7 – 8 November 2017 - 2 days Trauma Systems Therapy Training
- 23 July 2018 - Webinar on Borderline Personality Disorder in Youths and Early Intervention
- 26 July 2018 - Building Health Promotion and Practice Partnership Workshop
- 3 August 2018 - Health Literacy Workshop
- 13, 20 August 2018 - FUTI Training (Domestic Violence First Responder Training)
- 29 July 2019 - Grief and Loss workshop (Palliative care Tasmania)
- 02- 03 September 2019 - Domestic Violence Alert Multicultural training
- 30 September - 01 October 2019 - ASIST Suicide intervention training
- 15 October 2019 - Atkinson child care College: Identify and respond to children and young people at risk
- 28 - 29 September 2020 - Trauma Informed Practice Training
- 30 September – 01 October 2020 - Youth Mental Health First Aid Training
- June 2022 – October 2022 - ACT for depression and anxiety via psychwire (Russ Harris)
- 28 October 2022 - Connecting with People Training
- May 2024 - Adult ADHD assessment training
- June 2024 - Single Session Thinking training
- September 2024 - DBT skills training via Psychwire
Additional Information
Provisional psychology Registration
Registration number: PSY0002702405
Expiry: 12/02/2025
Working with Vulnerable People Check
Expiry: 28/03/2026
Permanent resident of Australia
Commenced:19/08/2022.
Able to work in Australia indefinitely
References
Charlotte White
MPP placement supervisor - Crawley Clinic
Mobile: 0407 338 456
Email: psych.cwhite@gmail.com
Fiona Savory
Manager, Pulse Youth Health Service (THS)
Mobile: 0419 569 493
E-mail: fiona.savory@ths.tas.gov.au
Grace Duggan
Clinical Lead, Pulse Youth Health Service (THS)
Mobile: 0447 734 259
E-mail: grace.duggan@ths.tas.gov.au
Timeline
Allied Health Professional (Social Worker)
Tasmanian Health Service, Pulse Youth Health Service
06.2022 - Current
Senior Residential Worker
Colony47, Colville Place
07.2021 - 06.2022
Residential Youth Coach (Day)
Colony47, Colville Place
02.2021 - 06.2021
Residential Response Worker
Colony47, Mara House
07.2020 - 02.2021
Social Work Associate, Shift Supervisor
HCSA Dayspring Residential Treatment Centre
01.2017 - 02.2018
Social Work Associate, Youth Mentor
HCSA Dayspring Residential Treatment Centre
06.2015 - 12.2016
Masters - Professional Psychology
La Trobe University
Masters - Social Work
University of Tasmania
Bachelor’s Degree - Psychology With Honours
James Cook University
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