Sheran Kay

Post Discharge Team (HOPE/ENGAGE)

• Providing clinical leadership and development of clients who are at risk of suicide following discharge from acute services.
• Supporting Manager with operational responsibilities, meetings, recruitment, policy development, training resources.
• Building community partnerships, providing education sessions to colleagues as well as within service
• Providing supervision and mentoring
• Conducting comprehensive psychological assessments, risk formulations, as well as providing brief, evidence-based therapeutic interventions to clients and their supports who have recently attempted suicide or who present with elevated suicide risk.
• Working within evidence based suicide prevention frameworks (e.g. Pisani risk formulation, CAMS).
• Triaging and screening appropriate referrals within IWAMHS
  • Receiving, screening, and allocating referrals (e.g. CL Psychiatry, GP, private supports, Emergency Mental Health, ACIS teams).
• Supporting team members following different models of care (e.g. Psychosocial workers, peer support workers, carer peer support workers)
• Providing secondary consultation to and supporting skills development with HOPE staff in the delivery of evidence-based psychological interventions (e.ACT, CBT, DBT).
• Contributing to service evaluation (e.g. QA project)

• Working with clients presenting with a range of chronic and acute mental health conditions and their carers/supports using a collaborative, client centered approach.
• Conducting clinical mental health assessments, risk assessments, diagnostic clarification, and providing evidence based individual psychological treatment to adults (e.g. GPM, ACT, CBT, DBT, Schema Focused therapy). This occurred in both clinic and crisis-based/acute mental health settings.
• providing group based interventions (e.g. recovery ACT for psychosis, Wise Choices for BPD, anxiety groups, single session family consultation)
• identifying individual recovery goals and working with relevant stakeholders (NDIS, AOD services, GP, private supports, family's)
• Knowledge of relevant legislation, practice frameworks (e.g. VictorianMental Health Act – 2014, Privacy Act – 1988, Victorian Guardianship and Administration Act - 2019, MARAM family violence expectations) and their application.
• Liaising with acute services including EMH, Pacer, Police, Ambulance Victoria in the Duty clinician role.
• Provision of discipline specific supervision, facilitating the psychosis peer supervision group within service.
• Contribution to service evaluation
  
  

• This role involved working with Autistic Children and their family's to assess, develop and implement programs to support a range of developmental challenges. Skills included use of Carole Grey's social stories, groups, preparation for school, strategies to manage sensory overwhelm.
• Cognitive reports and recommendations
• Liaising with Speech therapists, Occupational therapists, psychiatrists, Family therapists.

Senior Psychologist - The Paterson Centre for Mental Health (0.6 EFT)

An adult out-patient service providing psychological intervention for the North West London region. Referrals received from; G.P.‘s, Accident and Emergency Services at St. Mary's Hospital, three local community mental health teams, and also from the acute mental health ward and adult day care programs on site. There is also provision of contracted outreach psychological services directly to GP practices in the community.

The role involved:

• Triaging new referrals to appropriate services (e.g. psychiatric services, longer term psychotherapy, dependency services, and eating disorder clinics), managing and updating the waiting list, sending out pre/post treatment assessment questionnaires.
• Responsibility for maintaining departmental contact data, and training staff to keep records in accordance with regulations, policies and established practices.
• Liaison with a range of mental health professionals and services (e.g. extended day care services, Trauma Stress Clinic, Pain Clinic) and attending Care Plan Approach meetings.
• Group Therapies; regular weekly group sessions for patients on the acute ward, facilitation and supervision of Mood management groups for outpatient service users (Anxiety, self-esteem, depression).
• Working with asylum seekers from countries such as the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia who were traumatized, grieving and/or presenting with Adjustment Issues. Co working with interpreters, and local community services such as the Medical Foundation, Refugee Council and Outreach Support Services was essential.
• Participation in clinical psychology teaching programs at UCL (University College London), Royal Holloway University.
• Supervision of; clinical psychology trainee placements and small scale projects, teaching and case consultation with junior doctors on the use of psychological approaches in their clinical work.
• Attending individual and peer supervision. Regular teaching sessions and case presentations at regional meetings of all local psychology services in the NWL Trust to enhance professional development.
• Psychology representative to attend a Review of Risk Assessment policies with Department of Health, London.
• Facilitation of risk working party and development of risk assessment checklist and guidance notes for use within the BKCW Trust.

Senior Clinical Psychologist (0.4EFT)

• Provision of psychological service to older adults within the northern part of Westminster, London.
• The position involved; assessment and where appropriate psychological intervention for older adults, liaison with community mental health teams, day care services, families, supervision of trainees, and also data collection and research.
• Observation of clients in various situations; selecting, administering, and interpreting psychometric tests and communicating results to clients, family's other health professionals.

• The position involved assessment and facilitation of intensive group therapy programs at Kia Marama (a National Unit for sex offenders within Rolleston Prison). Programs particularly focused on issues related to cognitive distortions, empathy deficits, developing appropriate adult relationship skills, mood management (anger, depression, anxiety and stress), alcohol and drug problems, working with group process issues and relapse prevention techniques. Supporting participants own experiences of trauma
• Responsibilities required consultation with local forensic psychiatric services, the Child and Young Persons Service (risk assessment), Liaison and training of Prison staff and community based Probation Officers regarding relapse prevention.
• The unit worked closely with the University of Canterbury and provided supervision of clinical psychologists in training, student lectures and also involvement in various outcome research projects (supervised by Dr. S. Hudson).