Shivi Anand

• Mental Health Clinician at the Psychological Trauma recovery service
• Completed Intake assessment with Clients, this includes completing Bio-Psychosocial assessment, Risk Assessments.
• Maintained confidentiality of records relating to clients' treatment.
• Working Collaboratively with Client's referral and other services involved in the clients care.
• Providing Trauma informed care
• Working with clients having severe work related Trauma like Veterans, Police officers
• Presenting cases to a multidisciplinary team, working collaboratively to provide both inpatient and outpatient care.
• Managing huge volume of enquiries, referrals, intake assessments, feedback and admission coordination
• Advocated to coordinate required services or resolve emergency problems in crisis situations.
• Collecting Collateral from other services involved in the care of the client
• Conducted evaluations to help patients develop measurable treatment goals.

Referral : Audine McGovern

Contact information given upon request

• Mental health clinician at CYHMS and School Early action Program
• Facilitated Group Programs to provide early intervention support to children, Families and School
• Offered therapeutic services and crisis intervention to young children (Prep-to Grade 3 Age group)
• Providing Group therapy sessions for 8 weeks, with a plan of sharing recommendations report with School and Carer's of children at the end of the group program
• Reflective practice, sharing observations about areas to be developed, strengths and other services client can access at the end of program
• Presented clinical documentation and observations to interdisciplinary team.
• Formulated treatment plan strategies with multidisciplinary teams to provide comprehensive and continuous care plan.
• Conducted comprehensive assessments of clients to develop individualized treatment plans.
• Facilitated group therapy sessions to meet needs of individuals with having various Mental health issues.
• Consulting with school staff on social and emotional learning
• Conducting of parent and teacher screening as well as pre and post intervention data
• Initiated early engagement of families and inviting parents to initial interviews with CASEA team
• Referee- Rosalin Shafik EID (Program manager)

Contact information given upon request

• Provided Support to managers, proprietors and residents of in scope properties with prevention and outbreak planning e.g-SRS, Public housing
• Providing information relating to the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccination program, and government pandemic advice
• Actively contributing to planning and coordination to fulfill HRAR objective( Crisis response and outbreak management, Vaccine promotion).
• Helped vulnerable people get vaccinated
• Helped vulnerable people in isolation with Food relief and mental health support. Also made referrals to other agencies as per the assessments.
• Continuously worked to Build relationships with other service providers and investigated opportunities for cross-functional collaboration.
• Supported consumer participation in partner-led and Merri-led activities such as evaluation, reference groups and other projects

Referee - Della Rob( senior social worker)

Contact information given Upon request

• Gained experience in working directly with people with health issues and complex needs and developed the ability to identify the need for referrals to other professions.
• Developed understanding and knowledge of cultural diversity to work in a culturally inclusive way.
• Fostered strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and referred clients to relevant community services.
• Conducted research on community demographics and completed the community needs Analysis project.
• Building connections with other human service organisations in an area.
• Gained experience in psychosocial assessments and documenting client notes.

REFERRAL: Lauren Bonnet (Social worker at CCSA) 0410692904 lbonnet@marionlife.org.au.

• Field practice working alongside the school staff, students, and their parents in order to best meet the needs of individuals and groups of children and young people.
• Promoted students’ wellbeing through class support, casework, facilitation of small groups, lunch activities and gardening programs.
• Provided small group and classroom support to students, while monitoring progress to determine theefficiency of programs.
• Assisted in identifying available and necessary community resources for students.
• Participated in interventions, administrative reviews, and due process proceedings as needed.
• Completed and organized paperwork for at-risk and special education students.
• Aided students in applying for beneficial government and community resources available to them.
• Modified programs and suggestions for clients as needed.
• Worked in partnership with schoolteachers, counsellors, and social work colleagues for consultation and support.
• Communicated with guidance counsellors and school administration to incorporate positive reinforcement strategies for students.
• Attended support meetings to monitor at-risk students.
• Participated in classroom observations to assess student engagement and behaviour in the classroom.

REFERRAL: Martyn Cook (School wellbeing officer) 0400 149 759