Stephanie Oldfield

· Assessment Administration: Eligibility Assessments, Severity of Substance Dependence, Kessler Scale of Psychological Distress, Risk Assessment (Suicide, harm to others, and risky behaviour relating to substance use), clinical interview, client history (medical, psychological and social).

· Record keeping

· Case Formulation

· Client Progress Reports

· Review and implementation of CBT programs for Anxiety, Depression, and Substance use

· Review and Implementation of Motivational Enhancement Therapy

· Attendance of local courts for MERIT Eligibility Screening

• Since June 2022, I have worked independently as a licensed Mental Health First Aid Instructor and Mental Health Training Facilitator within NSW.

• Within this role, I helped to supervise and train approximately 200 to 300 volunteers to provide psychosocial support to individuals with a lived experience of mental illness and their carers
• I also helped provide clients and volunteers with ongoing information about available mental health services across NSW, mental health diagnoses and treatments, as well as research relating to mental illness
• Within this role, I have been responsible for the design and implantation of individual and collective psychosocial support plans for clients, as well as data/KPI management of the program and professional development of the volunteers.

• Within this role, I helped to supervise and train approximately 200 to 300 volunteers to provide psychosocial support to individuals with a lived experience of mental illness and their carers
• I also helped provide clients and volunteers with ongoing information about available mental health services across NSW, mental health diagnoses and treatments, as well as research relating to mental illness
• Within this role, I have been responsible for the design and implantation of individual and collective psychosocial support plans for clients, as well as data/KPI management of the program and professional development of the volunteers.

• Over the three-year period, I occupied this role, I worked with approximately 250-300 volunteers
• Update, write and facilitate volunteer and staff training modules such as: Understanding the NSW Mental Health Environment, Understanding Psychosis, Recovery Oriented Practice, Being Trauma-Informed, Understanding Mental Health Carers, Personal and Professional Boundaries, Writing Case and Program Notes
• Design and implement risk and de-escalation protocols for situations such as Suicide risk, self-harm, and psychosis
• Facilitate Volunteer training (intake and training occurred twice a year)
• Conduct client evaluation surveys and collect qualitative program data.

• Organise and facilitate a two-day training for mental health carers living in NSW interested in becoming support group leaders
• Write and present training Modules: Overview of FCMHP, providing a supportive environment, implementing and maintaining group boundaries, fundraising and grants, ice-breakers and activities in support groups, and creating an online presence
• Collect, consolidate and present data from Carer Star measures.

• Work under Dr
• Asha Ganesan and help her design behavioural observation studies
• Collecting and recording data for meta-analysis
• Conducting behavioural studies
• Help train and supervise other volunteer research assistants.

• Provide clients with psychosocial support through regular telephone contact (mainly weekly or daily)
• Use techniques such as grounding and emotional validation to help clients through a range of complex situations, including Depressive episodes, psychosis, and suicidal ideation
• Help clients to feel empowered through goal setting and motivational interviewing techniques
• Provide clients and inbound callers with evidence-based information about various mental illnesses including Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorder/s, Mood disorders, Anxiety disorders, and Borderline Personality Disorder
• Provide information and link clients and inbound callers to available mental health services throughout NSW
• Record client's progress in Mosaic and Salesforce.

• Training experience and collaboration with The Lizard Centre and The Learning Clinic
• Run sessions of behavioural and speech therapy with children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Work on social, motor, behavioural, and cognitive skills with clients
• Provide emotional support to clients and their families
• Collect trial data and conduct behavioural analysis
• Shadow clients at pre-schools to improve skills and facilitate development.