Tess Philip

Currently working here since August 26th 2024, 24 hours per week.

• Meeting KPI's by 180%
• Consistently building strong rapport with clients and receiving positive feedback.
• Using evidence-based strategies to support children and young people experiencing difficulties related to their wellbeing, as well as their families and other professionals.
• Working with a broad range of clients across the life-span with varying presentations from Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar, Borderline Personality Disorder, ADHD, and Autism and working with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBTQI, Elderly, Separated families and the elderly.
• Providing services to individuals, families, groups and relevant stakeholder organisations.
• Provide therapeutic clinical advice, support and guidance to a range of clients and their families, caregivers and other professionals.
• Psychological and counselling services to children, their families, young adults and older adults from different backgrounds and diverse cultures.
• Providing psychometric assessments and screeners, and consulting with GP's and other stakeholders
• Contributing to and discussion of cases to group supervision.

15th January - 15th July 2024, Part-Time 30 hrs/week

No longer able to provide supervision and let go due to inability to "maintain and retain" clients.

Please see Cover Letter from the 24-month progress report submitted. Used some time off to study for the NPE in August and look for a new job.

• Completed training with Wise Minds, Coral Tree (Macquarie Hospital), and Attwood and Garnett.
• Providing evidence-based treatment to members of the community who are referred to the Read Clinic.
• Working autonomously, completing casework and administrative tasks and duties related to clients.
• Providing therapeutic sessions using evidence-based interventions and developed tailored treatment plans using a range of psychometric assessments.
• GP letters and other psychological reports and assessments.
• Conducted WAIS-4 Training and completed bi-weekly ADHD Assessments and reports.

January 16th - 10th April 2023, Part-Time 24 hrs/week

Left due to inadequate training and (internal) primary supervision.

Looking for work, for 5 weeks.

Please see the progress report for 12 months (due 8/5/23) for more information.

• Evidence-based assessments and interventions for children, adolescents, adults, couples, families and groups of all backgrounds and for a wide variety of issues.
• Treatment and intervention and therapeutic support for children, young people, adults and the elderly.
• Forging strong therapeutic alliance with clients and referral networks.
• Provided assessment and intervention to clients of all ages and cultural backgrounds presenting with a broad range of psychological issues
• Conduct psychological assessments via face-to-face, telephone, video, and electronic client-contact, including:
• Mental Status Examinations(MSE)
  Risk assessments for clients at risk of harming themselves or others.
• Formulation, design, and implementation of evidence-based therapy modalities to meet client goals, e.g., Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).

18th July - 24th October 2022, Part-Time, 24 hrs/week

Organisation permanently closed down

Looked for more work, for several weeks and took 4 weeks leave over Christmas period.

Please see 6 month progress report (21st Nov 23) & Cover Letter for more information.

• Working with Children, families and parents to successfully building rapport and achieving therapeutic outcomes.
• Facilitated skills development workshops for children
• CBT, and Play therapy for children aged 6 years and over.
• Working with children with ADHD, ASD, ODD and other behavioural concerns
• Assessing developmental, learning and behavioural difficulties.
• Researched, developed and implemented group therapy for children to help build confidence, social skills and positive relationships.

22nd May - 23rd October 2023, Casual 20 hrs per week

Unable to provide adequate supervision, and training (Please refer to 18-month Progress Report + Cover Letter Submitted, 20th November 2023). Looking for work, and due to being so close to end of year was unable to secure until New Year.

• Provide direct face to face client work in the Sprout Psychology Centre clinic, family homes and schools. Presentations include (Children and Adolescents):

· Anxiety
· Behavioural concerns
· Family separation· Social Concerns

· Trauma · ASD
· ADHD · ODD

required to:

· Trauma · ASD
· ADHD · ODD

• Complete psychological, mental health and psychometric testing including Mental Status Examinations, Adaptive Functioning (e.g. ABAS 3) tests, Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS- 21), Spence Children's Anxiety Scale, Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, Beck Youth Inventories, Child behaviour checklist (CBCL), Conners Behaviour Rating Scale (CBRS) and others as needed to assist in case formulation.
• Intervention strategies primarily included Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness, Trauma-Informed practice, Emotional and Social Skills Training or Narrative therapy, Play therapy, and Brief solution focused therapy
• Required to build working relationships with families, GPs, schools, and other allied health professionals.
• Complete NDIS review reports.
• Complete functional behaviour assessments, observations, data collection, behaviour support plans, behaviour assessment reports, and staff training as required.
• Required to build working relationships with families, GPs, schools and other allied health professionals.
• Complete NDIS review reports
• Complete functional behaviour assessments, observations, data collection, behaviour support plans, behaviour assessment reports and staff training as required.

May 16th, 2022 - 22th June, 2022 Full-Time

Left due to pursuing other opportunities

• Case management: assisting injured workers in overcoming non-medical barriers and securing suitable employment
• Assessing, interpreting and co-ordinating the medical, employment, industrial, social, psychological and legal information of each case to ensure the appropriate intervention and successful rehabilitation outcome
• Administration and interpretation of assessments, including Vocational Assessment, Transferable Skills Analysis, Psychosocial Pain Inventory, Pain Catastrophising Scale, Personality Assessments
• Proactively maintaining and reviewing case files is a key responsibility, demonstrating the case manager's commitment to the rehabilitation process
• Establishing a professional relationship with all parties involved in the rehabilitation process, including workers, Psychologists/Psychiatrists, Doctors, Insurers, Allied Health Providers, Insurers and Employers
• Applying legislative knowledge in the decision-making process
• Formal report writing
• Adhering to the time-critical activity standards, billing standards and relevant protocols established by Rehabilitation Services by Altius