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Background, Experience and Achievements

I'm a highly experienced consultant working in and with Clinical Commissioning Groups, Local Authorities, Integrated Care Systems/ Boards, Providers and multi professional teams to setup and improve children and young people's mental health services.
I've also written and delivered thousands of hours of training around behaviour management and social, emotional and mental health needs.
Through consultancy and support I have improved services and schools across the north of England and beyond as well as creating some highly regarded products and services in my field of children and young people's social, emotional and mental health.

NHS ICS/ ICB

Independent Consultant

Children and Young People's Mental Health 

  • Norfolk & Waveney ICB - Single Point of Access Project Lead- current

  • Bradford children and Young people mental health single point of access development lead - Partnership working, governance, model development, business case creation & sign off, Thrive framework analysis and training. 2022

  • Bradford DATA1 Neurodiversity Pathway re design: Comms Lead 2022

  • Calderdale Strategic MHST strategic lead - current

  • Calderdale CAMHS and system - wide staff skills strategy, audit and development pla​​n

  • Calderdale annual workforce survey and analysis

  • Written successful Calderdale MHST bid, described as 'best they've seen; fully thought through" by NHS England

SEND

  • West Yorkshire ICB - Creation of an ICS wide EHCP Health Quality Assessment Framework and Audit Tool to enable good quality EHCP health advice and outcomes. 2022

  • West Yorkshire ICB - Developing SEND Outcomes: A good practice guide to using and improving outcomes in health services - current

NHS CCG

​​Social, Emotional and Mental Health Consultant: NHS Leeds 2015 - April 2020

  • Designed, co-created, oversight and quality assurance of schools' mental health support: MindMate Wellbeing.

  • Supported Single Point of Access Development

  • Assessments, outputs and outcomes lead including Mental Health Services Dataset

  • Bespoke, cross-service, SNOMED compatible needs labels

  • Designed and created MindMate Champions and MindMate Lessons​.

  • Wrote successful Mental Health Support Team (MHST) bid

  • Led implementation of MHST in Leeds​

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Local Authority

Senior Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Consultant: Leeds 2007 - 2015

  • Created and managed Emotional Wellbeing Waved Approach website

  •  Designed, created and managed Targeted Mental Health in Schools (TaMHS) Leeds​ (counselling in schools)

  • Created and delivered training and conferences

  • School SEMH support

  • Healthy schools support

  • Successful bid writing

  • Bespoke Excel tools for recording and reporting outputs and outcomes

 

Behaviour Support Team Senior Support Teacher: Cheshire 2004 -2007

  • Inclusion Support to schools for pupils with challenging behavior​

  • Created and delivered behaviour management training

  • Co created 'Graduated Response to SEN Code of Practice'

Universities

Freelance Consultant: Sheffield University: March 2020

Education Mental Health Practitioner Lecture: Introduction to Low Intensity Working in education settings

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Freelance Consultant: Midlands CYP IAPT Collaborative Education Mental Health Practitioner Assurance Project Lead (Northampton University)

April 2019 - Jan 2020

Leading the Trailblazer project in the Midlands with support, planning, partnership working and assurance alongside Health Education England, NHS England, Department for Education and Trailblazer sites

Digital

  • MYMUP Digital to develop their MHST Function recording and reporting

  • Working with BfB labs to develop their data and evidence comms for their innovative, award winning and evidence based mental health video game Luminova 

Schools and Education Settings

  • Mainstream Primary school teacher, PE coordinator and SENCO: Manchester

  • Moderate learning difficulties teacher, PE and ICT coordinator: Manchester

  • Significant Learning Difficulties and Challenging Behaviour Teacher: Preston

  • Significant Learning Difficulties: Trosly -Breuil, France

Education

  • 2:1 BSC Hons Psychology and French

  • PGCE Primary

Other Things

Trained & Experienced in:

  • Thrive Framework implementation and training

  • Webster Stratton Classroom Management Group Leader

  • Mindfulness Practitioner

  • Restorative Practice

  • Effective Leadership

  • SEND and Code of Practice

  • Advanced Microsoft Office

  • Bespoke Excel analysis tools

  • Data management and analysis (Including NHS MHSDS)

  • Website Design

  • Safeguarding

  • Demand and Capacity

  • Service pathways

  • Thrive

  • Coaching

  • Jenny Moseley Circle Time

  • Developing Effective Behaviour Support

  • Classroom Management: Improving Pupil Behaviour

  • Emotionally Literate Approach to Anger Management

  • Team Teach

  • Presentation and Writing

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