About Me / My Career so far

Parallel to my counselling roles, I have chosen to have a diverse career working in different environments, to enable me to support young people and families from diverse backgrounds

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 These include

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  • Children aged 8-18 with severe learning and physical challenges.

  • Children aged 6-18 who needed emergency accommodation.

  • Looked after Children aged between 5-21

  • Young people aged 13-18 from psychiatric hospitals who needed specialist support to integrate back into society

  • Young women aged 14+ who were detained in psychiatric hospitals

  • Secondary school children (11-16) in a mainstream school. SEND requirements and emotional and behavioural needs

  • Children aged 8-18 who had suffered sexual abuse

  • Children aged 11-18 who had experienced, and were experiencing, being sexually exploited.

  • Boys aged 11-21 who exhibit sexually harmful behaviours.

 

Through my career I have progressed to management, have gained qualification in every different sector, and have an extensive portfolio of specialist training.

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My enhanced DBS and safeguarding training requirements have been continuously updated throughout my career and are both not due to expire until 2022. 

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