Angeliki Mazaraki

Working as a Clinical Lead in a large generic mental health CAMHS team. Key responsibilities include:

• Continuous evaluation and strategic development of our therapeutic approach and standards.
• Modelling high standards of evidence-based clinical practice for the team
• Chairing MDT (multi-disciplinary team) meetings where clinical care planning & risk assessments are formulated.
• Contributing to staff CPD through reflective practice groups, clinical supervision, teaching and sharing of evidence based practice and up to date research
• Liaise with Safeguarding, and external agencies such as Social Care, Hospitals, Adolescent Units (T4), external care providers (i.e. IAPT, adult mental health services, specialist services).
• Lead on risk formulation and safety planning.
• Supervise and develop staff
• Lead on the delivery of trauma-focussed work in team
• Hold an extensive caseload of complex cases requiring system support and/or child psychotherapy

Working as a Clinical Lead of a 35-staff specialist Eating Disorder team. Key responsibilities included:

• Continuous evaluation and strategic development of our therapeutic approach and standards.
• Development of professional relationships across our treatment pathways and with other internal CAMHS and external MDTs.
• Service Evaluation, implementation and evaluation of standardized Routine Outcome Monitoring.
• Supervision of staff and share experience and knowledge across teams.
• Offer specialist consultations to other CAMHS teams.
• Foster key relationships with Health partners and other agencies (i.e. Tier 4, Transforming Care etc.)
• Lead on senior case reviews for complex cases.
• LAAC Lead for EDT
• Offering Specialist Child Psychotherapy and State of Mind Assessments
• Extensive caseload, delivering weekly child psychotherapy sessions
• Extensive portfolio of parent work
• Work closely with the Team Manager to deliver high quality Risk assessments / Care plans.
• Managing the referrals and allocations process, waiting lists and KPIs

Worked in a part-time capacity as a visiting lecturer delivering lectures, acting as a Personal Tutor to a number of students and supervising 3rd year MA Dissertations. Also responsible for facilitating seminar groups on:

• Work Discussion
• Psychoanalytic Theory
• Young Child Observation

Worked in a specialist capacity within the largest generic team in London and also in an all-girl secondary school one day per week.

Responsible for:

• Generic assessments
• Specialist child psychotherapy and state of mind assessments
• Delivering weekly child psychotherapy sessions
• Extensive portfolio of parent work
• Working with the MDT on complex cases & extensive consultation within internal & external MDT.
• Clinician on Duty work
• Referral screening / Intake
• Supervision of school clinicians
• Risk assessments

Whilst on the Doctoral Training in Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust, I worked as part of the CAMHS team in Leicestershire NHS Trust CAMHS.

• Worked mainly within a generic CAMHS out-patient service as well as with patients from the Fostering & Adoption Service, and from the Eating Disorder Unit.
• Responsible for:
• Assessments for psychotherapy & State of Mind Assessments
• Delivering weekly and twice-weekly psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children and young people presenting with moderate/severe mental health issues.
• Intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy (3 x weekly) to an Under 5, a latency and an adolescent case
• Parent work
• Supervision & consultations to colleagues
• Joint work with other members of the MDT (Consultant Psychiatrists, Psychiatric Nurses & Clinical Psychologists in the main).
• Access (entry point) and Duty work
• Risk Assessments

• Delivering a therapeutic service to children, parents and staff in a primary school (2.5 days per week) and specialist parenting interventions (1.5 days per week).
• Consultation service to parents and teachers working with the Under 5’s / Nursery & Reception.
• Counselling assessment for children and parents
• One-to-one counselling for children across the primary school (Y1-Y6)
• Therapeutic Group work
• Supervision of a team of four Volunteer Counsellors
• Working closely with the Head of School to manage Safeguarding concerns
• Working closely with CAMHS and other specialist services
• Delivery of Parenting Programmes (Incredible Years groups & Parent-Child Interaction Therapy)
• Delivery of family programmes designed to address the impact of addiction on children’s lives

• Supervising a group of trainees on the Postgraduate Diploma CYP IAPT Parenting Therapy to enhance their knowledge and skills in delivering specialist CAMHS interventions to single families or groups of parents with children with conduct disorders.

• Led on:
• Delivery of a full & effective service across 200 schools
• Development of clinical services and all clinical policies/procedures
• Clinical supervision of therapists/counsellors, especially the Parent Counsellor group
• Strategic planning, overseeing pilots & project performance
• Supervised the Head of Safeguarding

• Overseeing the delivery of the Place2Be therapeutic model in a number of areas (Scotland, London and Nottingham), leading on recruitment of clinical staff, inductions of volunteer counselors, negotiations with local authorities, supporting the delivery of the strategic plan.
• Working in schools with Place2Be staff, development of assessments, direct supervision of volunteers and staff delivering clinical work.

• Responsible for:
• Development of R&E projects, pilots, stakeholder engagement & service development.
• Led on the development of the Samaritans texting service.
• Supported the training development for 18,500 volunteers across the UK

• Offered open-ended psychoanalytic psychotherapy to adult patients.

• Delivered therapeutic individual and group work to women at all stages of motherhood who needed to address particular issues related to themselves and their children.

• Delivery of intensive residential psychotherapeutic support to individuals with very complex mental health needs.

• Set up and managed 8 mental health community residential projects in Tower Hamlets, leading a large staff team and holding accountability for registered care home standards, resource allocation, financial management and organizational change.

• Managed a large therapeutic community, supervised staff and volunteers on placement, maintained a high-quality therapeutic environment.