Collie Nixon Stewart

• Facilitated group therapy sessions, enhancing emotional well-being.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to provide holistic care.
• Implemented play therapy techniques with child clients, improving emotional expression.
• Devised psychosocial education materials, promoting mental health awareness.
• Specialised in trauma-focused therapy methods, aiding post-traumatic growth.
• Enhanced self-awareness with psychoanalytic techniques.
• Conducted comprehensive assessments for accurate diagnosis.
• Cultivated empathetic therapeutic relationships to foster trust and open communication.
• Developed individualised treatment plans to promote mental health recovery.
• Adhered to ethical guidelines whilst maintaining high standards of practice in psychotherapy.
• Provided crisis intervention services, ensuring immediate safety.
• Participated in continuous professional development activities, keeping up-to-date with emerging theories and practices.
• Performed client assessments and developed treatment plans.
• Provided client-focused therapy interventions within clinical settings.
• Managed diverse caseload with consistently positive outcomes and client satisfaction.
• Conducted therapeutic interviews on a group and individual basis.

• Provided specialist assessment and treatment to clients who present at the Hackney Recovery Service with complex trauma, substance abuse and significant difficulties in the area of their personality functioning
• Liaise with acute services and develop pathways to support and motivate individuals to maintain engagement to continue with their recovery.
• Assess the mental state and risk for a wide range of patients with complex mental health problems including Personality Disorder/Complex Trauma and substance misuse.
• Provide psychological treatment to a caseload while acting as lead professional to those service users working closely with other members of the team within and outside of the Hackney Recovery Service.
• Collaborated with other professionals to contribute to the establishment of continuity of care across services with a particular focus on facilitating the engagement of service users with mental health services in secondary care
• Offered brief psychologically informed interventions in a meaningful way to develop a clear formulation around difficulties.
• Supported transition to other services or provide support within the system to other professionals
• Consulted to the broader staff team within the Hackney Recovery Service on the management of cases presenting with complex trauma and personality-related issues.

• Manage and supervise 11 qualified staff members
• Championed best practice through regular case reviews and supervision sessions
• Budget management
• Managed duty crisis walk-in and telephone contact as senior manager
• Managed internal resources efficiently, maximised operational efficiency within department.
• Strong clinical leadership
• Developed comprehensive care plans for improved well-being.
• Performed risk assessments, mitigated potential hazards effectively.
• Designed innovative strategies, significantly improved patient engagement.
• Appraised staff performance and development
• Provided expert advice to junior practitioners for skill development.
• Managed complex caseloads whilst maintaining high standards of care and professionalism.
• Ensured consistent quality care with rigorous audit processes.
• Evaluated patient progress, ensuring effective treatment provision.
• Enhanced patient satisfaction with tailored intervention plans.
• Facilitated training workshops to enhance staff competencies.

• Managed 40 staff members
• Successfully delivered on tasks within tight deadlines.
• Piloted change management initiatives successfully improving organisational adaptability.
• Implemented cost reduction measures, reduced overhead expenses.
• Streamlined communication channels, enhanced internal information flow.
• Supervised project timelines for timely completion.
• Boosted department efficiency by streamlining operational processes
• Delegated tasks efficiently to maximise productivity.
• Maintained smooth-running business operations by delegating priorities to staff abilities.
• Effective leadership of the delivery of the team's core functions, which includes but is not limited to delivering effective Home Treatment to Haringey residents as an alternative to admission, ensuring early discharges are coordinated and facilitated to acute in-patients and assessment units, thus gate-keeping acute in-patient beds.
• Working closely with the Crisis Houses to support staff and ensuring patients received thehighest standard or care in times of a crisis
• Leading the development of protocols, procedures and systems to integrate practice across the borough.

• Bed management- Managed all requests for inpatient beds, coordinated admissions, supported the clinical prioritization of requests for inpatient acute beds, and ensured the daily bed state is accurate and current.
• Discharge facilitation- supported clinical teams to facilitate timely and early discharge where appropriate,
• Gatekeeping- Supported the CRHTs with maintaining consistent, appropriate admission thresholds, including attending assessments, reviewing requests for hospital admission, encouraging and supporting the use of intensive home treatment or Crisis house stay as an alternative to acute admission.
• Provided leadership and all acute patient through-put from admission to discharge, and exercised key responsibility whilst working autonomously and interdependently to place patients in an appropriate bed.
• Established care pathways in determining the time frame for admission and utilised the established protocol placement of patients during escalating demand for emergency admissions
• Supported the performance manager in meeting targets and KPI’s
• Collaborated by closely working with all senior Multidisciplinary professionals by supporting, advising and directing suitable outcomes.
• Planned patient admissions and contributed to the hospital strategy on bed complement and configuration.
• Used project management methodology to release capacity, and collating data on length of stay, delayed discharges and complex cases.

• Assessed patients under the Mental Health Act, and making decisions about hospital admission
• Ensured that the Mental Health Act 1983 requirements are met and that patients’ rights under the Act are upheld.
• Made independent judgments relating to disposals under the MHA 1983, taking into account a wide range of external influences and factors.
• Screen referrals and coordinate assessments.
• Complete assessment reports and statutory documents
• Consider the wishes of the patient and their family
• Make applications to the hospital for assessment and treatment
• Decide whether to detain someone and arrange transport to the hospital
• Provide a social perspective to the assessment process
• Ensured the protection of persons and safety of Service Users property throughout and following application of the MHA’83.
• Carried out and managed the process of MHA assessments, consistent with legal and statutory obligations.
• Identified the least restrictive options and to act as an autonomous professional, consistent the mental health legislation and associated Codes of Practice.
• Engaged and supported Nearest Relatives when undertaking statutory work.
• Provided, supported and advised colleagues in relation to statutory work; including Community Treatment Orders, Guardianship, Mental Health Tribunals and MCA issues.

Senior Clinical Nurse Practitioner November 2005 –March 2012
City & Hackney Crisis Service

• Provided of service users and/or carers with a full multidisciplinary range of acute care and crisis intervention which include a psychiatric assessment, biopsychosocial model approach to care, active clinical risk assessment and management, mental health promotion and liaison with both NHS and other agencies; supporting, supervising and coordinating junior staff and clinical activities on a daily basis.

Clinical Lead Nurse September 2010 – July 2011
City & Hackney Crisis Service

• Leading on complex cases by providing clients and carers presenting to the Crisis Service with a comprehensive, multidisciplinary range of acute care and crisis interventions.
• Lead and develop the monitoring and evaluation through auditing the effectiveness of systems and taking corrective actions; ensuring effective systems are in place to support the delivery of high standards of treatment.
• Lead in the mentoring and supervision of students on placement in the Crisis Service.
• Ensuring that at all times, the resources, human and supplies, are maintained to ensure smooth running of the service within allocated budgets
• Initiating, co-ordinating and assisting in the investigation of matters pertaining to untoward incidents and complaints
  Providing regular management supervision of Senior Practitioners and other staff, ensuring staff performance is appropriately monitored and managed.
• Actively leading and supporting the manager in the selection, recruitment and retention of all staff and deputising in his absence.

Lead Psychiatric Liaison Nurse February 2010 –April 2010
Homerton University Hospital and City & Hackney Crisis Service

• Responsible for specific clinical and managerial projects and undertake all necessary work to complete these, including facilitating meetings, liaising and/or negotiating with other staff.
• Responsible for the full assessment of care needs of patients presenting with a wide variety of clinical conditions in A&E. Following this, the post-holder will be responsible for development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision.
  - Participated in structured clinical supervision per Trust policies and procedures; and take responsibility for supervising nurses and others in non-mental health settings working with patients with mental health problems.
• Lead in structured clinical supervision and take responsibility for the supervision of nurses and others in non-mental health settings working with patients with mental health problems.
• Carried out specialist assessments, developed, implemented, evaluated and documented specialist care, and directed complex cases.
  
  Acting Clinical Lead Nurse 2008 - 2009
  City & Hackney Crisis Service
• A senior member of staff working autonomously in a leadership role providing supporting advice to staff working within the City and Hackney Crisis Service.
• An active practitioner within the service acting as a role model to other staff members, clinical management, research, evidence-based service development, audit and supervision of junior staff, and deputizing for the Team Manager in his absence.
• Implemented new protocols, resulting in streamlined processes and enhanced efficiency.