Dr Alexandra Hardy Reflective Minds Ltd

• Worked with senior leaders of this department to embed psychological understanding and therapeutic parenting (trauma informed care) as its core business
• Provided accessible mental health/psychological consultation and treatment
• Hold a small clinical caseload and deliver individual assessment and therapeutic intervention for children and young people that are Looked After/in Kinship care. Specialising in attachment (DDP, Theraplay) and trauma based therapeutic work (EMDR, TF-CBT)
• Regularly conduct risk assessments and management plans to prevent self-harm or harm towards others. Including crisis support.
• provide consultation, training and coaching to social workers, and foster carers around the application of psychological theory to their daily work.
• Regularly conduct risk assessments and risk management plan to prevent self-harm or harm towards others. Including crisis support.
• Includes providing therapeutic input to placements for children/young people with complex presentations and supporting and advising on the transition to permanent placements, including adoption, reunification with parents and kinship/connected person based care
• I sit on the senior commissioning resource panel as an expert clinical advisor

Company overview: high quality psychological services

• Developing psychologically led clinical services to a range of organisations
• Specialising in trauma (and attachment) based assessment and therapy (single incident and complex developmental trauma presentations) for children and young people who are fostered, adopted and in kinship care
• Working with the broad range of mental health presentations and harmful sexual behaviour, exploitation, physical aggression and deliberate self-harm
• Providing expert witness reports for the Family Court
• Providing consultation, clinical supervision, and teaching to a range of audiences on a range of topics

• Provided forensic related consultation, supervision and teaching to a range of professionals in health and social care
• Sat on the harmful sexual behaviour regional panel providing mental health expertise

• Led a clinical psychology service for young people who were in the criminal justice system and those secured on welfare grounds
• Delivered direct Harmful Sexual Behaviour and physical aggression based interventions and provided consultancy and supervision to health and local authority colleagues
• Managed and supervised a team of psychologists within this service
• Provided consultation and supervision to multidisciplinary colleagues and local authority partners, addressing issues of risk management and risk reduction work
• Specialised in working with the Looked After population within the forensic and secure children's home system

• CAMHS Clinical lead for Looked After Children
• Managed and supervised clinical team
• CAMHS representative on NHS Commissioning panel and CSE panel
• Provided individual formal psychological assessment and intervention for children and young people, including mental health, sibling assessment, parental attachment contact to aid care planning
• Specialised in attachment and trauma work, and a broad range of mental health and behavioural problems e.g. DDP, Theraplay, Narrative informed approaches and Trauma focused CBT and EMDR
• Provided consultation with social workers and Looked After Children's nurses, and teachers

• Delivered assessment and therapy for looked after and adopted children and young people
• Delivered assessment, and therapy for children, young people and adults that had experienced trauma
• Provided clinical supervision to other clinical psychologists
• Marked 300+ GCSE psychology exam papers per academic year
• Contributed to the development of the standardised marking scheme

• Paediatrics- specialised in working with children aged 0-5 years with developmental delay or disorders
• Provided diagnostic Autism Spectrum disorder assessments, as well as assessments around attachment, feeding issues, Learning Disability, neuropsychological issues, ADHD and general developmental assessments & therapeutic interventions
• CAMHS -delivered assessment and therapy for a wide range of mental health and behavioural problems for children, young people and their families
• I also provided more specialist neuropsychological assessments, Learning Disability diagnostic assessments, diagnostic Autism Spectrum assessments for 14- 18 year olds