Emeka Ahanonu
Ipswich,Suffolk
Summary
Forward looking, resilient and passionate mental health practitioner with practical skills.
Honest, calm and assertive clinician adept in facilitating rapport and therapeutic relationships with clients using the CBT Model.
Knowledgeable and compassionate practitioner involved in the challenges and prospects within the National Talking Therapies Service Provision.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner
Norfolk And Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Ipswich, Suffolk
07.2022 - Current
- Adhere to strict information governance whilst handling service user's sensitive data.
- Partnership with multidisciplinary teams to support the mental health of service users and families
- Implements person centred risk assessments to maintain safety
- Robust mental health assessments, brief psychological interventions, stepped care and onward signposting within primary care setting, reducing waiting list by approximately 25%.
- Liaison with voluntary sectors/partners/GPs..
- Manages diverse caseload autonomously with minimal supervision
Occupational therapist
Norfolk And Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Ipswich, Suffolk
07.2021 - 07.2022
- Screening and prioritization of referrals within the ward
- Service user's centred assessments and interventions
- Managing caseloads of service users with minimal supervision
- Team working with multi-disciplinary professionals to increase discharges from 2 to 4 patients fortnightly into the community.
- Performed clear documentation as per professional and Trust's policies.
- Established Occupational therapy groups
- Involvement in quality improvement.
- Commitment to life long learning
Occupational therapist
Federal Neuropsychiatric hospital
Benin city, Edo state
08.2017 - 03.2018
- Worked in United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) accredited Drug ward.
- Client centred Occupational therapy assessments increased from 10% to 25% per month.
- Initiated patient driven Interventions
- Facilitated culturally sensitive high quality care
- Offered support to service users with severe mental illnesses.
- Obtained teaching experience.
Education
Post graduate certificate - Medication Management Program
University of Suffolk
Ipswich 05.2025 - 09.2025
Bachelor of Medical Rehabilitation (OT) - Occupational therapy
Obafemi Awolowo University
Nigeria 11.2008 - 09.2013
Skills
- Solution focused therapy Skills
- Dialectical Behavioural Therapy Skills
- Current knowledge on anxiety disorders and depression
- Updated knowledge on anxiolytics and antidepressants
- High quality risk management
- Leadership and Time Management Skills
- Accountability and meeting targets
- Team Collaboration
- Brief Psychological interventions
- Prevention and Management of violence and aggression
Languages
English
Fluent
Certification
- A current member of the Royal college of Occupational therapists (RCOT, Reg No: OT81039)
- A member of the RCOT Specialist section (Mental Health)
- STORM training for suicide prevention and self harm mitigation Certification
- DICES risk management trainings
- Up to date Trust statutory mandatory trainings including equality and diversity
- Makaton training
- CPD training in treating obsessive compulsive disorder/health anxiety
- CPD training in CBT for social anxieties in Adults/Adolescents.
- Training in the Prevention and Management of Aggression
- 6 Months Leadership Training Certification
Affiliations
Plays woodwind instrument - Flute
Reading research articles
Accomplishments
Leading a journal review club
References
References available upon request.
Reasons for gaps (Nigeria)
- Health Care Workers Strike in Nigeria (Nov 2014 to Feb 2015).
- Mandatory Internship Training Program ( Apr 2015-Mar 2016)
- Mandatory National Youth Service Corp ( April 2016-Mar 2017)
- Volunteer OT (May-July 2017)
- OT at University Of Benin Teaching Hospital ( Neurology ) : Mar 2018-June 2021
Timeline
Post graduate certificate - Medication Management Program
University of Suffolk
05.2025 - 09.2025
Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner
Norfolk And Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
07.2022 - Current
Occupational therapist
Norfolk And Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
07.2021 - 07.2022
Occupational therapist
Federal Neuropsychiatric hospital
08.2017 - 03.2018
Bachelor of Medical Rehabilitation (OT) - Occupational therapy
Obafemi Awolowo University
11.2008 - 09.2013
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