Kevin Patton

• Working across two male prisons in London
• Managing a caseload, providing one to one counselling interventions.
• Planning and facilitating therapeutic sessions as part of the Wellbeing and Recovery range of interventions as required by the Team Leaders or Service Manager, for all suitable clients.
• Creating a safe and supportive therapeutic counselling relationship to progress the work and meet the assessed needs of the client in counselling.

• Case Manager contracted to Forward Trust supporting substance users at HMP Wormwood Scrubs

• Supervision of Hypnotherapists on the General Hypnotherapy Register

• Delivering personalised evidence-based coaching and therapy to individuals and groups.

• Coaching Students engaged on a Level 4 Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy course

• In addition to carrying a caseload, I facilitated groups for people engaged in court-ordered Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation groups

• In addition to carrying a caseload, I acted as the housing specialist within a team working with substance using offenders to reduce barriers to treatment and address problems associated with the use of drugs and alcohol.
• Delivery of Group Programmes within HMP Brixton and HMP Pentonville

• Managing and supporting teams of Parent Support Advisers and School-Home Support workers in London boroughs of Barking & Dagenham and Newham.

• Design, authorship and delivery of training on subjects such as Managing Violence and Aggression, Team Building, Housing Legislation and Drug Awareness for a variety of organisations including the Citizens Advice Bureau, Shelter, and the Shalom Centre.

• Responsible for a managing building-based Needle Exchange practitioners, mobile needle exchange workers, covering London boroughs of Lambeth Southwark and Lewisham, direct delivery of needles exchange, Overdose Management training and support and advocacy for clients presenting with complex needs

• Responsible for a specialist Housing service for drug users in Croydon, managing Outreach Workers, Support Workers and Advice Workers. Carrying a personal caseload of more complex cases.

• Recruited, trained and developed a team of volunteers and peer support workers as part of a multidisciplinary team working in a crack project in Brixton.

• Co-ordinating the operations of an Outreach Team working with Street Drinkers in Hackney.
• Setting up and running a Breakfast Club.

• Responsible for setting up and running a Pilot "Wet Centre" in Camden.

Recruitment, selection, training, management and development of a team of volunteers to work in a Day Centre supporting people who are homeless and/or marginalised.

• Responsible for the Housing Needs and Allocations Service to the City of Norwich.
• Serving as the city's Lead Officer for Asylum Seekers in the East Anglia Consortium.

• Managing a team of support workers responsible for a 31-bed direct access hostel.

• Managing a team of Supported Housing Officers responsible for a 84-bed direct access hostel and two 2nd Stage Supported Housing schemes.
• Selection and training of Project Tea Leaders for two Winter Shelters.
• Also responsible for the development and support of a local partnership organising and managing an Asylum Seekers Shelter.

• Responsible for a team of Project Workers in three Cold Weather Shelters operating during the winter months as part of the Rough Sleepers Initiative.