Redbridge Mental Health Support Team are going through an exciting period of growth and expansion. We have a range of roles from aspiring mental health practitioners to experienced clinicians. Do check out the Redbridge Council website for information about our current vacancies, and check back regularly as new roles are being posted over the coming weeks. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Senior Specialist Educational Psychologist and Team Manager of Redbridge Mental Health Support Team. I have a keen interest in supporting students who experience intersectional disadvantage e.g. those in care or permanently placed, living in poverty, with learning difficulties / disabilities, families who have experienced intergenerational mental health difficulties and/or intergenerational trauma. I’m passionate about capacity-building in educational settings where staff support students with complex social, emotional, and mental health needs. This includes using person-centred, narrative, and systemic reflective practice approaches, delivering training, developing whole organisation approaches, and modelling / co-delivering interventions. Other interests include critical educational psychology, systemic approaches, organisational psychology, community psychology approaches, developing person-centred practices, narrative therapeutic approaches, post-16 working, emotionally based school avoidance, and leadership theory & practice. Research methodology interests include: critical approaches to strengths-based research, participatory research, dialogic narrative analysis & interpretative phenomenological analysis.