Dr Roberta Babb Chartered Clinical Psychologist CPsychol CSci AFBPsS 07473 20 60 52 thirdeyepsychology@protonmail.com (secure email address) As a proactive, enthusiastic, and reflective individual, I have a commitment to pursuing a career which is rewarding, engaging and consolidates my academic, clinical and personal experiences. My assets include my strong analytical and thinking skills, my ability to simplify complexity, and my capacity to listen and communicate effectively. I can develop and maintain good relations between a diverse range of individuals. I am ambitious, have experience of living and working abroad, and have engaged in my own personal therapy. I hold a genuine desire to achieve, excel and evolve within my career. EDUCATION Tavistock and Portman Clinic Trainee Psychotherapist 2016-2018 Forensic Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Tavistock and Portman Clinic Trainee Psychotherapist 2014-2016 Foundation in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. The Grove Practice at Regents College London 2010-2011 2011 - Post Graduate Diploma in Organizational Development and Executive Coaching - Merit 2010 - Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Supervision and Consultancy Merit University of Essex 2005-2008 Department of Health and Human Sciences Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology - Pass University of Kent at Canterbury 2000-2001 Department of Psychology Masters of Science in Forensic Psychology 2:1 University of East London 1997-2000 Department of Psychology Bachelor of Science with Honours in Psychology 2:1 EMPLOYMENT Chartered Clinical Psychologist Integrated Gangs Team and Camden and Islington PICT Service November 2015 Present Psychologically focused Consulting, Training, Supervision and Coaching to non-psychological staff (i.e. Police, Probation, Social Services, Council, NHS and Voluntary Organisations) o Assessment and intervention at the individual, group, and organisational level with both psychological and non-psychological professionals. Developing psychological formulations to inform the treatment and management for a core group of highly challenging and complex patients with histories of high risk and serious offending behaviour, personality disorder and mental illness group and individual format. o Organisational consultancy. o Facilitate staff reflective practice o Providing unique and collaborative approaches to problem solving. Specialist Outpatient Assessment: o Clinical Interview, Psychometric, Forensic, Risk, Medico-Legal and Personality. o Writing highly detailed formal reports in a timely fashion. o Liaising with Multidisciplinary Staff. Page 1 of 5
o Supervision. Honorary Psychotherapist East London NHS Trust October 2014 - Present Mentor for BME psychology students September 2014 - Present UCL Clinical Psychology Doctorate Programme Provision of the opportunity for psychology student to have contact with a qualified clinical psychologist. Acts as an advisor/mentor in encouraging and advising students over time towards obtaining relevant experience and making a successful application for clinical psychology training and psychology jobs post qualification. Associate Denison Williams Consulting Organisational Development Team Dynamics and Effectiveness Work Leadership Development Newham Centre for Mental Health: July 2014 November 2015 Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (NHS Band 8a) Psychological Assessment for further therapy. Completing brief psychological interventions with clients (individual and group). MDT Ward Round attendance and input. Supervision of both psychological and non-psychological staff Facilitating staff reflective practice and staff support. Facilitation of staff patient formulation meetings. Maintaining RiO contacts, outcomes and diary. Attending Team meetings (clinical and business) Bracton Centre and London Personality Disorder Pathways Project: Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (NHS Band 8a) July 2013 June 2014 Psychologically focused Consulting, Training, Supervision and Coaching to London Probation Staff. o Assessment and intervention at the individual, group, and organisational level with both psychological and non-psychological professionals. Developing psychological formulations to inform the treatment and management for a core group of highly challenging and complex patients with histories of high risk and serious offending behaviour, personality disorder and mental illness group and individual format. o Managing a number of client relationships and complex client projects/cases. o Organisational consultancy. o Facilitate staff reflective practice o Providing unique and collaborative approaches to problem solving. o Delivery and evaluation of training programmes. o Academic and Professional/Clinical Mentor and Supervisor. Specialist Outpatient Assessment: o Clinical Interview, Psychometric, Forensic, Risk, Medico-Legal and Personality. o Writing highly detailed formal reports in a timely fashion. o Liaising with Multidisciplinary Staff. o Supervision. Qualitative Researcher (Self-Employed) July 2013 Present Duties: Provide psychological and methodological support on client projects; Data analysis; Oral feedback, Report writing; Presentations and Research Supervision. Page 2 of 5
Executive Coach (Self-Employed) December 2011 Present The coaching helps people: o Develop leadership skills and style. o Manage stress, change, conflict, crisis and time-management. o Develop their sense of professional and emotional self and enhance their selfawareness, personal impact and performance. Develop their communication skills, verbal and non-verbal (i.e. body language). o Communicate with authority and presence and develop confidence to engage with people at all levels of the organization. o Achieve career goals. o Prepare for role or career changes. o Prepare for interviews. Millfields Medium Secure DSPD Unit October 2008 Present Adapted Therapeutic Community for Severely Personality Disordered Offenders. Post qualifying post; Chartered Clinical Psychologist (NHS Band 7) Conduct forensic procedures (clinical interview and actuarial [self-report and structured] assessment) for behavioural (dangerousness, violence, sexual violence) risk assessment and identification of criminogenic needs. Assess and diagnose personality disorders, Axis-1 disorders (e.g. depression, anxiety, OCD) and conduct psychometric neuropsychological assessment. Facilitate psychodynamic psychotherapy groups (twice weekly) and individual psychological (both long and short term) work aimed at addressing a wide range of difficulties including Axis 1 disorders, emotional regulation, interpersonal relationships, attachment difficulties, and offence specific work. Write detailed assessments, and individual therapy reports. Conduct interviews with patients and professionals to provide evidence to aid the Care Programme Approach and other professional/clinical meetings Participate in and chair multidisciplinary case conferences and meeting; monitor individual client s progress, Provide group reflective practice for the Multidisciplinary Team. Supervise assistant and trainee psychologists and other disciplines within both individual and group formats Provide psychological consultancy to non-psychology professionals and agencies (i.e. the Probation Service) Facilitate post incident de-briefings. Develop, implement and deliver staff training programmes. Conduct clinical audits in accordance with clinical governance guidelines. Administration Duties (e.g. diary management, meeting schedule management, typing dictation, and general administrating duties such as letter writing, meeting minute taking, photocopying and faxing documents). Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Placements Older Adult Placement Community and Secure Inpatient Unit: April 2008 September 2008. Carried out neuropsychological assessments and facilitated patient feedback sessions. Consulted and provided psychological input to an Older Adult inpatient unit. Developed and co-facilitated a therapy group for carers of people with dementia. Specialist Forensic Placement Medium Secure Unit: September 2007 March 2008. Carried out neuropsychological, forensic, and risk assessments with mentally disordered adult clients within a medium secure unit Conducted offence focused assessments and individual work. Page 3 of 5
Child/Family and Low Secure Learning Disability Placement: September 2006 September 2007. Conducted individual and family psychology sessions with children (4-18), and adults with learning disabilities, dual diagnosis, complex needs and forensic histories who were accommodated in a low-secure psychiatric facility. Carried out comprehensive cognitive assessments with both populations, wrote detailed reports and feedback the results and recommendations of the reports to the clients and their families, and if appropriate other relevant individuals (for example school or unit nursing staff). Adult Mental Health Placement -Community, Low Secure and Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU): September 2005- September 2006. Conducted individual psychology sessions with adults who have a mental illness and who have offended. Conducted psychometric assessments and used the information combined with interview and collateral documentation to write detailed reports. Attended and participated in multidisciplinary meetings and ward reviews. Conducted and presented the results of two clinical audits. Trainee Clinical Psychologist representative on the Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Academic Committee. Chair Staff-Trainee Liaison Meetings. Rampton High Security Hospital Maximum Security January 2005 September 2005 Assessment Unit Assistant Clinical Psychologist Conducted individual psychology session with clients who were detained under the 1983 Mental Health Act and had committed a criminal offence. Psychologically supported unit nursing staff. Co-facilitated a pre-therapy therapy group. Attended and contributed to multi-disciplinary team meetings and ward rounds. Conducted psychometric assessments and compiled psychological reports. Washington Internship Program October 2003 July 2004 Peer Editor D.C. Rape Crisis Center September 2003 July 2004 Student Counsellor Conducted individual counselling sessions with clients who had suffered sexual abuse or assault. Co-facilitated substance and recovery groups. Worked as a hospital advocate and supported clients through forensic examinations; Answered the Rape Crisis Hotline and provided crisis intervention; Conducted research into different types of therapies used to help sexual assault survivors overcome trauma; Presented a half-day work shop to local healthcare professions on the therapeutic approaches to working with survivors of sexual assault. HMP Whitemoor (Maximum Security) January 2002 - January 2003 (Dangerous and Severely Personality Disorder [DSPD] Unit) - Trainee Forensic Psychologist Conducted forensic procedures for behavioural risk assessment and identification of criminogenic needs. Diagnosed personality disorders. Conducted psychometric assessments. Wrote detailed reports. Conducted interviews with prisoners to provide evidence to aid the sentence planning process. Participated in multidisciplinary case conferences. Page 4 of 5
COMPUTER SKILLS Word Processing, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint; SPSS v. 18; Internet; Intranet; Email; Literary Database Searches, and MaxQDA. FURTHER TRAINING Psychometric Assessment Training Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) Training (November 2008) and Rater-Reliability Training (January 2010). International Personality Disorder Examination Training April 2009. Violence Risk Scale and Violence Risk Scale: Sex Offender Training February 2009. Historical, Clinical and Risk 20 (HCR-20), VRAG, STATIC 99 and IPRF Training April 2002. Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) Short course for facilitators of staff support groups May December 2010. Half Day workshop The individual, the group, and the organisation: Emerging themes of complexity and attachment November 2010 John Howard Centre Two day Relational Issues in Forensic Mental Health March 2010. Anna Freud Centre Mentalization-Based Therapy Basic Training February 2011. Levelab.Com Level A and B Psychometric Training July 2011. British Isles DBT Intensive Training. DBT Intensive Training March 2016 PRSENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS Thursday 3 rd February 2011 Forensic Psychiatry Annual Conference; 2-4 February 2011, Berlin Mentalization and group reflective practice in the management of forensic personality disordered patients. o Roberta Babb, John Canning, Jessica Yakeley, Andrew Williams and Gill McGauley. Friday 21 st May 2011 Forensic Nursing Annual Conference: Manic Claim or Realistic Goal? Therapeutic Work with People with Antisocial Personality Disorder. Tavistock Centre, London Assistance with the Resistance: The Interface of Meaning and Projections Formulation (impf). o Roberta Babb, John Canning and Zaid Maghoo. AWARDS East London NHS Foundation Trust Forensic Directorate employee of the month December 2009 PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS Chartered Member of British Psychological Society. o Member of Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) o DCP Leadership and Management Faculty. o Member of Division of Forensic Psychology. Registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Healthcare Professions Council. Enhanced CRB. Metropolitan Police Vetted REFERENCES- References are available upon request Page 5 of 5