Ankita Guchait
 

Healthcare Assistant at Southwest London & St. George's Mental Health Trust

(Jan 2023 to Present)

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• To carry out a number of designated tasks, some of which will involve direct care, in support of and under the supervision of a registered nurse.

• Work as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team.

• Following appropriate training and assessment, undertake clinical and non-clinical duties in support of the registered nurse.

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Assistant Psychologist at Central & Northwest London NHS Foundation Trust London

(Jan 2022 to Present)

 

The Centre for Anxiety Stress & Trauma coordinates mental health screenings with the Council, the Home Office and referrals for newly-arrived Afghan and Ukrainian evacuees. Main responsibilities include:

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• Conducting refugee mental health screenings for all new arrivals at their bridge hotels in London

• Conducting TSQ (Trauma Screening Questionnaire), PHQ-9: Depression scale, GAD-7:Generalised Anxiety scale for new arrivals (aged 18 and older) and providing appropriate mental health referrals as needed.

• Facilitating the monitoring of and reporting of the resource which is to provide groups and one-to-one sessions to benefit the well-being of the workforce in the UK.

• Coordinating health plan selection and liaising with council staff who are having difficulty accessing services.

• Developing and signposting healthcare, and community resources tailored to each new arrival/family

 

Assistant Psychologist at Central & Northwest London NHS Foundation Trust London

(Jun 2021 to Present)

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• Supporting and enhancing the psychological care of service users in a tier 3 service with learning disabilities and carrying out duties under supervision such as jointly conducting specialist psychological assessments, and developing formulations and interventions, under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist

• Assisting in collating and analysing service data, waiting lists and any other duties as delegated by the Clinical Supervisor

• Collecting, analysing and reporting the Routine Outcome Measures (ROMs) data and supporting clinicians in its implementation

• Conduction of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit projects, Quality Improvement (QI) Projects teaching and project work

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Informational Reviewer at Epilepsy Action UK                                       (Mar 2019 to Present)

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• Writing, fact-checking, and auditing with the publication team for research manuscripts and education content.

• Delivering feedback and critical evaluations of proposals, literature search for 100+ feature stories and columns.

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Research Assistant at Oregon Health & Science University (USA)    (May 2016 to Aug 2018)

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The ADHD Research Study (IRB 4817, 6258) is a federally funded (NIH) study of school-age children which focuses on causal mechanisms in ADHD. Some of the duties include:

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• Conducting adult cognitive, achievement, and physiological tests with children and their parents. 

• Experience with state-of-the-art software for data entry and analysis.

• Administering child and parent cognitive and academic tests (WISC, WIAT, WAIS, WRAT, etc)

• Conducting child physiological readings and computerised tasks; scoring and data entry; 

• Other general laboratory duties in support of the goals of the study.

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