Service Development Lead

Salisbury, United Kingdom

March 2022 - Present

Five Rivers is a leading independent Social Enterprise that works with children who are in need of specialist care throughout the U.K. We were established in 1989 to provide a secure environment with as much normality as possible for young people who have experienced abuse, neglect and abusive relationships or for children who are in need of specialist residential care. Over two decades we have developed our ‘Five Fundamental’ services, each of which is principle-based and remains integral to our complete child care provisions. Five Rivers provides these high-impact sector-leading services in locations throughout England and Ireland. We promote a strong, pragmatic philosophy, shared by all of our professional and experienced staff, that each child or teenager is an individual in their own right, with their own unique sets of difficulties. Service environments are selected to provide safety, warmth and security and our aim is to offer children and young people high-impact professional support, which helps them to work through their challenges and difficulties. This unique approach over the last twenty five years has enabled us to cement ourselves at the forefront of a sensitive sector. Five Rivers strives to ensure that the young people we work alongside have access to the right programmes for all-round development, thereby offering placement opportunities with endless choices during the planning process. As a leading Social Enterprise we hold Investors in People (IIP) status and work with a wide range of national organisations including the National Fostering Network and the British Association of Adoption and Fostering (BAAF). We are also a member of the Social Care Association (SCA), The Social Enterprise Coalition (SOC) and many more associations that support our values of child care practice. Turning Children’s Lives Around Through High-Impact Sector-Leading Services

Clinical Psychologist

March 2020 - March 2022

Clinical Psychologist

September 2018 - March 2020

Lecturer

September 2018 - September 2019

Trainee Clinical Psychologist

September 2015 - August 2018

Research Methods Tutor

June 2013 - December 2015

Senior Support Worker and Family Liaison

June 2010 - August 2015

Assistant Psychologist

June 2014 - July 2015

Family Intervention Worker

February 2012 - June 2014

Pastoral Support Worker

September 2012 - June 2013

Research Assistant

June 2012 - June 2013

Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) Tutor

September 2008 - September 2011