Experience and Qualifications

BSL/English Interpreter
Freelance
2017 - present

BSL/English Interpreter
Freelance
2008 - 2012

Trainee BSL/English Interpreter
Sign Solutions / Freelance
2007 - 2008

Chair of the Board of Trustees
British Society for Mental Health and Deafness
2009 - 2011

Residential Social Worker
RNID Poolemead Centre
1988 - 1992
Working with deaf and deaf-blind people in BSL

Associate Fellow
British Psychological Society
2014 - 2017

Chartered Clinical Psychologist
Exeter Deaf Academy
2009 - 2017
Working in BSL with deaf children and young people

Chartered Clinical Psychologist
National Deaf Services
1997 - 2007
Working in BSL with deaf adults with mental health problems

Trainee Clinical Psychologist
University of Surrey
1994 - 1997
Specialising in deafness and mental health

Assistant Psychologist
Homewood NHS Trust
1993 - 1994

Interpreting (BSL/English)
NVQ Level 4
CACDP
2008

Interpreting (BSL/English)
Unit INTE1
CACDP
2008

Interpreting (BSL/English)
Unit INTD1
CACDP
2008

Interpreting (BSL/English)
Unit INTC1
CACDP
2008

Interpreting (BSL/English)
Unit INTB1
CACDP
2008

Interpreting (BSL/English)
Unit INTA1
CACDP
2008

BSL (NVQ 4)
CACDP
2005

CPsychol Clinical Psychology
University of Surrey
1994 - 1997

MA(Hons) Psychology
University of St Andrews
1988 - 1992

Second Arts Exemptions in English, and Psychology
University of St Andrews
1989 - 1990

First Arts Exemptions in English, Logic & Metaphysics, and Psychology
University of St Andrews
1988 - 1990

First Arts Pass in Moral Philosophy
University of St Andrews
1988 - 1989