Kirsty is a First Class Forensic Psychology graduate currently undertaking an MSc in Clinical Forensic Psychology at King’s College London. She is seeking a Teaching Assistant role where she can apply her clinical knowledge, safeguarding awareness and experience supporting vulnerable children and individuals with complex needs.
With experience in local authority supervised contact, autism diagnostic reporting and an NHS honorary assistant psychologist role, Kirsty offers schools a highly thoughtful SEN and SEMH support profile.
Education & Qualifications
- MSc Clinical Forensic Psychology: King's College London
- BSc (Hons) Forensic Psychology with Investigation, First Class Honours: University of West London
- A Levels: Mathematics (B), Business Studies (B), Psychology (B): Simon Langton Girls Grammar School
- GCSEs: 8 subjects including English Language (8) and Mathematics (8): Simon Langton Girls Grammar School
Experience Summary
Kirsty’s experience is especially relevant to schools supporting pupils with SEN, SEMH and complex needs. She has worked in sensitive, safeguarding-led settings and brings strong observation, reporting, emotional support and multi-agency collaboration skills.
- Supervises contact sessions between children and families within local authority care, maintaining safeguarding at all times.
- Produces detailed, court-standard reports on family interactions.
- Supports children with complex developmental and communication needs, including non-verbal communication.
- Drafted autism diagnostic reports and compiled developmental histories at The Autism Shed.
- Delivers CBT-informed sessions focused on anxiety and sleep in an NHS honorary assistant psychologist role.
- Participates in multidisciplinary meetings, risk assessments, relapse prevention planning and clinical reviews.
Key Strengths
- SEN, SEMH and complex needs support
- Safeguarding and child protection awareness
- Autism diagnostic support experience
- Emotional regulation and behaviour support strategies
- Observation, assessment and report writing
- Multi-agency collaboration
- Calm professional judgement in sensitive settings
- Strong academic psychology background