Mental Health Reflective Account

As an individual with extensive personal, voluntary and professional experience entailing mental distress, I am certain I possess the knowledge and attributes to succeed in this role, overcome discrimination and empower service users to achieve positive, desired outcomes during their recovery journey.
My sandwich carer background, volunteering and positions within diverse social care settings makes me competent engaging with, protecting and enhancing the welfare of an array of vulnerable, marginalised adults and their families. This invaluable skill, coupled with academia studies, reinforced how wider societal factors, like the aging population, financial squeeze and political push away from the state, easily become mental illhealth drivers

This placement equipped me to really develop in a professional capacity. It confirmed I am both capable of working as a team player and individually, to balance my own workload whilst assist colleagues. Key to multi-tasking success was my sound organisational and time management skills that allow for unexpected work and prioritisation of competing deadlines. Being flexible, helpful, comfortable and decisive in order to work autonomously meant I slotted into this extremely pressurised and fast-paced setting. Nevertheless, even reasonably self-assured, whenever in doubt, I always sought clarity or guidance from experienced colleagues or supervision. I found that both sources of support greatly contributed to my reflective practice and identified my developmental needs and

In this instance a carefully thought-out, mutually agreed safety plan stipulated that she will firstly have him police-checked to minimise risk to herself and her children. This realistic agreement balances care versus control in line with various legislation by respecting the mother’s right to a private life as a person with decision-making capacity and her own needs, but at the same time provides reassurance that those vulnerable are suitably