Charli Hinton

With a foundation in Mental Health Nursing from the University of Essex, my healthcare journey began with a placement within the East Home Treatment Team in Colchester. In this, I worked alongside a mental health nurse, shadowing crisis interventions and contributing to report-writing, risk assessment, record-keeping, and multi-disciplinary meetings. My deepened interest in mental health care then propelled me to earn a first-class BSc Hons in Psychology with Counselling from The Open University.

Over the past five years, I've committed to supporting individuals with Down Syndrome and Autism, exemplifying creativity, adaptability, and a deep understanding of personalised care. As a motivated and conscientious graduate with strong interpersonal skills, I'm eager to expand into a role that ideally offers post-graduate training, clinical supervision, and the opportunity to make a genuine impact in mental healthcare.

Would you be interested in discussing new opportunities? If so, I'd love to connect!

Whilst studying 'Mental Health Nursing' at the University of Essex (Colchester) in early 2018, I completed a placement with the NHS East Home Treatment Team, who are a team of consultants, mental health nurses, support workers and occupational therapists. 
 

My responsibilities entailed:
- Working alongside and shadowing qualified mental health nurses in the field. 
- Undertaking handovers, writing out care plans and risk assessments for vulnerable patients. 
- Engaging in and assisting mental health nurses with therapeutic and evaluative conversations in patient's homes. 
- Reporting to and liasing with consultants about patients' wellbeing and whether medications required reviewing based on our evaluations.
 

In late 2018 I began work as an agency support worker for Better Healthcare. Better Healthcare Services is a leading Social Care and Healthcare provider whose services encompass many aspects of care ranging from short call visits to 24-hour care, live-in care, and specialist care. 

My responsibilities entailed:
- Providing nursing assistant services, emotional and physical support, and catering to daily needs. 
- Caring for service users with various conditions, including dementia, down syndrome, autism, prader-willi syndrome, aspergers, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, hearing impairment, deafness and speech impairment. 
- Managing volatile service users in challenging circumstances.

In 2019, whilst working for Better Healthcare, I was asked to start with Dimensions full time as a support worker. Dimensions is an organisation that supports people with learning disabilities, autism, behaviours of distress and those with complex health needs. In particular, the supported living home I work in caters to individuals with autism and down-syndrome. 

My responsibilities entail:
- Providing emotional and physical support and catering to the daily needs of service users. 
- Encouraging the development of personal and life skills through engagement in hobbies and activities. 
- Multi-disciplinary working that entails communicating with other healthcare professionals as well as the service user and their family to ensure the highest standard of care, adjusting support plans as required.
- Planning person-centred support to ensure that each individual is communicated with effectively, is actively engaged in their own support and receives support based on their individual needs. 
- Offering companionship to ensure a normal and enjoyable life for the service users.

 

GCSE’s: Notre Dame High School

• Maths (C)
• Science (C)
• Additional Science (C)
• English Language (B)
• Religious Education (C)

A-Levels: City of Norwich School 

• English Literature (C)
• Psychology (D)

Bachelors Degree: The Open University 

• BSc Psychology with Counselling (First-Class Hons).