Georgia Farrance

After receiving an MSc in applied clinical psychology, I would like to continue my career in the applied clinical pathway, becoming an assistant psychologist and hopefully an accredited psychologist in the future. I have practical experience as an Autism support worker, as well as academic experience as a research apprentice at the University of Bath.

Resources for Autism

Autism Support Worker - September 2019 - June 2020

Autism Support Volunteer - August 2018 - September 2019

• Worked with children, teenagers and adults across the spectrum, to gain experience of autism, profound learning difficulty and behaviour that can be difficult.
• Gained experience working with people with non-verbal autism as well as social anxiety, OCD and selective mutism.
• Assisted adults in the community as well as children in their homes or at playschemes.
• Responsible for organising activities for service users such as outings, active play, messy play, music and art activities. Assisted clients in accessing equine therapy.
• Worked as part of a multidisciplinary team, including carers, behavioural specialists, speech therapists and psychologists to help service users to achieve their goals.
• Worked within a family support plan towards targets such as managing anxiety, accepting negative emotions and achieving independence. Filled out log sheets after each session to discuss progress with a supervisor and create goals for the next session.

Lee Hecht Harrison Penna

Project Coordinator - October 2015 - December 2016

Responsible for the coordination and governance of a senior management training course serving over 1500 candidates for a leading rail infrastructure company.  This involved:

• Client liaison up to executive level, including dealing with complaints and attending commercial meetings.
• Financial administration for the project, including budget management.
• Acting as the first point of contact for all students, trainers, clients and associates.
• Aggregated and analysed monthly client feedback to improve the project.
• Assisted over 20 associates including psychologists, actors and subject matter experts to ensure the course is delivered to a high standard. This included venue liaison, accommodation and travel arrangement and ad-hoc administrative assistance.
• Simultaneously performed the same role with a number of smaller projects across such verticals as banking, local government and technology. These projects ranged from specific functional training courses to wider change management and communication workshops.

Administrative Assistant - January 2015 - October 2015

• Assisted with the delivery of the aforementioned course. 
• This included calendar organisation, venue liaison, travel and accommodation coordination. and providing ad-hoc administrative support.

Facilities Assistant - November 2014 - January 2015

• Performed reception duties.
• Organised internal and external events.
• Maintained office facilities. 
• Managed inbound post.
• Liaised with maintenance staff.

University of Bath 

2020-2021

MSc Applied Clinical Psychology 

• Dissertation was a quantitative study testing the efficacy of virtual reality meditation software in increasing feelings of relaxation after stress.
• Other coursework included a statistics module, qualitative interview analysis, evaluation and risk assessment of culturally-adapted therapy, exploration of the transdiagnostic approach, idiographic assessment methods and a clinical report using CBT formulation and graded exposure.
   

Research Apprenticeship Scheme 

Extracurricular (2021)

• Evaluated open-ended survey responses relating to a digital behaviour change intervention for COVID-19, which has since been rolled out to GP services across the UK and translated into 20+ languages. 
• Gained experience with qualitative analysis using NVivo software.

The Open University 

2015-2019

BSc (First Class Honours) Psychology

• Dissertation was a cognitive examination of colour recognition; inspired by the Whorf Hypothesis.

University of Edinburgh’s online parapsychology course

Extracurricular (2019)

• Explored human belief systems as well as a broader meta criticism of science and pseudoscience.

St. Bernard’s Catholic Grammar School

2006-2013

• 3 A-levels.
• 10 GCSE’s