About
Jan is a highly skilled and dedicated professional with demonstrated success in providing exceptional care, empathy, formulations and implementing effective care/treatment plans for adults and families with a variety of health and mental health problems, specialising in neuropsychology. She is a compassionate professional with expertise in effective communication, building relationships and maintaining strict confidentiality.
She has a demonstrated track record of success working with diverse populations in one-to-one and group settings. Jan is also an effective motivator for change, as well as a communicator and advocate with an inherent ability to manage many types of personalities, defuse stressful situations, proactively resolve issues and achieve challenging goals.
She also demonstrates exemplary leadership, as proven by service establishment, development, management, staff training, supervision of trainee and assistant psychologists, management and group facilitation. Jan is also a co-ordinator and developer of business plans and service level agreements (SLAs) for funding of services, with local and national commissioners. She can manage budgets and services efficiently, and develop and co-ordinate management reporting, auditing and service development.
Position at Priory
I have been working with private outpatients across the lifespan and have run various groups within private inpatient settings for over 2 years.
I also worked as the family therapist a number of years ago within the psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) when it first opened.
I am also a locum psychologist at the Vines in Crowborough, which is a resident home for adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and neurodegenerative conditions.
Research interests
As a supervisor of trainee clinical psychologists, I have been involved with the use of narrative therapy with clients with neurodegenerative disorders: the examination of trauma for the precursor for neurodegenerative disorders.
During training, I also examined condom use in men who have sex with men.
Referrer perspectives on a new local specialised neuropsychiatry and psychological therapized: A thematic evaluation (2013). J. Meuller, Rich J, Medford, N. Clinical Psychology Forum (231).
Neuropsychology chapter in Clinical Psychology (Topics in Applied Psychology). G Davey, N. Lake & A. Whittington. Routledge.