Curriculum Vitae Licette Gus

Curriculum Vitae
Licette Gus
Experience
Qualifications
PgDip. Ed. Res., MSc.
Ed. Psy., Grad.Dip.Ed.,
BA., BSc. Psy.
Professional Bodies
Membership
Health & Care
Professions Council
(HCPC)
Jan 2014 present
CPA
Senior Educational Psychologist
2006 - Dec 2013
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
Educational Psychologist
2000 - present
Private Practice (own) - Educational Psychology
Work
Educational Psychologist
1996 - 2004
Northamptonshire Support Teaching & Educational
Psychology Service
Educational Psychologist
1990 - 1995
Hillingdon, Oxfordshire LEA (UK) and A.C.T.
(Australia)
Secondary School Teacher - Science / Humanities (including 1 year as Head of Science)
HCPC Registration No.
PYL05456
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Association of
Educational
Psychologists (AEP)
Co-ordinated local authority research contribution to national
project (TAMHS Evaluation in Solihull) and completed research on
local projects (Inclusion of parents of pupil’s who attended PRUs)
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Provided supervision of trainee educational psychologists and
participated in group supervision as part of service CPD / meetings
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Developed communication tools for the EPS which improved access
to the community about Solihull EPs. Developed and updated the
website for Solihull EPS, co-produced three versions of EP Service
Guides and produced press releases for Solihull government
publications
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Organised and chaired meetings comprising of a variety of
stakeholders
AEP Membership No.
GUSL2635
British Psychological
Society (BPS) - also
member of Division of
Educational & Child
Psychology (DECP)
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CRB Disclosure No.
001428030742
Worked collaboratively with colleagues from a range of settings;
Children’s Services, Health and Social Care
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CRB Issue Date
04/12/2013
Successful private practice for 13 years working predominantly in
independent preparatory schools
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Developed and implemented an evaluation tool for casework
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Published articles and book reviews in peer edited journals
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Delivered interventions to groups - Mellow Parenting facilitator
working closely with colleagues in Social Care and CAMHS to deliver
the intervention. This involved direct work with mothers and
children experiencing severe difficulties in their relationship with
each other.
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Psychological Interventions
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Mellow Parenting - An intensive 14 week programme based on Attachment theory for a group of
mothers; some of whom were referred from or known to social care, all of whom experienced
mental health issues.
Personal Construct Psychology
Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Approaches
Training Delivered
As a result of consultation and negotiation with Stakeholders, Licette has designed and delivered
training across a range of settings and for various groups of people.
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TaMHS in your school : training for school Governors of a Local Authority
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Supporting Adopted Children with Special Educational Needs : a training session for the parents
of adopted children planned in collaboration with Social Care.
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Evaluating your TaMHS Project - Evaluation Support for Schools : a session given to all schools
who participated in the TaMHSproject in a local authority, attended by Head Teachers and
TaMHS leads.
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Managing Aspects of Difficult Behaviour of Children with ASD in a Secondary School : an
awareness raising session during a compulsory staff meeting at comprehensive secondary school.
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Solution Focussed Talk for Learning Support Assistants : two 60-minute sessions delivered to
learning support assistants at a secondary school.
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Developing Auditory Blending Skills in Early Readers : session delivered to all Pre-Prep. school
staff at an Independent Preparatory School.
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Managing and Supporting Pupils with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (Part 1) and
Building Progression into Individual Education Plans for Pupils with Behavioural Difficulties
(Part 2) : two 90-minute sessions delivered to the senior management and special needs staff at a
comprehensive secondary school.
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ABC Approach to Understanding Behaviour : two three-hour sessions delivered to classroom
support assistants as part of a certificate for behaviour support. Accredited by University College
of Northampton.
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Active Listening - Questioning : for specialist learning support teachers in a local authority.
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Independent On-task Behaviour : for staff of a lower school containing a unit for children with
speech and language difficulties.
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Helping Children with Speech Sound Problems in the Lower School : for staff in a school who
worked with children with special educational needs.
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Training Delivered continued
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Children with Speech and Language Difficulties in the Secondary School : part of an Advisory
and Inspection Service’s course for learning support assistants.
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Records of Achievement for Children with Physical Difficulties and Multi-Sensory Impairments :
for staff of a special school for children with physical difficulties.
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Reading - A course for school support assistants - delivered as part of a six-day course for
learning support assistants.
Research
Licette has designed, implemented, evaluated and written up research and made it available across a
variety of settings. Research includes:
The Solihull Targetted Mental Health in Schools Project - an evaluation report for the Council.
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Helping children struggling with literacy- the views and feelings of parents - research
incorporating the results of a parental focus group.
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On the road to the PRU: parents feelings of inclusion - research which developed and used a
structured interview for parents and contributed to the structure and thinking behind a new
Secondary School Behaviour policy in the Borough.
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Evaluation of Mellow Parenting Programme - this contributed to CAMHS evaluation of the
programme.
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Evaluating the impact of beginning phonological instruction with grapheme-phoneme word
identification skills in Year 1 / 2 children - MSc thesis.
Education
2011
Birmingham University
Postgraduate Diploma in Research in Education
1996
Institute of Education - University of London
MSc. Educational Psychology
1989
South Australian College of Advanced Education
Grad.Dip.Ed
1988
Adelaide University
BA. History and Italian Language and Literature
1987
Adelaide University
BSc. Psychology & Biochemistry
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Publications
Autism : Promoting Peer Understanding in Educational Psychology in Practice, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2000.
RAFA : A short guide to evaluation in schools (2011)

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