Health and charities fund role together
HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE and two local charities have pooled resources to help fund a new assistant psychologist.
Emily Barrasin has taken on the role for the next three years as a result of greater collaboration between the committee, Headway Guernsey and the Pink Ladies.
Miss Barrasin, who has experience working within mental health as well as on an oncology project locally, splits her time working for the charities two days a week each and one day for Health & Social Care.
Two months into the post, she said workstreams had been progressing very well and the flexible structure of the role worked effectively.
'It is a completely new role, I am not taking over from anyone, so it has been really interesting and gives me a lot of freedom to make it what it needs to be with guidance from everyone else.
'With my time at Headway, I have introduced a new module. It's about increasing the support for carers and doing a lot more on physical adjustments and acceptance.
'The other days, I am working on a variety of projects with oncology, from audit and evaluation projects, research projects, to looking at what we are currently offering and working on the CanMove project, which is also charity-funded.'
