Catherine Neil

Experience

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  Transworld Publishers

  Feb 1990 - Nov 1990

  Sales and Marketing Secretary
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  Eurotunnel

  Jan 1991 - May 1992

  Investor Relations Secretary
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  Save the Children UK

  May 1992 - Aug 1994

  Staff Fundraiser
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  EF English First

  Feb 1996 - Feb 1998

  English Teacher (TEFL)
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  Bracknell & Wokingham College

  Mar 1998 - Aug 2000

  English Language Teacher and Teacher Trainer
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  University of Cambridge

  Apr 2002 - Nov 2010

  English Oral Examiner

  Examiner of Cambridge oral English exams at First Certificate, Advanced and Proficiency Levels.

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  Parenting Life UK

  Sept 2011 - Dec 2016

  Postnatal Specialist

  Catherine is a fully qualified postnatal specialist and facilitator with over ten years’ experience of working with parents. She has drawn on her professional background in learning and development to design a series of workshops specifically aimed at working parents. These presentations enable participants to explore themes such as needs within families, work/life balance, different parenting styles, attachment and trust.Having trained with and worked for the National Childbirth Trust – the largest parenting charity in the UK - Catherine has a solid grounding in evidence-based practice which ensures that sessions are underpinned with theory. She integrates this knowledge with her skills of facilitating and training. Show less

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  Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

  Sept 2011 - Jul 2022

  Working in a facilitative and communicative capacity, supporting families whose babies are hospitalised in the neonatal unit of the Royal Berkshire Hospital, immediately after birth due to prematurity or illness. These families experience high levels of stress, anxiety and trauma due to the ill health & hospitalisation of their infants; my role involves running support sessions throughout the week for parents, listening and supporting them by their babies' cotside, while liaising with senior clinical staff members over issues and themes raised by parents; feeding back on the wellbeing of families, and helping staff maintain the Unit's family-centred care philosophy by keeping parents' experiences and voices at the centre of their babies' care. The role also involves conducting presentations and workshops to staff to enhance their understanding of families' experiences on the unit as well as support the Unit's Charity in fundraising opportunities by conducting presentations to potential donors. Show less

  • Family Support Practitioner on Buscot Ward, Royal Berkshire Hospital

    Sept 2011 - Jul 2022

  • BIBs Family Support Practitioner

    Sept 2011 - Jul 2022
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  NCT Charity

  Sept 2012 - May 2021

  Assessing trainee Postnatal Practitioners on behalf of NCT and the university of Bedfordshire qualifying for the HE Diploma in Postnatal Facilitation (NCT). Performing reviews of current qualified Postnatal Practitioners for the cpd requirements.

  • Postnatal Practitioner and Assessor

    Jan 2005 - May 2021

  • Branch Co-ordinator

    Sept 2012 - May 2014
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  Human Givens

  Oct 2020 - now

  Counsellor and Psychotherapist