With the CQSW and an Advanced Qualification in Social Work from the Tavistock Clinic, Heather Pritchard has extensive experience as a Social Worker and Child & Adolescent Mental Health Practitioner.

Originally trained as a Probation Officer, she then worked as a Social Work Team Manager for a large Inner London Borough, gaining experience in Child Care and as an Approved Mental Health Social Worker before taking up an Internship in the Children & Families Department of the Tavistock Clinic, an internationally renowned centre of excellence in mental health training, where she obtained the Post Qualifying Award in Social Work.

She has managed Child & Adolescent Services in London and the North West and, for a time, headed up a Children & Families Service in the North East of Scotland.

Recently she has been engaged in social work education, working at Lancaster University as Practice Learning Co-ordinator, Course Convenor for the Social Work Degree Programme, and as a Development Worker for the multi professional training project, co-authoring a report on the way forward for multi professional learning. In 2008 she was commissioned to produce a report on the impact of remote working practices in social work on the work-based practice learning experience of students.

She has also worked as a Problem Based Learning Facilitator for the Medical School at Lancaster.

Throughout her career Heather has maintained and developed her clinical practice via direct work and training and mentoring from senior clinicians.
Some training experiences include:

• Psychodynamic Aspects of Delinquency 1 year, Portman Clinic London.
  
  
• Psychoanalytic Observational studies (of infants & children) 2 years Tavistock Clinic London.
  
  
• Introductory Course In Group Analysis 1 year: Institute of Group Analysis London.
  
  
• Psycho-Dynamic aspects of Practice 1 year Northern School of Psychotherapy Liverpool.
  
  
• Solution Focused Brief Therapy 6 months Robert Gordon University.
  
  

Heather is registered with The General Social Care Council in England and with the Scottish Social Services Council. She is also a member of the National Association of Legal Guardians and Reporting Officers and the Scottish Institute of Human Relations.