Experience

Ategi

• United Kingdom
• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Business Development

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  Ategi is a social care charity with a mission to support people to live their best lives, their way. Ategi runs services across England and Wales. I am responsible for business development, marketing and communications and fundraising functions for Ategi. As part of the SLT, I am also involved in leadership of aspects of the strategy including around co-production and digital, Shared Lives carer recruitment and development of new initiatives. Ategi is a social care charity with a mission to support people to live their best lives, their way. Ategi runs services across England and Wales. I am responsible for business development, marketing and communications and fundraising functions for Ategi. As part of the SLT, I am also involved in leadership of aspects of the strategy including around co-production and digital, Shared Lives carer recruitment and development of new initiatives.



THE THOMAS MORE PROJECT

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Sep 2016 - Feb 2021

  The Thomas More Project is a registered Adult Social Care Charity supporting adults with learning disabilities to live the lives they choose. Achievements include: • Supporting the board in strategic review, horizon scanning, options appraisal and partnership working resulting in significant long-term change in strategic direction focussed on improving our ability to provide support that further promotes independence. • Reviewing the vision, mission, values, behaviours and re-write of Memorandum and Articles of Association to bring these up to date. • Setting up robust governance structures including risk management, delegations, compliance monitoring, board reporting, trustee recruitment. • Renegotiation of all staff contracts and incentives – attractive package for staff, affordable for TMP. • Overseen establishment of new IT systems, improved data collection, auditing and HR records, overhauled payroll process and implementing GDPR compliant practice. • Renegotiating contacts and fundraising, increasing income and securing surplus budgets. Oversight of financial management. • Overseen review of care and support process, auditing and more recently greater technical integration with health. Our recent CQC report was incredibly positive our inspector’s words ‘the best this service has been’ with many comments on the high-quality support, as we now strive for outstanding. • Leading the organisation through the intensity of the pandemic, with rapid changes in policy, practice and systems, restructure of staffing across services, advocating for people with learning disabilities and engaging widely with other health and social care organisations and professionals. • Spokesperson for the charity including local BBC radio around COVID-19. Show less



Kahungunu Whanau Services

• Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Consultant - Homelessness Strategy

  • Feb 2016 - Apr 2016

  • Strategic alignment of governmental and organisational strategies with the Wellington strategy to end homelessness. • Identification of recommendations for Chief Executives across government (Ministries of Justice, Health, Social Development, Child Youth and Families, Business, Innovation and Enterprise, Corrections, Police) District Health Board and council and community organisations to implement the homelessness strategy. • Strategic alignment of governmental and organisational strategies with the Wellington strategy to end homelessness. • Identification of recommendations for Chief Executives across government (Ministries of Justice, Health, Social Development, Child Youth and Families, Business, Innovation and Enterprise, Corrections, Police) District Health Board and council and community organisations to implement the homelessness strategy.



Dwell Housing Trust

• Acting Chief Executive

  • Jul 2015 - Dec 2015

  Acting Chief Executive for a community housing organisation for people on low income or in need. Key achievements:Operational and strategic management including reporting to board. Key work included: • Leading a staffing restructure • Leading a successful response to Charities Services review of Dwell’s charitable status • Negotiating a contract to tenancy manage newly built properties for a Māori/ Indigenous trust• Moved forward options for takeover of another small charity including meeting with that charity, taking legal advice, preparing decision papers for the board. • Reporting to the board including preparing board papers• Seeing the organisation through the audit• Writing a proposal for Wellington City Council to take over management of some of their homes. Show less

• Consultant - Service Review and Planning

  • Apr 2015 - Aug 2015

  Review of Dwell's group-living home for people with poor mental health, and development of options paper for service development for Dwell Housing Trust Board.



Wellington City Council

• New Zealand
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant, Community Services

  • Sep 2014 - Mar 2015

  Providing maternity cover for WCC's work around homelessness particularly including supporting ongoing development of Te Mahana: Ending Homelessness in Wellington, A Strategy for 2014-2020; and Revising Social and Recreational Fund Contract Funding to ensure grants given support delivery of Te Mahana. Providing maternity cover for WCC's work around homelessness particularly including supporting ongoing development of Te Mahana: Ending Homelessness in Wellington, A Strategy for 2014-2020; and Revising Social and Recreational Fund Contract Funding to ensure grants given support delivery of Te Mahana.



Capital and Coast District Health Board

• Wellington, New Zealand

• Practice Development Leader

  • Oct 2010 - Dec 2014

  Development and leadership of Te Roopu Aramuka Wharoaroa. This is an innovative multi-agency partnership addressing homelessness. Aramuka provides strengths-based case coordination for those amongst the homeless community who are furthest from having their needs met. Aramuka also seeks to change the wider systems blockages that face people in this community. Development and leadership of Te Roopu Aramuka Wharoaroa. This is an innovative multi-agency partnership addressing homelessness. Aramuka provides strengths-based case coordination for those amongst the homeless community who are furthest from having their needs met. Aramuka also seeks to change the wider systems blockages that face people in this community.



Regional Public Health

• Wellington, New Zealand

• Project Leader (Consultant)

  • Nov 2010 - Nov 2011



Toynbee Hall

• United Kingdom
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Wellbeing

  • Mar 2007 - Jun 2010

  Strategic and operational leadership and development of programme including Safe Exit, Dignify, LinkAge Plus, Older People's Lunch Club/ Day Centre and Surma

• Safe Exit Coordinator

  • Oct 2004 - Mar 2007

  Developed Safe Exit as an innovative, award-winning partnership project for women in prostitution.