Experience

Resources for Autism

• United Kingdom
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Dec 2019 - Present



Norwood

• United Kingdom
• Fundraising
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Head of Children Services

  • Feb 2013 - Dec 2019

  - To provide leadership and strategic direction to three different service areas covering Social Care, Family Support, Psychological Therapies and Education across London. - To hold operational oversight of eleven different teams working with children and young people, namely, three social work teams, two family support teams, a psychotherapy team and five Education Teams. - Built strategic alliances with Local Authorities, Schools and other voluntary organisations ensuring our services are visible, accessible and relevant.- To provide line management to 3 Service Managers (Social Care/Therapies/Education), a Business Manager and a Quality Assurance Officer.- To develop and implement a 5 year Service Strategy for Children Services across Social Care, Education and Therapies Teams.- To set agreed performance targets for each service area, consistent with the principles of person centered service provision, excellence and financial sustainability. - Responsible for the sound financial management of all services, ensuring that budgets are set and reviewed and that all costs are managed within the agreed budgetary framework. Current budget responsibility of £3.2 M



NSPCC

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 700 & Above Employee

• ChildLine Service Manager London and South East

  • Jun 2007 - Jan 2013

  • Driving substantial change by project managing a number of high level initiatives, heading up 5 senior staff to deliver safe practice on time and within budget• Overhauling and developing policies in line with medium and long-term strategic objectives, working closely with senior executives and practitioners to agree plans and monitor progress• Networking extensively with large donors as well as building productive relationships and partnerships with other organisations to include Police, Social Services, Overseas Helplines and other NGO’s. • Accountable for ensuring full compliance with child protection requirements, leading strict enforcement of 100% safe practice based on specific performance indicatorrs and targets



Landmark Training

• United Kingdom
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager

  • Jan 2005 - Jun 2007

  • Spearheaded a highly successful mentoring project, engaging private sector employers with a strategy for empowering young people excluded from learning opportunities• Identified, recruited and developed employer mentors, ensuring continuous support was provided to ensure complete success for all stakeholders• Established child-protection and safeguarding policies for the project, reinforced with a robust for monitoring and evaluation • Spearheaded a highly successful mentoring project, engaging private sector employers with a strategy for empowering young people excluded from learning opportunities• Identified, recruited and developed employer mentors, ensuring continuous support was provided to ensure complete success for all stakeholders• Established child-protection and safeguarding policies for the project, reinforced with a robust for monitoring and evaluation



Brighton & Hove City Council

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Looked After Children Practitioner

  • Jan 2003 - Apr 2006

  • Direct therapeutic work with children and young people in care towards placement stability.• Support and supervise contact between birth parents and their child as part of a legal assessment process which would ascertain child returning to their care or proceed with adoption • Direct therapeutic work with children and young people in care towards placement stability.• Support and supervise contact between birth parents and their child as part of a legal assessment process which would ascertain child returning to their care or proceed with adoption