Experience

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  TimelessTime Ltd

  • United Kingdom

  • Managing Director | Management Consultant

    • Oct 2009 - Present
    • United Kingdom

    Responsible for the business development, marketing, and implementation of consulting projects in organisational development, management practices and human resource management.

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  Newick C E Primary School

  • Newick

  • School Governor

    • Nov 2015 - Present
    • Newick

    Providing strategic leadership and accountability within the school. Responsible for raising school standards by ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction; by holding the head to account for pupil performance and by overseeing school finances.Chair of Governors from 2016 to 2019

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  Dogs Trust

  • Head office in London with sites across the UK and abroad

  • Head of HR

    • Jun 2008 - Sep 2009
    • Head office in London with sites across the UK and abroad

    Reporting to the CEO. Responsible for eight direct reports (business partners, training managers, payroll manager and HR administration managing HR, training and the payroll function across the largest dog-only welfare charity in the UK. Company size 600, 18 locations in 3 countries and mobile staff. Payroll size £10 million.

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  Eaton-Williams

  • Kent and Midlands

  • Group HR Manager

    • May 2006 - Jun 2008
    • Kent and Midlands

    Reporting to the CEO and part of the executive team, responsible for the development and deployment of the total HR function within a 350 man, multi-sited international provider of specialist indoor climate control products and services.

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  Connexions Kent & Medway

  • Kent & Medway

  • Head of Personnel & Development

    • Nov 2004 - May 2006
    • Kent & Medway

    A member of the senior management team reporting to the CEO. Responsible for the development and deployment of the HR and training functions within a multi-sited government funded service, providing free impartial and confidential advice, guidance and support to young people. Responsible for a team of seven including HR and training managers, delivering people management services to 300 staff located in 14 offices across Kent and Medway.

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  Management Tools and Resources Ltd

  • Sussex

  • HR Management Consultant

    • Jul 2000 - Nov 2004
    • Sussex

    Director responsible for providing HR management services across the South East. Responsible for business development including the scoping, quoting and implementation of projects and the provision of post-project client support. Acted as peripatetic HR manager for SMEs and larger organisations across the South-East and undertook several long-term projects for Thales, Philips and Virgin Atlantic.

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  Thales

  • Crawley

  • Senior HR Officer

    • 1997 - 2000
    • Crawley

    Provision of HR and recruitment services for 700 staff. Responsible for seven direct and three indirect reports. Security cleared by Defence Vetting Agency to ‘Secret’.

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  Berry Associates

  • Cambridgeshire and Sussex

  • HR Management Consultant

    • May 1992 - Oct 1997
    • Cambridgeshire and Sussex

    Worked a sole trader to facilitate relocation in connection with husband's career, and to provide childcare whilst children were preschool age once relocated. Managed HR and recruitment projects for SMEs on Cambridge Science Park. Undertook a six-month interim role as Deputy HR Manager for Hinchingbrooke Hospital NHS Trust. Acted as a peripatetic HR manager, providing support through specific projects and service level agreements to SME principals across the South East.

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  Ciba-Geigy

  • Cambridge

  • Senior Personnel Officer

    • Feb 1985 - Sep 1992
    • Cambridge

    Responsible for four direct reports covering HR, training, payroll and health/welfare, cost centre budget of £120,000 and payroll of £4.5m.

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  City Of Ely Community College

  • Ely, Cambs

  • Teacher of Science

    • Sep 1981 - Sep 1982
    • Ely, Cambs

    One-year contract as head of rural studies. Teaching science subjects to pupils aged 11 to 18.