Key Specialities:
- Adult Social Care Services: operations and the commissioning environment, including generalist and specialist services, regulatory compliance
- Supported living for vulnerable adults
- Project management: including work on large complex projects with multi-functional teams and major change projects
- Research, analysis and organisation
- Strategy development, business planning and risk management
- Housing market assessment
Knowledge and Experience
- 22 years experience in the housing and social care sector:
- 4 years as an independent consultant
- 2 years as Operations Director of an Adult Social Care and Housing charity
- 7 years in strategic roles in Home Group, one of the largest housing associations in the UK
- 10 in front-line local authority housing management at Newcastle City Council
- Founding director of co-operative social enterprise specialising in workforce design, training, and personalisation for people living with dementia or sensory disability.
- Sustaining and leading a charity through a period of challenging change and transition, to achieve regulatory compliance following a poor inspection. Tendering successfully for generalist contracts and day services contracts with local authorities.
- Working alongside, and providing direct support to, Boards and Executive Team, in strategic planning, risk management and aggregation.
- 12 months secondment to the Urban Policy Unit within the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister during 2002, leading a team of Whitehall Civil Servants and Consultants to deliver one of the key commitments from the Urban White Paper.
- Project Managing Major Organisational Change and Restructuring Project for the Home Group.
- Supporting the development of a new overarching five year Corporate Strategy for Home Group.
- Developing the Live Smart Housing product for Paramount Homes, working with an international cross-functional project team.
- Working on a new approach to risk management with the States of Jersey.
- Developing new approaches to risk management and business planning for the Home Group.
- Developing growth and new business strategies for two RSLs, and a Fit for Purpose Housing Strategy for a local authority, as a consultant.
- Expert housing market and planning policy advisor to developers working on planning appeals.
- Experience as non-executive director and company secretary of two companies.
Qualifications
- M. A. (Oxon)
- B.A. Politics, Philosophy and Economics, St. Peter’s College, Oxford
- Post-Graduate Diploma with Distinction, Housing Policy and Management
- Executive Diploma in Management
Membership of professional bodies
- Chartered Institute of Housing: Member
- Chartered Management Institute: Member