I am a Skills For Care Icare Ambassador, I get the privilege to engage my community across Coventry and Warwickshire. I offer my time for local schools, colleges, jobs centres & other professionals to educate them about The Health and Social Care Sector which I Love!

The Health and Social Care sector is the fastest growing sector globally and has been for a few years now. We have an ageing population and we need more people to come into the Health and social Care sector and being an Icare Ambassador is helping us encourage people to work in this fabulous and rewarding sector. I get to engage with primary & secondary schools as well as colleges and talks to a wide age range of students about an industry I love. Championing the industry I work within is a very natural thing for me to do and being able to guide our next generation is such a privilege.

Platinum Care For You is a Domiciliary Care Provider.

My commercial expertise has been challenged during this period having experienced real growing pains, but through this experience I capitalised on my former experience at Barclays where I learned how to provide the highest levels of financial consultancy to a very broad range of clients, both start-ups and SMEs.

Notable highlights:

-I established, developed and overseeing the functions of a family-run Healthcare at home provider, responsible for delivering products and processes to the highest quality.

-Designing and implementing strategic initiatives through commercial, operational and partnership management to increase market share and drive rapid organic growth.

-Building, mobilising and directing over 115 staff, providing services to over 270 client and embedding a culture of robust delivery and high-performance.

-Ensuring strong governance structures, by identifying risk, creating and applying auditing and quality monitoring systems and facilitating an environment of compliance through training.

-Managing cash flow, cost control and full P&L responsibilities, utilising a multi-million budget to exceed revenue goals and increasing turnover growth by 150%.

-Forming and maintaining relationships within the local community, securing framework contracts with Warwickshire County Council, Coventry City Council and the Clinical Commissioning Group.

We are based in Coventry and cover the Coventry & Warwickshire area and surrounding towns & cities.

Platinum Care For You LTD carries Care Quality Commission registrations for Domiciliary Care and is Rated GOOD.

Cera Care is a home care provider, an innovative Tech and Healthcare organisation with major investment to rapidly grow the existing branches and acquire new services nationally. Primary services are domiciliary and live-in care focusing on public sector contracts currently with approx. 10,000 hours per week service delivery and acquisition plans to purchase further domiciliary care organisations.

BUSINESS GROWTH MANAGER (Interim- Approx. 3 months)
As part of the senior operations team, my responsibilities were to grow service delivery across all sites (325 staff), lead branch-based integration for new acquisitions, work with the board on budgeting and growth models for financial stability. In addition to my growth objectives, I had responsibility for the operational success of branch integration and operational growth - exceeding agreed targets. Budgeting responsibilities were between £5-£10M. I have implemented scalable models to drive quality, recruitment & growth for existing branches & £30M acquisition.

-Providing guidance on strategic and governor relations on curriculum, project and funding opportunities, in order to build a consensus between enterprise and employees.

-Liaising with the Heads of curriculum and presenting to the Board, to devise effective strategies and implement projects which encourage professional development within students.

-Advising on how the school can attain benchmarks and collaborating with stakeholders and local community partners to improve educational standards and increase the school’s overall success.

-Navigating funding & demographic challenges and participating in local business planning events to expose students to industry professionals and employees.

-Providing the Board with industry, entrepreneurial and local insight to align a values approach with educational objectives and further quality standards.

I am the Chair of the North Warwickshire Registered Managers Network, the purpose of the network is to engage other registered Health and Social Care managers across North Warwickshire. A Registered Manager/Nominated Individual role can be very isolated so its very important to have a peer network you can tap into and engage with.

This Network offers support to other registered managers, have speakers from local authorities, NICE, CQC, NHS and many more for us to improve our knowledge and share best practices within the industry. The important thing about this Network is that it is a safe space for all registered managers can be very candid about the challenges they face on a daily basis to vent and about best to manage them.

It’s a privilege to engage other providers/registered managers and offer support to improve and shape our working practices.

Yell.com is a multi-media marketing platform, the UK’s leading online business directory. Formerly Yellow Pages.

Acted in an advisory capacity as Marketing Consultant at Yell.com, providing guidance to over 450 clients on strategies development, brand awareness promotion and profitability.

Established and maintained local partnerships and assisted SMEs with turnovers up to £5m, achieving sales targets and generating income values of around £250k per annum.

Following an early career in hospitality which was all focused on sales, service delivery and relationship management this gave me an opportunity to really develop wide ranging business skills.

I oversaw a portfolio of 300 business accounts with annual turnovers over £3m, conducted risk assessments and established key relationships with local professionals and organisations.

I worked with diverse businesses advising on growth, efficiency, finance including risk, capital investment, cash flow, re-financing for up-scaling and downsizing, international payment solutions and operations.

Engaged at board level, to expand and further their understanding of financial strategies.

Recognised as Top 5% nationally for Barclay card sales and ranked within top 10% for performance in 2009 & 2010.

Given my experience in hospitality I was frequently invited to advise on new business start ups and undertook assignments for the Prince’s Trust.