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About Me
Most Recent Position
I was head-hunted in 2009 by Bournemouth & Poole PCT to join the Pan-Dorset Campus closure project to operationally manage a multi-disciplinary team of 10, working to move 50 people with learning disabilities into their own homes with domiciliary support. Also to provide strategic expertise and professional advice to the Board and training to Dorset Healthcare Foundation Trust. During this time I updated the provider selection process used successfully in Cornwall and developed a ‘personalised’ Commissioning process, for which interest was shown by several other Local Authorities.
I continue to run workshops, talks and training to people around the Country on my experiences and learning. I am also co-author of a book called ‘Personalisation – practical thoughts and ideas from people making it happen’ (OLM-Pavilion, 2009).
I am currently working alongside Housing Options to publish a toolkit to be used to enable more people with learning disabilities to agree their own tenancies, taking into consideration the parameters of the Mental Capacity Act.
I continue to be involved with CQC in an advisory role regarding their User Involvement activity and in 2009 chaired their first National User Involvement Conference ‘Effective Communication with People with Complex Needs - Everyone’s Responsibility’.
As part of a small team, I developed a quality review process called Citizen Checkers which will become a social enterprise for people with learning disabilities with expressions of interest to buy the service from Organisations and Local Authorities nationally. This is being hosted currently by Cornwall People First.
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