Working with individuals, teams and organisations to develop personal skills and maximise performance .

Learning and Development Manager Salary £40,971
April 2002 – Dec 2006
Leading, developing and managing the Council’s overall approach for employee and member training and development activities, including the development of Council-wide policies, procedures and practices.

Leading an organisational development steering group with the task of managing performance management , investors in people and all major cultural change programmes.

Training and Development Advisor Salary £29,000
May 2000 – April 2002
Providing strategic training and development advice to the Chief Executive.
Advising on the development of formal partnership arrangements with external training providers, and creating leadership development programmes and effective needs based training for all staff.

Recruitment and Training Officer
March 1998 – May 2000
Developing a recruitment and staff development strategy within North Somerset, a new unitary Authority with approximately 6500 staff.

Designing and delivering learning programmes for manual, administrative and management staff across the business. Supporting and advising managers on personnel and development issues. Preparing quality assurance documents for competitive tenders and developing and controlling quality systems in line with the principles of ISO 9002 and TQM.

Executive Officer Training / Further Education Liaison Officer
Managing a training administration team, responsible for the organisation, delivery and evaluation of training programmes. Selecting, training and monitoring a large team of in house trainers.
Career development counselling and liaison with training colleges to assist staff with personal and career development. A key achievement being the development of a competency based appraisal system.

Higher Executive Officer - Business Delivery
Managing a training delivery team, ensuring that learning needs were met within budgets.

Internal Training Consultant
Working with senior managers to identify learning and development needs and developing creative and effective bespoke programmes. Facilitating team-building activities across Departments.