Qualifications & Training

• Registered Managers Award (RMA) NVQ4 - Domiciliary Care, Barnet College

• Learning Disability Unit Primary Healthcare Trust - Barnet
  
  

  • Dysphasia - swallowing difficulties for the elderly and disabled
  • Adult Protection
  • Health Care Planning
  • Person-Centred Care Planning
  • Parkinsonism and Dementia

• Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Training:
  
  

  • Understanding Behaviour we find Challenging
  • Developing an Understanding of Dementia
  • Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
  • Meaningful Activity & Variety in Every Day Life
  • NHS & Social Services Structures - Getting what you want from the right people
  • Feelings-based Care
  • Life History Work
  • The Big Step
  • Communications & Care Giving in Dementia - a Positive Vision Parts 1&2 (24/1 - 9/2/06)
  • Managing a Person-Centred Approach to Care of People with Dementia Feb/Mar 2006

• Line Management NVQ3 - 5

• IBM (SSM) Signature Selling Methodology

• Y2K Compliance NVQ11 & 111 - Prince plc

• Web Technologies NVQ11 & 111 - Microtech

• Information Mapping - TMS Information Solutions

• Dip. Higher Education - Marketing Communications (BA Hons equivalent)

• X5 O’s & x2 A Levels

Brief Profile

Over the last seven years I have been an "informal carer" looking after five relatives; two of whom were suffering from dementia, another with terminal cancer of the oesophagus, one with severe arthritis and another with damage to the spine and shoulder. This experience in addition to managing both the Social Services, nursing and care homes as well as coordinating individual care packages and reviews, has led me to start up my own domiciliary care company specialising in dementia. One of the company’s core values is to encourage and support the elderly in remaining in their own homes and avoid being institutionalised. The other is person-centred care planning - looking at the whole person, their background and personality, rather than just the symptom or disability.

Prior to this I held a channel marketing management position in IBM covering eBusiness Hosting Services and eServers Influencer Channel Programs across EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa).

Before IBM and from 1975 onwards, I established and sold three companies and have been an independent business development and marketing consultant for the IT sector.

Summary of Achievements

• Founder and MD of three companies
• Development and implementation of corporate and product branding
• Advised, produced, directed and account managed numerous public relations and marcoms campaigns
• Won industry award for creativity
• Directed & produced marcoms events throughout the UK, Europe, USA and Africa
• Secured investment funding from the city

Personal Status

Born: December 2nd 1952; Married with two children