Assistant Director Operations
I oversee a number of services in Compass and work with some fantastic people and I am very proud of what they achieve for young people and their families/carers.
My experience
I have a bit of a different background – I worked in horse racing until I was around 30 years old and then I made a slow but steady transition into health and social care. I worked with the homeless in Oxford for around 3 years and at the same time did my counselling training with Relate and did couples counselling for around 4 years.
I then moved in to young persons services and established young people’s substance misuse services in both West Berkshire and West London. And following that, I was lucky enough to work for an organisation where I got chance to develop further young people’s services in both the secure estate and community settings.
Latterly before coming to Compass, I worked for Turning Point for seven years as regional head of operations overseeing several integrated substance misuse services and inpatient detox/rehabs. I then chose to make a move and come back to focus on working across young people’s services and was lucky enough to get the role I have in July 2022.
I live in Leicestershire right on the border of both Rutland and Northamptonshire – I moved here a few years ago from Berkshire and love it because its easy to get to most places from here.
Marathon runner!
I am a keen runner (rather slow but I keep going) and have completed several marathons and ultra marathons. My goal is now to make the cross over to do triathlon, specifically an Iron Man. However, my swimming is holding me back and despite many lessons and hours in the pool I still haven’t quite mastered the front crawl – but I keep persisting in the belief that practice makes perfect (or at least good-enough). I also love reading and have become a big audio book fan over the last few years.. Finally, I absolutely love my food, especially cake and I currently have an obsession with Ben and Jerrys Phish food Ice Cream!