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I am a senior leader in UK social care, with 20+ years experience in both the private and public sector. My background is specialising in supporting people with behaviours of concern, and expertise in complex + profound support needs + associated behaviours. I run my own company, finix, a leadership and behaviour consultancy. I have led a range of progressive and transformative services in the UK, specifically in the area of supporting Transforming Care/LDA cohorts, by designing and providing services to negate the need for step up in to, or facilitate a faster step down from, secure tier 4 provision. I have strategically overseen services for Children (OFSTED regulated), as well as adults, and older people (CQC regulated), as well as many non regulated services, including many enablement and re-ablement services, that have saved millions year on year through tracked cost avoidance and/or cost reduction. I have led workforces of up to 2,500 (headcount), 2,000 FTE, and an annual revenue budget of up to £36.2m net (£59.1m gross), as well as smaller capital budgets. I have continually delivered underspends on revenue budgets. I have a track record of excellent regulatory compliance with both OFSTED and CQC, but mainly CQC. I have led services to achieve "outstanding" with OFSTED, and "increased effectiveness" on interim inspections, and adult/older peoples services to achieve "good" in all domains, with elements of "outstanding", as well as achieving "outstanding" overall, within CQC. I successfully led Local Authority In House services from around 50% "requires improvement" when I joined, to achieve 100% minimum "good" in all domains, over 4 years. Similarly, I was the first region nationally to achieve a minimum of "good" in every service as a performance coach at Dimensions, and then as an Operations Director for them we were the first region nationally to achieve an overall "outstanding" with CQC. I am trained in PBS/functional behaviour assessment, NLP, non verbals, and coaching / theraputic counselling techniques. I created the "life wheel", a ground breaking system that supports people to break down their lives into key domains, and tangibly track their quality of life, and work over time with support, to increase their quality of life, choice and control, and independence. In my spare time I love to run, hike/climb mountains (this has even taken me to Everest Base Camp and Kilimanjaro), travel, + spend time with 2 daughters - Sophia + Nicole. I am fascinated by human behaviour, psychology, + mindset, and this is a huge passion of mine.