I have been involved as a SfLQI Facilitator for the North East, Yorkshire and Humberside and the East Midlands, supporting providers to embed Skills for Life throughout the whole organisation including identifying professional development opportunities to meet an organisations needs.

My experience includes working for private providers covering National Frameworks, including NVQs and embedding SfL/Keyskills, working within prisons, supporting the writing of bids, working on quality kitemarks including PQASSO, Community and Legal Services, MATRIX, IiP and the Common Inspection Framework and embedding Skills for Life."""""

Continuous Quality Improvement, development of strategic and operational policy and practice, including the SAR process, three year development and continuous quality improvement plans, through my role as a QIA/LSN Support for Success Quality Improvement Consultant and with the Skills for Life QI

ESOL specialist support

Key Skills support, embedding into Apprenticeship Frameworks, NVQ’s, vocational qualifications and development of teaching and learning strategies

Embedded, contextualised learning and e learning, I have already been heavily involved in these areas, as a result of my consultancy posts with the DfES Standards Unit Teaching and Learning Teams, as a critical reader for the contextualised embedded learning resources and with my Skills for Life Advisors post with NCFE Awarding Body, including working with a QCA Embedded Learning Pilot project for Skills for Life/Key Skills

Development of policy and practice, relating to teaching and learning, including initial assessment,, induction processes, schemes of work, session planning, differentiation, target setting, review, monitoring and evaluation of learner progress """

A former Senior Manager in a medium sized FE College with responsibility for SfL provision.

Recent consultancy experience includes acting as Regional Quality Initiative Manager for the SfLQI in the East Midlands."""

More recently, I have worked as a SfL Facilitator in the London Area, East of England (round Cambridge) in 2003/04 and added the East Midlands area (round Nottingham, Derby and Lincolnshire) in 2004/05..""

I wrote a report for DfES called Learning in Deprived Communities which led to the setting up of a funding stream with this name. I also sat on the original steering group for this fund for four years.

I was awarded OBE in 2002 for my work.

I taught IT for a private provider and Lincoln College and I am qualified to a high grade in IT."

SfL Teacher Trainer with responsibility for Professional Development and management training of staff. Have delivered a comprehensive range of SfL related courses to practitioners.

Over 15 years experience as a Skills for Life Manager working in FE, County Council, Voluntary Sector and Private Training Organisations.

Consultancy work with a range of organisations including – NIACE, UfI Learndirect, Fern Training, CfBT and BSA

She has worked as Inclusive Learning and Skills for Life Quality Initiative facilitator with a wide variety of providers. She has gained considerable experience of delivering national training on the Basil training, diagnostic assessment, and learning materials and delivered many of the QI course over the last 2 years.

As a consultant she has worked with a range of providers reviewing their provision, systems and processes, identifying with them quality improvement measures and drawing up plans to bring about the desired change."