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She has a wide and varied experience in health, housing and social care both strategically and operationally. This has afforded her opportunity to gain extensive knowledge and skills within adult services and latterly Children’s services. Victoria has been actively involved in change programmes and strategic planning to enhance service provision. During her career, she has worked across several different Local Authorities in social work, commissioning and management roles and latterly worked for the voluntary sector. She has a track record of establishing positive working relationships and developing collaborative working across agencies to find solutions so that personalised services can be delivered, piloting innovative initiatives and creating a culture of continuous improvement across organisations.

Susan joined Coquet Trust in 1997. She has extensive experience of working with people with learning difficulties. Susan is very keen to be involved in health and social care initiatives and is actively involved in working within our community to bring people together and ensure that the people we support are truly engaged in meaningful activities.

She is driven to ensure that the people we support have a full and active lives. Susan believes people should all have the same opportunities as each other; choosing how to live their own lives.

Susan represents Coquet Trust within the Safeguarding Practice Delivery Group for Gateshead Local Authority as she is keen to inform practice.

Michelle has 30 years’ experience in social care and joined Coquet Trust in 1997.   In this time, she has gained valuable experience from the ground up and has been an operational manager for 15 years.

Michelle has a wealth of experience in supporting people with very complex needs She is passionate about ensuring people have choice and control over their lives and in delivering high quality support. She has extensive experience of working across disciplines to enable people to leave long stay hospitals to live within their own community and has enabled many teenagers to transition from children’s to adults services.

Michelle has many examples of how she has enabled people to enhance their quality of life and maximise their independence by ensuring consistent quality support was provided.

Amin is responsible for coordinating different services and teams in Newcastle and North Tyneside areas, and brings with him a valuable management background. His previous roles involved working in and managing services for people with learning disabilities and mental health needs. He was drawn to Coquet Trust because of the organisations’ strong commitment to the principle of ensuring that the people we support have choice and control in their lives.

Amin believes Coquet Trust should further develop its reputation as a creative, people-focussed organisation with a very strong practice-based support ethos. Amin has a particular interest in promoting personalised care, Positive Behaviour and Active support. He is also passionate about supporting and working alongside families and local communities to ensure that people who need support have strong connections.

Chris heads up the finance team, including payroll, and brings a wealth of finance experience.