My background is predominantly in Nursery Nursing having completed my NNEB Diploma with distinction grade in June 1998. Through recent study with The Open University I have successfully completed the Professional Diploma in Management. I have recently been accepted on to the National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership which begins this September.

Since qualifying as a Nursery Nurse I have undertaken a number of roles including working as a Nursery Nurse in a school, a Special Educational Needs Assistant, Nursery Officer in day care, Health Development Worker and a Community Participation Co-ordinator for a Sure Start Local Programme.

I started work for Gateshead Local Authority in September 2004 as Children’s Centre Co-ordinator. My role was to develop Chopwell and Highfield Children’s Centres. In January 2006 I was successfully appointed as Head of Centre for the Children’s Centres I had developed.

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