Phil Harris has worked with complex needs for over 28 years as a practitioner, trainer and manager. He has extensive experience across the field frontline substance misuse, homelessness, and mental health services. He has managed teams including family, young people, dual diagnosis & personality disorders and substance misuse. And designed a wide range of services from large scale multi-county treatment …
Kate Dale has worked at RISE for 13 years and has extensive experience both managing and commissioning services supporting vulnerable people. In addition to management qualifications she holds a Diplomas in Counselling and Strategic Coaching. RISE stands for Refuge, Information, Support and Education. Based in Brighton, we are the specialist domestic violence and abuse charity having worked for 30 years …
Rachel specialises in delivering training for young people’s services, in particular conflict resolution, working with challenging behaviour, complex needs, and young people in gangs. She is a qualified teacher and restorative justice practitioner and has project managed youth alternate sector programmes for over ten years. Rachel has delivered extensive training to services, including, The Home Office, the MET police, prison services, LEAP, MIND …
Kendelle founded the National Centre for Behaviour Change (formerly Zest Consultancy) in 2003 and has been specialising in behaviour change for over 16 years to date. Kendelle originally trained as a Midwife before moving into Public Health where she has passionately worked to integrate evidence-based practice into behaviour change interventions and practice through her one to one practice, consultancy and …
Jayne has been delivering training in Brighton for 13 years. After qualifying as a social worker and working as an adviser in London, she finally made it to the seaside and has been in Brighton since the mid-80s, doing a variety of benefits-related jobs. Having had such a long immersion in benefits world, she is familiar with just about every …
Having worked in mental health fields for over ten years, Alex is the regional coordinator for the International Stress Management Association and a qualified Mental Health First Aid Instructor. Alex is passionate about improving understanding of our mental health and works with participants in interactive and multi-sensory ways to encourage engagement and retention of learning. She has worked with the …
Kate originally qualified as a social worker and has since gained 30 years’ worth of experience in the public sector and within mental health fields. Having contributed to development of the very first Adult Protection procedures in East Sussex, Kate has since managed safeguarding processes in a range of operational management roles. Now an independent trainer, she has worked with …
Graeme is a training and development specialist with 20 years’ experience of delivering leadership, management and soft skills programmes to a range of private, public and voluntary sector organisations. His trainees have included, managers from the Independent Police Complaints Commission, the Line Management Group and Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service. In 2013, Graeme attained a ILM Level 7 Certificate in …
Shaun has been working with vulnerable clients as a frontline worker for 20 years and backs up this professional experience with an honours degree in Behavioural Science. As a trainer since 1996, Shaun has since delivered training, consultancy and coaching to a wide range of organisations, including Mind, the University of Sussex and Maersk Shipping, and in countries as far …
Phil has over 27 years’ experience teaching First Aid. He spent the first 25 years of his career in HM Prison Service as a PE teacher, teaching and practising First Aid on a regular basis, and now teaches full time around the UK. He consistently receives excellent feedback for the courses he delivers for BHT, for the lively and engaging …
Merav’s training work has taken her around the world, to as far afield as Africa and South India. Having specialised in group work and counselling for 30 years, Merav has worked with a vast array of partner organisations, including the CRI, East Sussex Children’s and Adult Services and Family Mosaic, among others. Her training methods always encompass four key elements: …
Simon has over 12 years’ experience in social care and is a member of the planning committee of the pan-Sussex multi-sector Practitioners Alliance for Safeguarding Adults group. Working throughout the UK, Simon has been directly involved in Safeguarding work with a diverse range of people including adults with physical disabilities, sensory impairment, HIV AIDS, mental health, substance misuse, learning disabilities, …
Mary has been training IT applications including Excel, Access, Outlook, Powerpoint and Word for the ‘not for profit’ sector for around 15 years. Mary always gets the highest praise for her courses because they are fun, engaging and interactive. She believes that this is particularly important with IT, because engaging learning means remembering, understanding and therefore making the very most …
Claire Pooley is a Traumatologist and EMDR Practitioner, with Senior Accreditation as a Humanistic Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor with the BACP. Claire registered as a Registered Mental Health Nurse in 1983 and went on to study Counselling in 1990 whilst working in the HIV field in South Africa. Previously, an Area Manager in a Mental Health Charity in the UK, she …