“Richard is a pragmatic leader and manager with a can do attitude. He manages his team effectively creating high levels of engagement. He has strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work at all levels within the organisation. His has extensive knowledge of Learning and Development practice, developing new initiatives all the time. He is an integral part of my team. ”
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A creative, experienced, enthusiastic organisational learning specialist. A skilled and…
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Experience & Education
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Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust
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Volunteer Experience
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Various roles
parkrun
- Present 12 years 1 month
Health
I enjoy volunteering (and running) at my local parkrun, Temple Newsam in Leeds. I've had a go at every role and have been Race Director on several occasions. I've also ran a fair few (250+) and counting!
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Fundraiser
Lymphoma Action
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Health
Raised over £2800 for Lymphoma Action by running the 2018 Virgin London Marathon.
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Fundraiser
Aplastic Anemia & MDS International Foundation
- 6 months
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Raised over £1000 and ran the GNR
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Projects
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Money Advice Service - Quality Framework and Learning Pathway
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I was a member of a cross sector working project chaired by the Money Advice Service, (now the Single Financial Guidance Body).
The aim of the project was to drive up the quality of debt advice provision across the UK and improve client outcomes. It led to the introduction of:
+ A sector wide Quality Framework for debt advisors and advice agencies.
+ A defined Accredited Learning Pathway for debt advisors.
+ Acted as a precursor and a catalyst to increased regulation in…I was a member of a cross sector working project chaired by the Money Advice Service, (now the Single Financial Guidance Body).
The aim of the project was to drive up the quality of debt advice provision across the UK and improve client outcomes. It led to the introduction of:
+ A sector wide Quality Framework for debt advisors and advice agencies.
+ A defined Accredited Learning Pathway for debt advisors.
+ Acted as a precursor and a catalyst to increased regulation in the debt advice sector.
With an independent assessment of training programmes and individual assessments of over 400 debt advisor, StepChange was the first organisation to be awarded accreditation against the framework in Aug 2014.
Re-accreditation was successfully achieved in May 2017 for a further 3 year period.
Honors & Awards
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Debt Advice Quality Framework Accreditation
Money Advice Service
First achieved in 2014
Re-accreditation achieved in May 2017
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CIPD
Associate member
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