Alex

Lived-Experience Tutor 

Alex supports the delivery of our courses. Alex is a music enthusiast and brings the courses to life by sharing about his lived-experience and the tools he used to manage his personal recovery. Read more about Alex's experiences as a lived experience tutor and why he finds this role fulfilling. 

Alison

Team Administrator

Alison sits at the heart of the team and is involved in all areas of the college, supporting the team with general project administration and ensuring the efficient running of the office.

Chris

College Registrar

Chris is the College registrar and is the friendly voice you will most often hear when you call the college. Chris is responsible for managing student enrollments and the college database. We often hear Chris advising students about what courses would best aid their recovery journey too.

Dawn

Advanced Lived Experience Development Lead / Deputy Manager

Dawn is responsible for helping the College Development Manager deliver the College, including from a lived experience perspective. Dawn is passionate about using her experiences to bring about change to services and enjoys delivering College courses to staff and College students. Read more about Dawn and how she plans to use her lived experience to help shape the College.

Geoff 

Student development Lead

Geoff oversees our student development programme and helps students to engage with involvement opportunities at the college.

Irma 

Development manager

Irma is committed to developing person centred recovery orientated services. Irma is responsible for supporting the involvement of people who use services, their carers and partners in the design, delivery and review of services to achieve best quality outcomes and service provision

Joanna 

Student development co-ordinator

Joanna oversees our student development programme and helps students to engage with involvement opportunities at the college. Joanna has worked within mental health for a number of years and provides a supportive ear for students who want to build their confidence and fulfil their goals.

Judith

Team Administrator

Judith sits at the heart of the team and is involved in all areas of the college, supporting the team with general project administration and ensuring the efficient running of the office.

Karen

Tutor

Karen has supported people experiencing mental challenges for over 20 years. Her background is in counselling. She is an artist and has used art to provide people with a creative outlet. She ran the first course with the college and continues to be a tutor supporting the development of the college and delivering wellbeing courses.

Louisa

Marketing and Communications Officer

Louisa is the college’s social media guru with responsibility for marketing, from producing content for the website to designing the timetable. Louisa has worked across a number of sectors and roles, including HR, finance and events and has a degree in Marketing.

Practice tutors, lived experience tutors and student council

Practice tutors have specialist subject knowledge, and lived experience tutors have personal experience of using recovery focused practices to manage their own mental health and wellbeing. Some of our lived experience tutors also make up the student council. These together support our courses to ensure students have a quality learning experience. If you are a student and would like to explore getting involved, please call 01442 864966 or contact us.

You may also like to read aboout the student development programme.