My Career/Work

I am a highly resourceful, motivated, and enthusiastic individual with a creative flair for developing and implementing good quality standards, projects and initiatives. I have excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills who offers a first class and professional client focused service.

I have worked in the social care field for the vast majority of my working life. Undertaking roles in social work, being a project worker for a leaving care team, a sexual health worker and trainer and being an Employment Trainer and support worker for a East End College and in the same role for a London Borough as well as being an experienced lifeskills trainer delivering and designing workshops from self esteem, to managing negatives emotions as well as relationships and running experiential and therapeutic support groups in the community. More recently I was responsible for managing the fostering training service for two London Borough’s. Additionally I am a qualified Counsellor and Life Coach as well as an NVQ Assessor. Additionally, I have undertaken further voluntary roles as a Samaritan and a Victim Support Volunteer.

I have also been a fostering panel member for over six years. I am an ex-foster child having spent much of my childhood/teenage years in foster care. I have also been a supportive lodgings provider.

Whilst managing and co-ordinating the fostering training service I managed and developed many new and innovative services for the benefit of carers and had a good working rapport with both carers and social workers alike. Additionally, my claim to fame is the successful pilot of the CWDC Training, support and Development Standards and has a result, I developed many useful resources and Fast track programmes for carers, which resulted in me undertaking a large amount of developmental work and training for many of the London Borough. My other claim to fame is to develop the first accredited mentoring Scheme for foster carers which was accredited and won the government kite mark from the Mentoring Befriending Foundation.

During my counselling work and social work background I have worked with numerous different client groups. This has included working for a project which counselled survivors of child sexual abuse, Clients living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, those suffering from bereavement and loss, and clients who are gay and/or questioning their sexuality. In addition I have worked with clients who are living with domestic violence and who are suicidal, as well as working with clients relationship and self esteem issues, and those suffering from depression and panic attacks.

Michael has a proven track record of empowering people to move on with their own personal development and to move past the many barriers that prevent people have the kind of life they want and deserve. Michael is a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and adheres to their code of practice and ethical framework. Michael's aim is to empower other people to have a better quality of life and to help and support others to overcome the barriers people experience in their lives. Michael has a caring and sensitive temperament and offer a non-judgmental, empathic and gentle style of working in line with a person-centred approach.

His 25 years of working in the caring professions has brought him into contact with a vast amount of people suffering from an whole range of personal and practical difficulties and emotions. As a result of his working profession and his own personal experiences, of living most of his own life in the care system and having to learn for himself the interpersonal skills for adulthood he knows only too well the difficulties many people have

I am now keen to offer my skills, expertise and creativity in developing good quality training and other developmental opportunities for foster carers and providers.

My CV is available on request.

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