Meet the Staff
I am the Director of SCLD. I am responsible for the way that SCLD develops. My key skills are: Facilitation, Evaluation, Policy briefing.
"My particular strength is findings ways to listen to make sure that the views of disabled people and staff are included in evaluations. I am also proud of the way that I can link practice to national policies in all of the work that I do.
I have 30 years’ experience of research in health and community care. I worked with the World Health Organisation in Europe on healthy cities and have written about services for older people and people with learning disabilities. I have a particular interest in improving services for people with high support needs."
I am the Training Officer. I design and deliver a variety of training courses offered by SCLD.
As part of my role I work with our team of Co-trainers to build capacity and support them to design and deliver training courses. i am also a graphic facilitator (draws what happens in meetings) and has facilitatated person centred MAPs and PATHs for individuals and groups.
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I am involved with organising and managing SCLD events and co-ordinating Learning Disability Week. I am also the editor of SCLD News and supports other SCLD publications such as the Annual Report.
Some of the other things I'm working on is managing the 'What's Out There?' project, access to justice and how to raise awareness of the issues affecting people with learning disabilities and their families.
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I am the Policy and Practice Development Manager. I am responsible for developing SCLD's consultancy programme.
"I joined SCLD in 2004. Before that I managed an advocacy organisation in Glasgow. I have a particular interest in finding ways for people with learning disabilities to live authentic lives, with services, families and others supporting them to do this.
As well as using the skills and experience of SCLD’s staff team, I also coordinate a network of freelance consultants to increase our capacity to deliver on a wide range of projects."
I am the Information Officer. I support SCLD staff with their information needs and I am involved with the website, SCLD resources and the Library project.
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I am the Project Co-ordinator. I am part of the National Local Area Co-ordination Development team and co-ordinates some consultancy projects too.
I am the eSAY Project Co-ordinator. I spend my time working on the eSAY project.
I am a Finance & Hr Officer. I support SCLD as part of the Administration team.
I am a Co-Trainer. I delivers lots of different courses for SCLD and also help to design them.
I also helps to keep the training department records up to date and is involved with our wider team of Co-trainers.
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I am the training administrator with SCLD.I mainly work with the training team looking after the bookings and enquiries. I also help out with some general work that SCLD does.
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I am a Research Officer with SCLD. This means that I gather information and try to work out what it tells us. I like my job because it involves lots of different activities like interviewing people, reading, working with numbers and writing about interesting subjects.
I am responsible for the development of the eSAY dataset. Specific development areas include: education; employment; Local Area Co-ordination; Autism Spectrum Disorder and links with Insight (a careers information database).
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I am responsible for data collection for the eSAY project and making its information more accessible.
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I oversee the training department. I also organise our work plan and deliver training too.
I liaise with potential customers and promote SCLD training wherever I go. I also design courses, and I can undertake training needs analysis and evaluations.
I am a member of the Administrator team at SCLD.
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I am a Consultant on the Citizen Leadership project.
My key skills are: photography, audio recording and IT.
Previous experience involved raising awareness of bullying and hate crime directed at people with
learning disabilites. I also have a short story called 'A Trip Doon the Watter' which is published in a book
entitled 'It's Better Than Watching the Telly' a collection of short stories written by a group of young
adults with Learning Disabilities.
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My main tasks are co-ordinating meetings, marketing and organising conferences and
events within SCLD and providing support to various projects such as the LAC Team,
Health and Medical Issues Working Group and in Control Scotland.
I am the National LAC Development and Policy Worker. I work with Claire and Laura
to help support the development and implementation of Local Area Co-ordination in
Scotland. We also work closely with the National Reference group who make sure that
the voices of people with learning disabilities are at the centre of this project. I am
currently working with colleagues to build up the evidence of how Local Area Co-ordination
can deliver good outcomes for people and and communities in a cost effective
way. We have also written a practice framework for Local Area Co-ordination. I enjoy
my job very much and I particularly like meeting all the different people that get
involved with SCLD's work.
I am involved with the library project and the website. I also help SCLD staff with their information requests.
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I am an administrator at SCLD. I am involved with the eSAY project, the board and I support SCLD staff with general admin needs.
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I am the National Employment Co-ordinator and I work with both public bodies and private companies to increase the job opportunities for people with a learning disability.
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I am a learning disability nurse for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. I work in collaboration with SCLD to tackle health inequalities faced by patients with learning disabilities. I design and deliver training with the overall aim for an inclusive NHS.
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I joined SCLD in February 2012 and I am involved with the eSAY project. I am responsible for collecting and managing data from Local Authorities. I also facilitate IT support for SCLD staff.
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I am one of SCLD's training officers. I develop and deliver training programmes.
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