All our team have done a little video about them, click their Photo to see and hear them
Our Team is below:
Lynn James-Jenkinson
Team Director
07970 900 226
Lynn is a qualified Social Worker and has management qualifications.
Lynn has worked in the public sector for over 30 years, starting her working life supporting disabled children in mainstream school and as a support worker supporting people with a learning disability relocate from Long Stay hospitals across the North of England to homes of their own with they support needed to achieve that. Lynn has always enjoyed working closely with people with learning disabilities and their families to support them to live the lives they want to live.
Lynn brings her experience, knowledge and passion about people’s rights to her role. Most importantly Lynn has 6 children of her own and understands the issues affecting disabled children and adults and their families from a personal perspective.
Phil Palmer
Finance Manager
07971 176 240
Phil is the Finance Manager and Company Secretary for Pathways Associates. His organisational skills and experience provide essential support to the director and associates. He keeps everything running smoothly around the finances and ensuring associates receive support as and when required for on-going projects. As a family member Phil is actively involved in a number of regional and local networks and groups including;, the Greater Manchester Learning Disability Operational Group, Oldham’s Learning Disability partnership Board and is a Trustee a Director at the Future Finders Employability College.
Phil has a passion for photography, particularly stereoscopic (3D), likes to wood turn, particularly pens. He also tries to stay active by running ParkRuns and also enjoys regular fell walking with his family.
Dene Donalds
Co-Founder and Director
07816 073334
Dene leads Pathways Welcome Values Quality Checker Programme and facilitates a number of Regional Groups and Forums including the Regional Learning Disability Forum; National Campaigns; Being Safe and Mens Groups.
Dene has worked as a Director and senior manager of provider services in the public, private and third sector. He also served as a Health and Social Care commissioner. He has a particular interest in racial justice aswell as improving the criminal justice system for people with learning disabilities and autism and works with the Greater Manchester Learning Disability Criminal Justice implementation Group to help achieve this.
Dene develops and leads mindfulness programmes for people with learning disabilities, people with autism, their families and workforce. His work includes leading the NHS Improving Access to Psychological Services (IAPT) Valuing People Now Project and a three year series of mindfulness programmes for the workforce of MerseyCare NHS Foundation Trust.
Dene leads mindful meditation programmes in prisons for offenders and provides mindfulness training for physical intervention training agencies to help reduce the use of physical interventions.
Dene is a Registered Nurse for People with Learning Disabilities and has a Masters Degree in Business Administration.
Adele Hoskinson-Clark
Associate Consultant
Adele has worked for many years with young disabled people and is passionate about inclusion and the need for young disabled people to be involved in shaping the services that support them.
Adele leads on the development of local networks and forums where young people can identify the barriers they encounter in their lives and share experiences around removing those barriers. Her particular interests include inclusive education and the need for sexual health services to engage with young disabled people and respect their sexuality and identity.
Adele also works with various organisations, aiding them to engage and support young disabled people in a mutually beneficial and productive way. Adele’s work is underpinned by the Social Model of Disability and driven by the principles of the independent living movement. She is an eloquent speaker and facilitator and works to support organisations to develop inclusive practices. She delivers workshops on the following issues:
Education and supporting young people to make the transition toward higher education.
Sexual Health and Disability.
Self-directed support and person centred planning approaches.
Adele is a very proud mum and feels passionately about society respecting disabled people’s right to be parents.
When Adele isn’t working she enjoys spending time with her family, eating out, going to the theatre and reading.
Laurence Clark
Associate Consultant
Before working for himself, Dr Laurence Clark ran a project for Liverpool Primary Care Trust researching how the NHS can provide Accessible Health Information and communicate effectively with disabled people. Since then he has provided training and consultancy to many public authorities across the country and supported the development of a number of disabled people’s organisations.
At school Laurence was ill-advised by the career service to go into IT; their reasoning being he could earn good money and never encounter any wheelchair access issues by working entirely from home. After spending years studying for a PhD in Bioinformatics, Laurence decided on a complete change of direction and went back to study for a M.A. in Disability Studies at the University of Leeds. A user of self-directed support since 1992, his dissertation examined the effects of community care charging policies for personal assistance users, comparing the English and Scottish charging systems.
Laurence also works as a critically-acclaimed stand-up comedian and writer. In 2004 he was a guest reporter on BBC 2’s Newsnight, presenting a short film about disability and the Abortion Act. He was also the subject of a major BBC1 documentary called “We Won’t Drop the Baby” shown in March 2012. He has written about various disability equality issues for The Guardian, The Times, BBC News Online, Community Care and Disability Now amongst other publications. Nowadays I regularly write blogs on disability rights and other issues for The Independent – see http://www.independent.co.uk/biography/laurence-clark
Mark Shackleton
Conference Friend
07969 070 291
My name is Mark Shackleton. I am a Conference friend and have helped organise the Blackpool Self Advocates Conference since 2011, including helping with planning, preparation and running workshops.
I am really excited to be involved with the Oliver McGowan MandatoryTraining in Learning Disability and Autism.
I will be helping to prepare and run the training for staff. I have a Learning Disability and Autism myself and I think it is important that people with lived experience are involved in running this training because we are the ones who know what good support feels like.
Mark is a great role model to people in a similar situation and a very active member of the team.
Pauline Doyle
Associate Consultant
07977 015 646
Pauline leads our work on Personalisation and person centred skills and approaches, across our adult, older peoples and children’s programmes. Pauline has many years experience across the statutory and voluntary sector at senior levels assisting people with autism, forensic needs as well as people and children with disabilities to get the support that is right for them.
Since qualifying as a social worker in children’s services more than 40 years ago Pauline has worked directly, consulted and trained widely in person centred thinking, planning and approaches. She is a practitioner in family therapy, an accredited trainer in Map and Path, ELP and Inclusion, Training the Trainers, is an Action Learning Set practitioner linked to the Manchester Business School .
Pauline is a qualified leadership executive coach. Including coaching individuals, groups and organisations to develop their learning and action planning using a process of enquiry. Her approach is supportive and reflective providing the people and organisations she assists the opportunity to figure out what they want and were they want to be.
Pauline is a member of The association for coaches.
Pauline is a qualified self compassion - resilience and wellbeing coach. Her interest in self compassion for women is of great value in her work. Providing self compassion workshops and retreats.
When not working Pauline loves nothing more than walking her dogs, cooking for her family, holidaying in Cornwall and doesn’t sail anywhere near as often as she would like.
Vicki Hornby
Associate Consultant
07932 235614
Vicki supports our Confirm and Challenge groups, facilitating co-production between disabled people, families and public sector colleagues to transform care for people with learning disabilities, autism or both in the North West
She leads our Equality and Mental Capacity Act training courses. She also facilitates the co-production of our Experts by Experience, Speak Up and Training the Trainers programmes to enable self advocates to lead in our work with partners.
Vicki is passionate about independent advocacy, equality and human rights. As an experienced statutory and community advocate she continues to support disabled adults and children to have their voice heard across a range of issues affecting their lives.
Vicki supports us to gather and share the views and experiences of disabled people and their families to influence policy through our research and evaluation work.
She has a BSc in Psychology and an MA in Disability Studies.
Cathy Gibson
HR & Office Manager
07572 555 419
Cathy is an experienced and competent office administrator/Manager, having great organisational skills. She co-ordinates the subscribers information and provides regular communication to all the team at NWTDT/Pathways, making sure associates are kept informed of new guidance and practice. Cathy is a whiz at proof reading and can spot a mistake from a mile away.
Cathy has also taken on the HR role organising contracts and DBS checks for anyone who does work for the company.
For most of her career before NWTDT/Pathways Cathy worked in the travel industry as a travel agent and tour operator. Her passion for travel remains and she regularly holidays in Scotland, England and Wales in her touring caravan with her family and friends
Danielle Johnson
Events Manager
07950 617 457
Danielle works for Pathways Associates as our Events Manager, and CTR Co-ordinator for the North West Hub. As Part of Danielle’s Events Manager roll, she oversees all aspects of events planning and organisation. This includes working with a number of different provider organisations as well as our colleagues, booking venues, producing flyers, marketing events, taking bookings and generally being there on the day to offer support and make sure everything runs smoothly. The range of events Danielle organises vary throughout the year, from our Summer Festival for All, to our Gala Dinners and 3 day Self Advocate conference and most recently online events and meetings.
As CTR co-ordinator Danielle arranges and books independent panels for all NW CTR’s and CeTR’s, maintaining a strong working relationship with NW CCG and Local Authority commissioners. As well as managing our NW Hub Clinical advisors and Experts by experience. Danielle has also been involved in creating systems to streamline the productivity of the CTR process along side our IT manager.
Outside of work Danielle is a amateur artist and produces work for various shows and exhibitions.
Liam Vernon
IT/Communications Manager
07813 508 048
Liam Is our communications manager , managing our website development, publications, promotions and communications. He works magic with PDF and has provided an altogether more effective approach to how we develop our communications.
Trading as Live I.T, Liam has developed the branding of both NWTDT and Pathways and contributes to all our product information. He is an experienced website technician who is in the process of re-designing and developing our website, as well as providing regular maintenance and support. Above all he works wonders with our ideas and turns them into practical and visual solutions to use within our work...
Liam’s technical skills and interests extent to the stage, drama, sound and lighting.
Janice Wycherley
Associate Consultant
Janice qualified as a social worker in 1986 and has worked with people with learning disabilities for her entire career. She was also a short break foster carer for children with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities for 14 years and credits that experience with enriching and positively influencing both her work and her life. Her first post was a Social Worker in a Community Learning Disability team where she soon became involved in the hospital closure programme, supporting people to move into homes of their own. She then moved into provider services and as Principal Officer in a Local Authority, managed the whole range of LA services including supported living, short breaks, day and employment services and the assessment and care management team of social workers.
Janice spent 14 years working in a joint health and social care post as Head of Integrated commissioning and has a passion for achieving success through commissioning improved person-centred outcomes for people by collaboration and co-production.
Janice is an independent consultant and takes the lead for health on the NWTDT/Pathways team, promoting stronger systems to deliver good population health for people with learning disabilities. The team’s work is focussed on promoting the prevention of health inequalities, health protection and health improvement across the whole health and social care system. She also takes the lead on supporting our two Joint Training Partnerships based in Greater Manchester and Lancashire and South Cumbria.
When she is not working Janice likes to spend time exploring new places and countries, learning languages very badly and attends as much live theatre and music as she can fit in.
Kim Doolan
Associate Consultant
07939 127 811
Kim is a qualified social worker, person-centred planner and best interest assessor. Kim has worked in the public sector for over 30 years supporting people with learning disabilities and their families. She is passionate about the rights of disabled people and a supporter of the advocacy movement and self-directed support.
In her spare time, she loves spending time with her son and daughter, cooking, trips out with family and friends and looking after her cat Tinkerbell.
Kath Bromfield
Associate Consultant
Kath has worked as a Pathways Associate for a number of years. Kath's background is in education, but as a parent/carer felt unsure of the way forward until she went on a parent leadership course which challenged her thinking and became more involved in her local area. Passionate about inclusion in all aspects of life, she believes in person centred values underpinning all we do.
Working regionally and nationally, Kath delivers training, attends meetings where she tries to be a positive disruption to a service focused way of thinking and co-produce the way forward.
Kath believes strongly in developing communities through focusing on people’s strengths, and working with our varied and wider communities to ensure everyone has a voice and is a valued citizen.
Kath is mother to four young people and a very proud Mancunian. Kath loves meeting people from all walks of life and believes that there is more that unites us than divides us.
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Donna Gillespie
Associate Consultant
07808 845 779
I am a Registered Learning Disability Nurse with over 25 years’ experience working with adults and children. I am a BILD Accredited PBS Coach, MAPA Instructor and Person Centred Planner
I have also successfully completed a Certificate in Applied Behaviour Analysis through the Institute of Applied Behaviour Analysis. I am trained in Mini Pass-Add. I have worked in both the NHS and social care sector. Employment history includes working in various community and hospital settings. Since November, 2014 I have worked as an Associate Consultant with Pathways Associates/NWTDT. I have been involved in various projects including:
Jason Rhodes
IC Jason Rhodes CEO / Conference Organiser
Jason is a young man with a disability who is the CEO of I C Jason Rhodes Ltd and is subcontracted to the North West Regional Forum through Pathways. He has adapted to the role of MC (calls it “Showrunner”) and is best known for his catchphrase (I’m Back”!!). He also reads out the raffle numbers at the Gala Dinner which he also MCs. He has a skill for producing Easy Read documents and can spot any spelling mistake.
When doing Regional Group meetings (office – based) Jason will write the agenda and minutes complete with pictures, and after each conference he does a Newsletter and “Rogue’s Gallery for the best pictures.
Jason has done admin for most of his working life and after a long time of filing, faxing and photocopying he felt he needed something more. After setting up I C Jason Rhodes (his own company) he found a flair for event management and being a comedy compare. He became known for the remark “now that’s comedy” but not as famous as his catchphrase.
When he is away from the work scene Jason can be found playing pool Watching TV (sport or comedy, some historical stuff) He writes a few children’s fantasy stories (nothing good enough for publishing) and spending time with his family and keeping up with the latest news on his favorite football team Blackburn Rovers.
Lisa Jackson
IC Jason Rhodes Administrator / Administrator
Lisa works for IC Jason Rhodes as Jason ‘I’m Back!’ Rhodes’ support worker. She has been in this role since February 2014. She supports Jason in his role as Conference organiser and MC, Gala Dinner raffle organiser and in producing Easy Read documents.
Lisa also does some admin work for Pathways including taking minutes and producing easy read documents for the Being Safe, Living Well and Staying Healthy subgroups, and for the National Campaigns Group. She says they are all her favourite groups.
Lisa has worked with Children and young people for most of her career but is now really enjoying working with and helping adults with learning disabilities and/or autism.
In her spare time, she likes playing tennis, eating out, doing a lots walking with her partner Bridgette and their dog Libbie, and spending time with her family, especially their 2 young nephews.
Pip Horne
Expert Hub & Associate Consultant
Pip has over 20 years experience of working with self advocates to co-produce on a personal, local and strategic level. She takes a lead on creating accessible information following our Regional Forum and Confirm and Challenge meetings. She supports our experts to get the training they need to feel skilled and confident to get involved in the work that they are passionate about.
Pip’s hobby is pottery and whenever she can she will be ‘throwing’ pots on the wheel or keeping her fingers crossed that the latest kiln firing comes out well.
Tony James-Jenkinson
Membership Support Officer
Tony is a qualified lecturer and worked in education for over 30 years latterly supporting Autistic adults, people with mental health issues and learning disabilities within a forensic setting.
Tony is an Expert by Experience with 6 children, one of his children, Emma, happens to have Downs Syndrome.
Tony brings his experience as a Dad and Lecturer to the team and works as an Expert by Experience at Care Education and Treatment Reviews.
Tony has also co-delivered ‘Families as Partners’ training working with colleagues within Health, Education and Social Care settings to support and understand the family dynamics that work when being supported by services.
Tony is our Pathways Membership Support Officer and helps us share information with Members and continue to grow our membership so we can connect with as many people as possible.
In his freetime to relax Tony plays Sax in his band Tonal Select.
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Andrew Redmayne
Support Worker
Andrew will be supporting Mark in his role as conference friend and trainer.
Andrew used to work as an occupational therapist in mental health services around the North West, and more recently as a personal assistant in Lancaster.
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