B-inspired Training & Consultants LTD was first conceived in 2012, when the four founding Directors brought together their ideas to develop a Training & Consultancy service, which offered a holistic range of learning resources for services supporting children and adults with Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, Autism, Dementia, Aquired Brain Injury.
Our business was formed to reflect our values, aims and objectives and the name represents our offer.
B-inspired Training & Consultants LTD was set up by four founding Directors, who have a vast experience working within the fields of Learning Disabilities, Mental Health and Autism Services for Children and Adults. We additionally employ a team of highly experienced RRN Certified Senior Trainers, who are located throughout the United Kingdom. Our trainers have a vast range of experience across Health & Social Care and Education.
ARC Model was developed in consultation with a range of stakeholders, experts, and people supported, who had experienced restrictive practice and restraint whilst accessing services.
In September 2015 we launched our ARC Model, incorporating ARC Entry Level and ARC Train the Trainer Level and we achieved BILD Accreditation in 2017. Our ARC model continued to develop, and our service grew over subsequent years.
ARC Model transitioned to achieve full Restraint Reduction Network (RRN) Certification in March 2020 and subsequent recertification in Feb 2023 and remains aligned to the RRN Training Standards 2020.
We have since developed our other training programmes and resources, incorporating ARC 3 (Incident debrief model), Bespoke training pathway and our range of enhanced and bespoke UK Safety POD techniques.
Download our interactive leaflet for more information about who we are.
Senior RRN Certified Trainer
I have worked within the learning disability field of nursing for 36 years. I qualified as an enrolled nurse in 1987 working at that time in Brockhall hospital in Lancashire. I left the hospital in 1988 and began working in a community base home in Salford for people with learning and physical disabilities.
In 1990 I transferred to the local community learning disability team as a temporary measure to cover maternity leave, gaining a permanent post in 1991, I undertook further training to gain registered nurse status in 1993 via the nursing times conversion course. I then continued to work as a learning disability community nurse for the next 11 years.
In 1996 I was successful in gaining my first management position. I have continued to work in management positions for the past 26 years being responsible for staff teams and development of community services for people with learning disabilities. In 2004 I made a brave decision to leave the NHS to work for a not-for-profit organisation. During my time with this company, I had two major roles, the first was a Social Accountant, this role was concerned with introducing quality monitoring systems across the national company, reviewing and maintenance of all policies and procedures and I co -facilitated a national forum for people with a learning disability
that ensured everyone had a real voice in the organisation. The second role was becoming the Divisional Director post for the company’s north division. I was responsible for the day to day running and the strategic direction of the division.
In 2009, I found myself at a crossroads and decided to return to the NHS as Team Leader for Tameside & Glossop Community Learning Disability Team which remains my current role. In 2011 I was nominated to become a Queens Nurse for a commitment to developing community services for people with a learning disability an award that I am extremely proud of and work hard to maintain.
In September 2015, I became a Director of a company, B-Inspired Training & Consultants LTD, that I set up with 3 colleagues delivering training and consultancy within the field of positive behaviour support principles.
In 2017 I became a BILD PITAS Accredited Trainer this was due to our ARC model being successful in gaining BILD accreditation for trainers in the safe use of breakaway and physical intervention techniques and an advocate of using positive behaviour support within all work practices.
In 2019 I gained the Chief Nursing Officer’s silver award for the partnership work I completed with Salford university in supporting and developing future Learning Disability Nurses. During my career, I have worked in a variety of settings from my early days in an institution to an assortment of community settings. I have been very privileged to work with and support some amazing people of differing abilities. I specialised in supporting people who sometimes present with behaviours of concern and have completed formal diploma training in applied behavioural analysis.
In 2019 I became the Managing Director for B-Inspired and steered the company through the Restrain Reduction Network Training Standards certification process. I am a person-centred facilitator and believe in truly advocating for people needs and rights.
In March 2020 I became a Restraint Reduction Network (RRN) Senior Certified Trainer following the ARC model successfully transitioning through the new RRN Training Standards.
Alongside my learning disability nursing registration, I hold the following qualifications:
My experience over 36 years has given me an invaluable understanding and knowledge into the struggles that people with Learning Disabilities, Autism and Mental Health difficulties face every day of their lives.
Supporting people in person centred ways has enabled me to use individual approaches to meet a person’s needs to increase their personal self-determination and increase their own independence, leading to an improved quality of life.
My professional practice ensures the training, assessment and consultancy services I offer are of a high quality, based on years of clinical experience and knowledge.
In my spare time I like to watch my daughter play football and I am currently the Chair of Governors for my local Primary school
Training Manager
Health & Safety Manager
Senior RRN Certified Trainer
Having worked for almost 35 years in a variety of different roles within the NHS, some colleagues and I decided to embark upon a new challenge in December 2015 which involved the development of a training model that would meet the needs of people supported within community services, as opposed to being detained in Hospitals. A new company (B-Inspired Training and Consultants Ltd.) was created with the aim of providing appropriate training in a number of different subjects to enable staff to support the people, for whom they provided a service, in more effective ways.
This included the development of the ARC (Assess, Respond and Care) Model, which focusses on the prevention and safe management of behaviours of concern presented by people supported across services. The ARC Model was initially accredited by BILD (British Institute of Learning Disabilities) in September 2017 and is now an RRN (Restraint Reduction Network) certified model to educate and train staff who support adults and children with learning disabilities, mental health problems, autism, dementia and/or acquired brain injuries. I am currently the Director of Operations and Health and Safety and Training Manager for B-Inspired Training and Consultants Limited. I am also an RRN Certified Senior Trainer in ARC Model.
My last role when working for the NHS was Practice Education Manager where I was based within the Learning and Organisational Development leading a team of six staff who were responsible for the delivery of staff training. At the time, I was also head of a BILD accredited training model which I developed after being appointed as the Hospital Lead for the prevention and management of aggressive behaviours in 1997. The model was designed for use solely with adults with learning and associated disabilities. My responsibilities included consultations with various organisations in the event of difficulties being experienced whilst supporting different people and being involved in assessments and reviews. Furthermore, I was actively involved in the Positive and Safe initiative and played an instrumental role in the reduction of restrictive practices for six different people detained under different sections of the Mental Health Act after being appointed as their Case Manager.
I have a wide range of clinical experience from working in Medium and Low Secure Services, Enhanced, Step Down and Community Services and have been actively involved in transitions between services as people progress through their care pathways. Among my previous roles at the NHS Trust where I was employed, I have worked as a Clinical Specialist, Behaviour Therapist, Deputy Clinical Team Leader, Staff Nurse and started off as a Nursing Assistant before undertaking my Nurse training in 1981.
Along with the clinical experience and knowledge that I have gained in my time working for the NHS, I have also delivered four keynote presentations at Conferences, most recently at the 14th International Conference on the Care and Treatment of Offenders with an Intellectual and/or Development Disability which took place in Leeds in April 2015.
I have also been actively involved in a number of gatekeeping initiatives assessing the suitability of people supported moving from one service to another. In 2013, I was co-author of the article “Resetting the balance: from despair to self-determination” which was published in the Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour.
I have been involved in a number of Care and Treatment Reviews in an Independent Clinician capacity as part of the Government’s Transforming Care agenda following the Winterbourne View investigation and continue to practice as a Learning Disability Nurse having met the re-validation criteria in 2021.
Manager of Quality & Compliance
Senior RRN Certified Trainer
I have worked with Learning Disabled children and adults since 1990. I have worked in a variety of roles across Health and Social Care & Educational services, including as a support worker progressing to senior support worker and then to Team Leader, when I managed a residential placement for adults with complex needs and identified behaviours of concern.
I completed a range of NVQ 2/3/4 and GNVQ qualifications in Health & Social Care prior to qualifying with a first-class bachelor honours degree as a Registered Learning Disability Nurse and Social worker in 2007.
After qualifying, I worked as a Mental Health & Forensic Social Worker in a Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). I returned to the Learning Disabilities sector in 2010, working as a Learning Disabilities Nurse in a Community Team for Learning Disabilities. My role was a specialist assessor within the Behaviour Services Team, where I completed Specialist Behavioural Assessments including Functional Analysis and Positive Behaviour Support Plans. This role incorporated delivery of specialist behavioural training to staff teams, parents, and carers.
Since 2013, I progressed to a Specialist Forensic role within the Adult Learning Disability team. This role involved me completing a range of specialist assessments relating to behaviours of concern and forensic risks. I was involved in securing robust and specially commissioned community placements for Learning Disabled adults who had previously offended and subsequently been placed in low/med/high secure hospital provision out-of- area. I was heavily involved in Community Treatment Review Meetings and Transforming Care agenda, which supported Local Service provision, with the aim of preventing placement breakdowns and unnecessary hospital admissions.
Alongside my nursing and social work degree I hold the following qualifications:
My experience and knowledge, spanning 31 years, has enabled me to develop a valuable insight into the difficulties faced by people with Learning Disabilities, Autism and Mental Health & Forensic issues. It has further provided me with first-hand knowledge and experience of the difficulties faced by staff teams, families and provider organisations in a world with competing demands and pressures. This experience and knowledge has fundamentally informed my professional practice and has become a core element in delivering quality training, assessment, and consultancy services.
