Peer Challenge Team

– Current portfolio includes Adult Social Care, Housing, and  Health Partnerships

– Previous portfolio included Public Health, Community Safety, Leisure and Culture

– Qualified social worker with over 20 years’ experience

– National ADASS Lead for Standards, Performance and Informatics

– Previously Director of Adult Social Care at Wolverhampton City Council

– Previous experience in Assistant Director and Service Manager roles at Coventry City Council and Northamptonshire County Council

– Executive Councillor: NHS Liaison, Integrated Care System, Registration and Coroners

– Previous portfolios have included responsibilities for Youth Justice, Housing and Community Engagement

– Conservative Party Member for Bourne North and Morton Division of Lincolnshire County Council

– Also Member of South Kesteven District Council

– Chair of Lincolnshire Health and Wellbeing Board and East Midlands Network of Chairs of Health and Wellbeing Boards

– Has been involved in more than 20 Peer Reviews around the country

– Leads operational delivery of care services to older adults including reablement and community social work

– Is programme sponsor for Equality and inclusion

– Previously led on Strategy and Commissioning at Essex County Council

– Has worked in senior improvement and transformation roles across central and local government

– Including roles in Local Government Association and Department of Health and Social Care

– Has set up over 20 shared services trading hubs and regional centres for joint commissioning

– (Adults) Principal Social Worker at Gloucestershire County Council since 2019, with strategic responsibility for the ASC Operations Practice Learning and Development team; co chair of the South West PSW Network

–29 years experience working in Local Authority Adult Social Services in the South West of England, in a variety of roles including administration, managing Domiciliary Care, direct Social Work practice, team and service management, professional practice leadership, spanning a range of service areas including Occupational Therapy, Sensory Services, Care Management, Integrated Mental Health Services, Intermediate Care, Learning Disabilities

– Qualified social worker since 2004, being additionally qualified as an Approved Mental Health Professional and Best Interests Assessor; currently a DoLS Signatory

– Previously a Court Appointed Deputy, having assumed caring responsibility for an elderly relative with end-stage dementia, and currently an informal carer to two other relatives – these life experiences have added a depth and wealth to Moira’s experience and passion for social work and making the experience for those with care and support needs, and their carers, as positive as possible

– Qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 2007

– Co-produced Moving and Handling Framework in Hampshire

– Lead Occupational Therapist for the Reablement Service since 2022

– Provides professional leadership for Occupational Therapy and Sensory Practitioners

– Works with Allied Health Professions Council

– Leads staff network within Reablement Service

– Current strategic role holds responsibility for care provider quality and contracts, the safeguarding adults board, and the service’s policy, performance and assurance team, as well as risk management and chairing the Adult Social Care Workforce Board

– Joined Somerset Council via its competitive Graduate Scheme in 2008 after being employed within the NHS and also having volunteered with the Police in her spare time

– 7 years working in Children’s Social Care in Performance analyst and project management/ business change roles, including supporting with inspection readiness and the development of strategies and needs analyses

– 8 years working in adult social care including as the Council’s first Safeguarding Adults Board Business Manager and leading the  Learning and Development function (including supervision of Adult Social Care’s Principal Practice leads, the commissioning of training, and hosting of annual conferences) and Safeguarding and Quality function

– Carer of a young woman who has learning disabilities and is autistic

– Manages direct payment and three PAs who support her daughter

– Background in local government in various roles and local authorities

– Experience as expert by experience on CQC equalities group with experience inspecting acute and primary care settings

– Works with Think Local, Act Personal and is co-chair of the National Co-production Advisory Group

– Involved in the Curators of Change Community Interest Company

– Wide experience of project and programme support across adult social care and health partnerships

– Challenge Manager for LGA Peer Challenges across 10 authorities

– Ongoing role as Regional Improvement Director for ADASS East of England

– Qualified psychotherapist in private practice