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Below are details (in alphabetical order) of the senior staff and the Area & Service Managers who work for Life Path Trust.

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	Gary Bye Chief Executive	Gary Bye has worked in organisations supporting people with a learning disabilities since 1983. In the year 2000 Gary came to work for Life Path Trust, transforming it from an organisation providing care homes to one that puts people with a learning disability at the centre. Life Path is now providing support to people in their own homes to help live an independent life.

	Kay Sumner Director of Finance & Development	Information to be updated.



	Denise Mobley Director of Operations	Denise joined the organisation back in 1984 and has been involved in just about every aspect of the Charity’s work. She was the Registered Manager for our Domiciliary Care service and had overall responsibility for all the other support provision – respite, day activities and monitoring, together with recruitment and played a small part in our events and marketing organisation. Denise says she has seen a tremendous amount of change over the years, both within the Company and in Learning Disabilities generally. She fully embraces supported living and endorses the values of Life Path Trust. Denise will be taking up her new role as Communications & Inclusions Officer later in 2013.


	Anne Beeby Corporate Appointee	Anne joined the organisation in the late eighties and has seen many changes take place over time both within the charity and with learning disabilities in general. She is especially glad to be involved within the learning disabilities sector at the present time as this is the most exciting and productive period she has known. Anne supervises the Area Managers, coordinates training, helps secure funding and plays a part in the monitoring of our services.

	Gail Cooper Area Manager for AREA 1	Gail has worked for Life Path Trust for over 15 years. She has worked in a few of the services over the years, the Respite Service being one of them which she enjoyed the most.

	Bonnie Wilson Area Manager for AREA 2	Bonnie has worked in the Social Care sector for 27 years. She started as a volunteer at a large institution supporting people with learning difficulties. Bonnie then went on to do a variety of support and managemet roles within this field. Coming to Life Path in July 2006, she is presently managing 8 services as part of her Area Manager role.

	Tracy Whent Area Manager for AREA 3	Information to be updated.

	Mark Gibson Area Manager for AREA 4	Mark has worked for the charity since 1993. He has an interest in IT and technology in general and because of this he has led the push into installing assistive technology into our services. Mark believes Assistive technology is important as it can enable the people we support to live more independent lives with less intrusion from support staff.

	Lynn Tallett Area Manager for AREA 5	Lynn has over 20 years experience of working in the Care sector and is a registered Nurse in learning disabilities. Before coming to Life Path in June 2009, Lynn worked and managed services in a variety of settings all over North and South Warwickshire, Coventry and Tayside Scotland. Lynn has a special interest in supporting people that have complex needs to live an independant life within the community.

	Karen Bish Area Manager for Oxford	Information to be updated.

	Elaine Skillern Person Centred Planning Coordinator	Elaine has worked for the charity since 1997. She has seen Life Path Trust move from providing residential care to providing domiciliary support to people with learning difficulties. Due to this change, Elaine's job has also developed from a Senior Care Assistant to PCP Coordinator. Doing person centred plans with individuals has been inspirational to achieving service users life goals and achievements. To learn more about PCP, please click here.

	Tina Turrell Service Manager for Respite Care	Tina has worked for the charity for over 14 years; most of this has been managing the respite service. Tina and her team have worked towards developing the respite care especially the domiciliary respite service. Prior to working for the organisation Tina worked in the South Warwickshire area for 8 years initially based in a large institute and then supported resettlement into community homes in Stratford upon Avon. Tina is also involved in staff training and delivers training for the Coventry Training Consortium. To learn more about Respite please click here.

	Dawn White Day Activities Coordinator	Dawn came to Life Path Trust in 1996 and has had numerous roles, including Senior Care Assistant, Head of Homes and Manager of Personal Care. Since November 2006, Dawn took on the Day Activities Coordinator role where she supports over 22 service users to learn new skills in the community. To learn more about Day Activities, please click here.

	Ann Smith Service Auditor	Information to be updated.