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Below are details of the senior staff and the Area Managers who work for Life Path Trust.

	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.
	Denise Mobley Head of Social Care & Support Services	Denise joined the organisation back in 1984 and has been involved in just about every aspect of the Charity’s work. She is the Registered Manager for our Domiciliary Care service and has overall responsibility for all the other support provision – respite, day activities and monitoring, together with recruitment and plays 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 is also Company Secretary for Life Path Trust.
	Keith Cooper Finance Manager	In the past Keith has been a football referee from the age of 14 for about 27 years and also sang in the amateur operatics, musicals and male voice choirs. He qualified as an Accountant in 1979 (CIMA) and was admitted as a Fellow of the Institute in 1990. Keith joined Life Path in May 2001 after spending most of his career in the industry.
	Anne Beeby Assistant to the Head of Social Care & Support Services	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.


	Sarah Turner Area Manager for Coventry East	Sarah came to work for Life Path at the tender age of 16 and while she was still studying at college. She started off as a Junior Care Assistant, got promoted to Care Assistant and over time to Senior Carer. After a lot of hard work and successful training at Life Path, Sarah is now Area Manager.
	Mark Gibson Area Manager for Coventry West	Mark has worked for the charity since 1993. He has an interest in IT and technology in general and because of this he is leading the push to install 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.
	Gail Cooper Area Manager for Coventry South	Gail has worked for Life Path Trust for 14 years now. 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 Coventry North	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 4 services as part of her Area Manager role.
	Tina Turrell Service Manager for Respite Care	Tina has worked for the charity for 10 years; most of this has been managing the respite service. Tina and her team are currently working toward 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.
	Elaine Skillern Person Centred Planning Coordinator	Elaine has worked for the charity for over 10 years. 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.
	Dawn Gould 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 22 service users to learn new skills in the community. To learn more about Day Activities, please click here.

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