At the British Red Cross, we help anyone, anywhere in the UK and around the world, get the support they need if crisis strikes. Our health and care teams support a range of people including those being discharged from hospital, high intensity users of emergency care and regulated personal care for end of life patients. I am a compassionate and collaborative leader with a wide range of experience in the health and voluntary sector. This includes leading dispersed groups of staff and volunteers across emergency, health and social care based services. I have experience in developing successful partnerships across health and voluntary sector organisations, from commissioned regional services to working with local foodbanks in areas of deprivation. I am interested in using insights and forecasting in strategic planning and development of services. I have incident management experience at operational, tactical and strategic level, including multi-agency gold incident command. I volunteer as a community first responder for the East of England Ambulance Service and as a Trustee at Disability Advice Service (DAS), East Suffolk.I graduated from Bristol University and have a Masters (MBA) from the Open University.