Working with Young People who have been permenatly excluded from mainstream secondary schools, also excluded from Pupil Referral Units.Working nationwide with young people both individually and in small groups for an alternative provision to mainstream teaching.Life coaching skills helping them to achieve their potential.

In this senior role I worked with six full time Rugby League referees, evaluating and coaching their performances. I also worked with eighteen part time referees, who officiated in the two tiers below Super League. Part of my role was to give feedback to the Super League/Championships Head Coaches (within the clubs) to discuss a collective understanding of the rules and interpretation of the policies. I was also part of a selection panel of managers to appoint personnel to the right calibre of match. Key to this role was the collation and analysis of data to ensure the policies and procedures we had in place were adhered to and developed/evolved where necessary. I wrote and implemented individual and group performance improvement plans to ensure strengths and weaknesses of the individual and/or group of officials were met. I worked with Sky, BBC and Premier Sport with visual and audio video refereeing to explain rational regarding decisions made. I have been a regular guest on local radio giving advice on refereeing decisions.• Ability to identify and improve strengths and weaknesses of individuals and teams.• Collation and analysis of data to provide and present information for improved performances.• Design and development of policy documents for workforce development.• Elite coaching and mentoring of individuals with fine attention to detail and within timed deadlines.• Design and delivery of training programmes to both individuals and groups.• Ability to apply and deliver rules and policies within a defined structure.

In 2006 I was one of the first six referees that were appointed on a full time basis to referee and video referee in the Super League competition. In my 12 year Super League career I refereed 300 Super League matches including 12 International matches. We worked with a conditioner who would facilitate fitness training sessions to improve the very high fitness standards required to be an elite professional rugby league referee. I, along with the coaches would analyse match day footage in fine, minute detail to help improve my on field performances. • Refereed at elite Super League level of Rugby League for twelve years including 300 Super League matches and also 12 International matches. • Video refereed Super League Grand Finals and Challenge Cup Finals at Old Trafford and Wembley respectively.• Video refereed Australia v New Zealand in Brisbane in the 2014 Four Nations tournament.• Coached elite, domestic and International match officials for the last 5 years.• Written and delivered European and International Laws of the game policies and procedures.

In this role I worked as a Head of Year in a Secondary School ensuring that all 212 pupils aged 12 or 13 in the year group had their pastoral needs met. This included mediating between pupil and teacher, and/or pupil and parent. This could involve using outside agencies to the meet the young person’s requirements for example liaising with Social Services, conflict resolution Etc. I would also provide early intervention mentoring to provide positive guidance.

I worked in a Secondary School as a mentor to 15 and 16 year old boys and girls. I would arrange one to one meetings with the pupils to listen to any issues they had which caused a barrier to learning. These barriers varied including self-harming, emotional, physical and sexual abuse, parental issues at home, low self-esteem, no confidence, anger management, personality clashes with teachers. Working with external agencies my key objective was to ensure the young persons’ needs where met and an individual improvement plan was put in place to break down the barriers to learning.

I worked for a sub-contractor to the British Aerospace industry