Simon Richards Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Ryde, Isle Of Wight

London, England, United Kingdom

King's Cross, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Supporting charities and other non-profit organisations to appoint Trustees and Non-Executive Directors.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

I led on school and academy governance development across the South East, London and East of England regions, working in partnership with strategic stakeholders to improve the educational standards and wellbeing of young people by increasing the effectiveness of school governing boards and promoting high standards.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

I led Future Chairs, the chairs recruitment and development service of Inspiring Governance, ensuring that all future chairs who were recruited to governing boards had the right skills and support to contribute actively, provide leadership to the governing board and have an impact on board effectiveness and quality of governance from day one.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Isle Of Wight

• Using my proven experience in governance development, I worked with the whole board to improve their effectiveness and enhance their impact on school improvement.
• External Review of Governance
• Facilitated Self-Evaluation
• Facilitated Skills Audit
• Ofsted Inspection Preparation for Governors
• SWOT Analysis

Ventnor, Isle Of Wight

As well as my role as Vice-Chair I had responsibility for monitoring the progress and attainment of disadvantaged children, and the use of the Pupil Premium funding that these pupils were allocated.

Newport, Isle Of Wight

I had specific responsibility for monitoring safeguarding of the students and staff, and also for those students in the Gifted & Talented stream.

Isle Of Wight

Workplace mediation is a less formal and adversarial alternative to grievance & disciplinary procedures. The aim is to restore and maintain a positive working relationship between colleagues who find themselves in conflict. Mediation is about resolving ongoing conflict, improving communication and looking to the future.Commercial mediation resolves.

Newport, Isle Of Wight

As Chair of Governors from September 2014 I led the governing board to bring the school out of 'Special Measures' and achieve significant improvement in the standard of education. I then led the board through the process of forming a federation with the board at Carisbrooke CE Primary School starting in July 2016.

Newport, Isle Of Wight

In my first school governorship I was a parent governor with responsibility for equality, and was also Vice-Chair.

Hampshire & Isle Of Wight

In addition to my contracted role, I provided accredited mediation services within Hampshire Constabulary as a member of the mediation group. We offered mediation as an alternative conflict resolution option to formal grievance procedures and achieved a 30% reduction in the number of formal procedures across the organisation.

Hampshire & Isle Of Wight

I provided financial support to the Corporate Support review Team, coordinating the budgets and savings profiles for a dozen functional reviews and identifying non-staff related savings. I also provided budget management support to the Call Management Department and was a member of the Senior Management Team for the Isle of Wight Command Unit, leading a.

Isle Of Wight

I led the Finance Team in providing a comprehensive range of financial support services to the Isle of Wight Division, including budget management, overtime processing, expense payments and procurement.

Accounting, Accounting And Business/Management, 2:2

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