Stephen Bridge Email & Phone Number

Blackpool, England, United Kingdom

• Providing leadership to the organisation and the board by ensuring that everyone remains focused on the delivery of the organisation’s charitable purposes in order to provide greater public benefit • Chairing and facilitating board meetings• Representing the organisation at functions and meetings, and acting as a spokesperson as appropriate• Bringing impartiality and objectivity to decision-making• Developing the board of trustees including induction, training, appraisal and succession planning• Addressing conflict within the board and within the organisation, and liaising with the chief executive to achieve this• Liaising with the chief executive to keep an overview of the organisation’s affairs and to provide support as appropriate • Leading the process of supporting and appraising the performance of the chief executive • Sitting on appointment and disciplinary panels

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Policy manager for Social Care Workforce (Grade 7)• Ensured the department was working on the minister’s high-level goals in Social Care, and had allocated resources to support them; making sure that the minister was engaged early on in the process to set direction and was kept in touch regularly with progress. Keeping abreast of external developments, including horizon scanning. • Scoped, developed and implemented the policy for the Think Ahead fast track scheme for Adult Social Workers• Commissioned and managed approx. £16m worth of grants, ensuring the Social Care community’s needs were represented during the various spending reviews