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Management Team
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Jayne Wise Managing Director email: jayne@options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/jayne-wise/3/878/a55 Jayne Wise is the Managing Director of Options 2, Jayne set up the company in 2005. She is a fully qualified Basic Skills Tutor, and her experience spans very senior management and interim assignments in education and the private sectors, including Further Education. Much of her recent work has been with the Skills Funding Agency and other consortia and she sits on many steering groups throughout Northamptonshire. Jayne has over 25 years management experience is a trained counsellor and is a Skills for Life Tutor working for the Basic Skills Agency and Centre for British Teachers. |
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Steve Iddon Operations Director email: Steve@options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn http://uk.linkedin.com/in/steveiddon Steve Iddon is Operations Director and is responsible for the day-to-day management of staff at both the Horton and Gold Street sites. He is also responsible for developing the use of ICT and Marketing at Options 2. Steve has over 3 years experience in adult education, starting as an IAG advisor and tutor. He brings a range of technical, practical and management experience from diverse sectors such as Publishing and Construction. Steve understands what it means to be a lifelong adult learner as he completed his degree with the Open University in 2008. |
Co-ordinators
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Sue Green Office Manager - Horton email: Sue@options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn n/a Sue Green is the Office Manager at Horton, she has 18 years administration experience. Her role is to manage and co-ordinate the administrative activities associated with the delivery of our contracts, to ensure key performance indicators are maximised and targets are met. Her strengths lie in her organisational ability, work ethic, efficiency and attention to detail. |
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Charlotte Knock Quality and Apprenticeship Co-ordinator email: Charlotte@options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn n/a Charlotte Knock is our Quality and Apprenticeship Co-ordinator. She is responsible for all aspects of quality within Options 2 and also looks after the Apprenticeship and Work Based Learning contract training. Charlotte has over 7 years experience working within the training industry in both Further Education Colleges and Private Training Providers. She has experience of working as a Tutor, Assessor, IAG Advisor, Internal Auditor and Contract Manager. Charlotte is also a Designated Safeguarding Officer for Options 2. |
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Greg Slinn Next Step Co-Ordinator email: Greg@options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/greg-slinn/22/791/75 Greg comes from a legal background and after working in Oxford and Reading as well as in Spain, he returned to Northampton in 2003. Since then he has worked as an Employability Adviser and therefore has over 7 years experience of the training sector. Greg is one of our team of IAG Advisers with a Level 3 NOCN Advanced Certificate in IAG. He is also a Project Co-Ordinator and a member of the Institute for Learning. |
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Hannah Dikeson Recruitment Co-ordinator email: Hannah@options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn n/a Bio coming soon.... |
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Sally Owen QTLS QTLS Co-Ordinator email: Sally@options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/sally-owen/8/799/302 My name is Sally Owen and I’m employed by Options 2 as QTLS Coordinator. My role is to deliver and assess Initial Teacher Training to both new and experienced individuals in teaching and training of adults. (PTLLS, CTLLS & DTLLS) I am the Designated Safeguarding Officer, First Aider and Literacy Champion. I am also a qualified Next Step™ Advisor and provide Information, Advice and Guidance to adults..... |
Administration Team
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Sam Skelton Tutor & Assessor Administrator email: Sam@Options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn n/a Samantha Skelton is the Tutor and Assessor Administrator. She provides the interface between Options 2 and our delivery staff. Samantha has over 15 years’ experience of working in a customer service and administration environment. Her main strengths are building relationships and organising projects. |
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Chloe McGall Administrator email: Chloe@options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn n/a Chloe McGall joined Options 2 in June 2010 as an Apprentice Administrator and has now successfully completed her Business Administration Apprenticeship. Chloe provides general administrative support to everyone at Options 2. Chloe also co-ordinates and invigilates exams for our candidates. |
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Suresh Dulal Administrator email: Suresh@options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn n/a Suresh Dulal is Administration Support, he has 2.5 years experience in supporting the administration team. Suresh is flexible and will work whatever hours are required |
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Kelly Blackwell Administration Apprentice (Gold Street Office) email: Kelly@options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn n/a Kelly joined Options 2 earlier this year as an Apprentice Administrator and is working towards completing an NVQ in Business Administration. Kelly helps support the Options 2 team with administrative duties. |
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Sophie McShane Administration Apprentice email: Sophie@options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn Sophie started at Options 2 earlier this year as an apprentice. She is doing an Apprenticeship in Business and Administration and Sophie helps the Options 2 staff with any admin support. |
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Andrew Jackson Admin Apprentice email: Andrew@options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn n/a Andrew recently joined Options 2 as an Admin Apprentice. Andrew provides general adminstrative support to the Options 2 office in Horton. |
Project Team
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John Friendship-Taylor Recruitment/Sales Co-Ordinator email: John@Options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn n/a John previously completed a BSc degree at Plymouth University in Wildlife Conservation, graduating in June 2010. He then travelled around the world for five months, before joining Options 2 in June 2011 as administrative work experience. This lead to a permanent role at the Horton head office. Soon after, John was moved into a trainee Recruitment role at the Gold Street branch of Options 2 in Northampton town centre. He continues to develop into the role, offering advice/information on the Apprenticeships that Options 2 provide, as well as supporting the marketing team in various tasks such as editing the website. John is currently undertaking an Advanced Apprenticeship for IT Users with Options 2 to further develop his skills. |
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Joe Hughes Management Information Administrator email: Joe@Options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn http://uk.linkedin.com/in/joemhughes Joe is the Management Information Administrator. Joe has 10 years experience in uploading data to an MI system. He is organised and pays attention to detail. To further his skills, Joe is currently undertaking an Advanced Apprenticeship in IT. |
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Brian Osborne IAG Advisor/Tutor/Assessor email: Brian@Options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn n/a Brian has many years of experience in teaching and is a member of The Institute of Learning. He holds Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills status. He has delivered Information Communication Technology, Employability, Health and Safety, First Aid and Food Safety qualifications (amongst others) in the Further Education College, charity and private sector. |
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Christine Blair IAG Advisor email: Christine@Options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn n/a Bio coming soon... |
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Teresa Kaye IAG Advisor and ICT Tutor email: Teresa@Options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn n/a Teresa Kaye is our Senior Administrator and IT Tutor at Gold Street, with 14 years experience in administration, teaching and training. Teresa holds teaching qualifications, which including assessors awards and is a Microsoft Office Master Instructor. Teresa’s strengths are her organisational skills and keen eye for detail. |
Champions
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Sally Owen Literacy Champion email: Sally@options2.net Connect with me on LinkedIn http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/sally-owen/8/799/302 My name is Sally Owen and I’m employed by Options 2 as QTLS Coordinator. My role is to deliver and assess Initial Teacher Training to both new and experienced individuals in teaching and training of adults. (PTLLS, CTLLS & DTLLS) I am the Designated Safeguarding Officer, First Aider and Literacy Champion. I am also a qualified Next Step™ Advisor and provide Information, Advice and Guidance to adults..... |
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Jane Marsh Lead Champion and Numeracy Champion email: n/a Connect with me on LinkedIn n/a Jane has over 30 years’ experience in post compulsory education spread over a wide range of settings. Her qualifications include a BSc, PGCE, 7407 and Numeracy Subject Specialism. She has worked with learners from a variety of backgrounds with a broad spectrum of learning needs. As a maths/numeracy specialist she has a deep understanding of the specific teaching and learning associated with the subject. She has developed resources for numeracy learning and teacher training, many of which are now available on the Excellence Gateway. She undertook the Training the Numeracy Trainers course at London South Bank University and has since written and delivered numeracy teacher training programmes. Jane maintains contact with learners through her role as an e learning tutor on work based training programmes. This ensures that she is able to keep theory grounded in reality. |
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Sue Todd Assessor Champion email: n/a Connect with me on LinkedIn n/a Sue began her journey with Post-16 education and training in 1990 and has worked in the public and private sector at managerial level. Amongst her qualifications she has a BA in Education, has D32,33,34,35 and 36 and has competence across a wide range of vocational areas including education, training and development, management and business skills and health. She has mentored and coached individuals and teams to work cohesively and has developed teams of Assessors and Internal Verifiers in the organisations in which she has worked. Sue is known for creating and implementing robust quality systems and has also worked as a full-time External Verifier for two years. Sue returned to the UK a year ago, from France, where she lived for almost 9 years, running a business and putting her EFL qualifications to good use teaching English to French people and French to English people, as well as managing and being involved in various musical groups and societies in her free time. She is enjoying re-entering the vocational development arena with Options 2 and looks forward to working with the team of Assessors and Verifiers. |
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Mike Ideson ESOL Champion email: n/a Connect with me on LinkedIn Mike is a Skills for Life tutor and our ESOL(English for Speakers of Other Languages) Champion. Mike is highly qualified and has been delivering ESOL in the lifelong learning sector for many years. |
Delivery Team
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