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Shazia has over 25 years' experience in the Health & Social Care sector, with over 15 years at Senior Practitioner level offering psychological therapy and support, to clients of dual diagnoses. This has included working with clients on a one-to-one premise, offering therapeutic guidance, completing psychological assessments including: delivering psychometric tests, writing functional analyses, development of behaviour management guidance, risk management, reintegration work from secure settings back to the community, attendance at CTRs, CPRs, MDTs, being called upon as an expert witness as well as writing and delivering staff training.

Shazia has further offered both group and family counselling. Her portfolio of work has included but not limited to working in collaboration with local Social Services and ICSs, NHS England, the MoJ, Prison Services and Children's Services. Shazia has further operated at Director level in the health and social care industry sitting on operational and corporate boards focusing in the areas of children with EBD, Adults with LD and ASD, Older adults living with Dementia and MH services. She has retained both clinical and operational responsibility for corporate boards for over 15 years.

She has retained both clinical and operational responsibility for corporate boards for over 15 years. She has undertaken completion of psychological assessments and reports for PI, immigration, family and criminal law cases, in the capacity of a professional expert. Shazia further worked for the Care Quality Commission (CQC) as a regulator for seven years, initially as an inspector, and then furthering her skills through internal training, leading to her being one of the first five inspectors in the UK to graduate as an in-house trained prosecutor for the CQC. Her areas of interest are Learning Disabilities, ASD, MH and Forensics.

Zoe has over 15 years' experience in health and social care services. She has worked in the fields of learning disabilities, mental health, substance misuse and advocacy services.

Zoe worked as an adult social care Inspector and then an Inspection Manager for the Care Quality Commission, and as a Registered Manager of nursing homes. This experience includes new builds and turnaround home management. She has successfully taken homes out of embargo, and undertaken complex safeguarding, complaints and root cause analysis investigations.

This experience gives Zoe the perspective of both being the regulator, and the regulated individual. She understands the challenges, obligations and requirements of both.

Zoe also has extensive compliance, investigative and regulatory experience in the legal and social housing sectors. She is adept at applying legal and regulatory frameworks, understanding their requirements, and how they translate into practice.

Helen has 18 years' experience in health and social care in a range of HR and operational roles.

She has worked as an HR Director across a range of mental health and learning disability services including hospitals, care homes and supported living. She has experience of turnaround management, having been part of a team who took a struggling service facing regulatory action through to achievement of an Outstanding rating.

Helen has extensive experience of the compliance and regulatory areas of healthcare and people management, alongside the employee engagement and cultural development aspect.

Having worked in a range of hands-on and Board level roles, she understands the practical challenges faced by health and social care providers.

With over 16 years of experience in developing and managing growth, our Business Director is continually adding to his portfolio. Working his way up within adult social care, Khurram works as one of the lead practitioners within SSK Consultants working with complex cases within secure services and adult care settings.

He has spent the last 10 years’ training RGNs and RMNs how to work with individual’s who exhibit challenging behaviours utilizing low arousal and least restrictive practice. His calming nature and attentive manner enable him to develop trust when working with clients and staff alike.