Month: February 2019

28th February 2019

Celebrating Our Everyday Heroes

The first round of Everyday Heroes winners have now been selected and certificates have been awarded. Congratulations to Debbie Harwood who was awarded the Everyday Heroes Gold Award and to Jade Tilson who won the Everyday Heroes Silver Award. They were given their certificates in the first presentation of the year by Quality Consultants Jon, Ryan and Jamie who […]

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19th February 2019

A visit to The Old Vicarage with one of our Locality Managers, Yasmine England

About Yasmine Yasmine’s career began in childcare. Wanting a change from working with children, her mum, who worked in the care industry, highlighted that her skills were transferable and that she could make a great support worker. Despite being a bit of a self-confessed workaholic, Yasmine was reluctant to give up the long Christmas holiday […]

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15th February 2019

The feelings of change

I am writing to share my thoughts on how things are progressing around the changes which have taken place in Discovery.  I won’t reiterate why we needed to change, I think that’s largely done and dusted. Instead I will share my thoughts on how I think it’s going. My first thought reflecting on the past […]

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8th February 2019

When spreadsheets meet crochet

“Four people we support managed to invite themselves to my wedding a few years back,” laughs Lisa. “I loved it and so did they. I like to think its how we work round here.” Lisa’s just back in the office having visited Theresa, a lady Discovery supports near Bridgwater “I met Theresa once before,” Lisa […]

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