Today we feature Trina Bright, Discovery’s Head of Coaching and Practice Support. Trina has dedicated the past 35 years to supporting people with learning disabilities and people with autism. If you’re suffering knockbacks at school; if those around you are saying ‘you can’t…’; if you keep getting turned away from jobs you want – we […]
Today, let’s meet the lady who sent a letter to the families of the people she supports, asking them if they’d like to have input into recruiting the people that support their loved ones. Hi Sandra, let’s start with a bit about your background please? Sure, I started as a support worker for Somerset County […]
At Discovery, we’re proud of the inspiring people in our Somerset-based team, it happens because we recruit people for their values first and experience second. Your values are more important to us than your skills because we can train you, but we can’t change you. If your values don’t fit with ours, it’s not going […]
We just got off a WhatsApp with the delightful Richard, who Discovery supports. Richard and Ruth are an engaged couple from Street that agreed to talk to me about their relationship thanks to Beccy Simmonds, Inclusion officer for Discovery, who set the meeting up for us. What a wonderful, fun-loving couple! Ruth delighted in reliving […]