Kelsey

Fun fact: People with lived experience are capable of more than just lived experience roles 💡

@TheNelsonTrust are en route to @THORPEPARK with our whole residential service + 14 staff today! An excellent opportunity to demonstrate fun in recovery!💜

2 years ago back in full-time employment & what a fast-paced 2 years it’s been! I rejoined @TheNelsonTrust as a Key Worker before developing into Team Lead, Residential House Lead & now Admissions Lead🎉 Grateful to have an employer who fosters growth, development & success💜

Fantastic morning with @BishGloucester, @JustinWelby & co this morning, talking all things @TheNelsonTrust! 💜

Solo week of being Dora the Explorer in the sunshine, has left me feeling like a brand new person. So, so ready to get back to it after the bank holiday weekend!🙌🏾 – at Muğla, Türkiye

Much needed sun, sea & solitude, after a very fast-paced, eventful 36 months☀️ – at Fethiye, Muğla

Name a better feeling, than working for an organisation who fully believe in you and see potential you never saw in yourself?! It would be so easy for organisations in the Addiction sector, to keep lived-experience staff in support worker roles! Grateful to @TheNelsonTrust💜

A weekend of looking after my own recovery💙

My aunty - and ex @ArsenalWFC & Wales footballer - just reached Everest Base Camp this afternoon, raising money for @TheWallich. An incredible role model for women of all ages & I can only hope to be this fit at 50! Congratulations Aysh!💜

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Yesterday was bittersweet; saying goodbye to the place I thought I’d stay for the majority of my career, but focussing on my development & beginning a new role. The women I’ve worked with will forever hold a place in my heart & i’m excited for the next chapter💜

To mark ‘World Kindness Day’, our team created these certificates of appreciation for each staff member & circulated until we’d all noted our gratitude for each other. 9 days until I leave the team at Gloucester Women’s Centre to embark on a new adventure & I will miss them!💜

Whenever I fly abroad, I always think of the women I support in my job, who are still in active addiction. I wish I could create a visual timeline, to show them how much their lives could change and how they really are capable of achieving absolutely anything💜 – at Alcúdia, Spain

It is better to prevent, than to cure.

Still stands. Grateful to work for an organisation who practice this💜

Upsetting & frustrating, but very interesting read📄 rcew.fra1.cdn.digitaloceansp…

Effective partnership working creates some beautiful outcomes!🙌🏾

Never have I read a more accurate quote, which sums up working with vulnerable women🙌🏾

Great to hear @BishGloucester raising this issue in the House of Lords this week. We see first hand how destabilising it is, for women who are released from prison with NFA and placed into a hotel, B&B or other emergency accommodation.