Razina and Safina who are supported at Olive Tree in Blackburn have both secured jobs volunteering in a local bookshop in Blackburn!

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Andrew and Sam in our Sixth Form have been learning about Dreams and Goals in their PSHE lessons. One of their tasks was to decide what their goals might be and what steps they could take to achieve them. They also learnt that people in other parts of the world may not be as lucky as they are, and that dreams and goals for those people may be different i.e. somewhere safe to sleep, enough food to eat.

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We were delighted to hold our first ever ‘Celebrating Success’ Awards Evening on the 11th of November 2021 at the Rembrandt Hotel, Weymouth to celebrate the incredible achievements and successes of our pupils over the last academic year, a year fraught with the difficulty and disruption of Covid 19, making the pupils’ successes even more remarkable.

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As part of their studies on Global Issues and Climate Change Key Stage 4 pupils have been following the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as COP26 held in Glasgow, Scotland, from 31st October to 13th November 2021.

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Liane is one of Potens’ wellbeing leads and a senior support worker at a specialist mental health residential service in Preston. Here she tells us all about her career development and the opportunities available to her at Potens.

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Natalie is one of Potens’ North Wales Managers, who began her career in care after seeing an advert for support workers in a paper 21 years ago!

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Jane is the Registered Manager of two of Potens’ services in the North West of England, Walmerlsey Road & Arbury House. Here she talks about her development journey in care.

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Georgia is Potens Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Lead. Here she tells us about her career in care which all started when she was 19 and training to be a learning disability nurse.

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New to the care sector and previously a firefighter, Jason began his career at Potens in March 2017 as a support worker.  Now a Team Leader at our Oakleigh service in Devon, here he tells us all about his care development journey.

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Roberts journey with Potens began with a school work experience placement our head office in Birkenhead. Now a senior support worker across Potens’ Wirral services, here he tells us his story.

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