Sheila Mulvenney

Associate Trainer, Consultant, Speaker

During her career in Health, Care and Education Sheila has worked in a wide variety of settings and roles in the Community, schools, colleges (where she taught on the social work and care management courses) and several local authorities. In addition to working directly with children, young people and families she has in many roles been responsible for developing and delivering training programmes for teachers and school staff, social workers, other social care professionals and parents and carers. The topics have included all aspects of parenting and caring, mental health and resilience, attachment, trauma and child development, as well as behaviour, special educational needs and inclusion. Sheila has also worked in a number of different Virtual Schools for children in care as consultant, deputy head and head and continues to do this on an interim basis. Her book, Overcoming Barriers to Learning' was published in 2017 and she has had articles published in the TES and Guardian.

Since 2021 Sheila has been concentrating on training both face to face and online, including topics such as attachment aware and trauma informed practice, behaviour management, supporting education of vulnerable children and also on wellbeing mindset and phonics.

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Dates Description
2019 - Present Specialist Education Adviser, post-LAC, LB Brent
2018 - 2019 Interim Deputy Head Teacher, Virtual School, LB Brent
2016 - 2017 Head Teacher, Virtual School, LB Lambeth
2015 - 2016 Executive Head Teacher, Virtual School, Southend-on-Sea
2015 - 2015 Consultant to Virtual Schools, Bedford and LB Lambeth
2014 - 2014 Tutor, Medical Needs Team, LB Barnet
2010 - 2013 Virtual School Head Teacher, Milton Keynes LA
2007 - 2010 Inclusion Support Officer, Bedfordshire
2006 - 2007 Liaison Manager, Behaviour Improvement Project, Bedfordshire
2005 - 2006 SENCO, Oak Bank School (SEMH), Leighton Buzzard
2004 - 2005 Head Teacher, Sedgemoor College, Bedford
1990 - 2004 Lecturer/Course Leader,Care Management, Bedford College
1987 - 1990 Registered Childminder
1984 - 1987 Health Visitor, Bedford Health Authority
1981 - 1983 Staff Nurse, Bedford Hospital
Qualification Organisation Date
CELTA English Language House 2012
Mentor Training/Training the Trainers Liverpool Excellence University Partnership 2006
PGCE Greenwich University 2002
Assessor and Verifier Awards D 30 - 33 Bedford College 2002
BA (Honours) Open University 1988
Registered Health Visitor Stevenage College 1983
RGN RVI Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1981
Title Publisher Date
Overcoming Barriers to Learning Worth Publishing, Duffield 2017

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