Simon Richardson

Experience

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  Stockton and Billingham College of Further Education

  Sept 1999 - Sept 2001

  Lecturer Health and Social Care

  I provided course leadership and delivery of GNVQ Health and Social care course from Entry Level through to Advanced Level. I was also the personal tutor to a number of students. In addition I was part of the College Health and Safety Committee.

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  Stockton Borough Council

  Sept 2001 - Sept 2010

  Coordinator, Drug Education Team

  I coordinated the Drug Education Team, a multi-agency team made up of Health, Education and Police professionals. The role of the team was to support schools (Primary, Secondary and Special) other educational establishments in the development and implentation of drug education policies and programmes and ensuring that theses programmes were integrated within the PSHE framework within the establishment. Myself an dthe Team also supported the Sex and Relationship Education and Emotional Wellbeing agendas providing training to staff, parents, governors and other professionals on a range of Drug, SRE and Emotional Health and Wellbeing issues. Show less

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  SNR Consultancy and Training

  Sept 2010 - now

  Owner

  SNR Consultancy and Training provides a sevices on a range of emotional health and wellbeing issues including Mental Health First Aid; Youth Mental Health First Aid; First Aid at Work; AED training; Paediatric First Aid; Moving and Handling (objects); Emotional Intelligence; Drugs in the Workplace and Laughter Yoga and other Stress Management tools.Clients include EDF; The Prince's Trust; Housing Hartlepool; Tyneside Cyrenians; High Tunstall College of Science

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  Totally Laughter Yoga

  Aug 2011 - Aug 2014

  Partner

  Laughter Yoga and Wellbeing activities for all - I'm still involved with Laughter Yoga and laughter for health and wellbeing, but now do this under Golden Tree CIC as our business grows and evolves. As well say in the Laughter Yoga world - "Very good! Very good! YEY"

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  Golden Tree Wellbeing CIC

  Apr 2013 - now

  Director

  Golden Tree provide innovative and dynamic health and wellbeing training. Offering a range of training services and opportunities to public, private and third sector organisations. Golden Tree have absorbed the work of Totally Laughter Yoga to create a holistic approach to health and wellbeing training. We specialise in Stress Management tools, Resilience and Mental Health training.

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  MHFA England

  Jul 2014 - Nov 2018

  Member of the National Training Team (MHFA England)

  As a member of MHFA England's National Training Team I will be helping and supporting Mental Health First Aid Instructors with both the Adult and Youth courses. For information on how to become a MHFA instructor or MHFA courses please contact MHFA England.I resigned my position as a member of the NTT to pursue projects within Golden Tree Wellbeing CIC including Managing Distress in the Workplace and ASIST

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  Simon Richardson Kintsugi Psychotherapy

  Nov 2018 - now

  Owner

  Offering low-cost counselling and psychotherapy; please visit www.kintsugi.co.uk