Meg has been at the college for 7 years working in the the Business Development Unit from its infancy. As well as helping to look after all Government Funded provision, she is also responsible for all Full Cost Recovery work.

Meg has a very varied role with a lot of rules and regulations to understand and follow before imparting that knowledge to colleagues and clients. Working closely with many of the support departments across the college, she also has numerous external stakeholders to keep informed as well.

Phillip is the Specialist Skills Coordinator for Technology and Innovation at the College. He has significant experience of working within the Corporate Finance sector and managing business relationships and is also a qualified teacher. His focus is on researching opportunities to support the rapidly changing skills needs of the UK economy. This involves liaising with Government, Sector Skills Councils, Higher Education Institutions and Employers to provide a relevant and coherent vocational offer to the market. Phillip is currently working on projects that include; renewable energies, recycling technology, automotive, smart metering and local regeneration activities.

Frances Wetherilt is the Specialist Skills Co-Ordinator for the Business and Enterprise area.

Frances’ own business and enterprise skills and experience include the set up and management for three years of a small business. Management, marketing and sales experience gained within business and voluntary sectors and related qualifications including a degree in Business Studies.

With a remit to develop and grow the business and enterprise offer, Frances works with partners including Worthing and Adur Chamber of Commerce, links into sector skills councils and responds to Government initiatives, including the drive to support new business start ups.

Frances also manages a team of business assessors providing NVQs and apprenticeships in enterprise skills, team leading, management, business and administration, customer service, advice and guidance, sales and prospectively any other business related qualification an organisation requires.

Selina Shields Bishop is the Specialist Skills Co-Ordinator for the Health and Social Care and Early Years sector .

Prior to joining Northbrook, Selina has throughout her career worked for both Corporate and small independent business. Selina has developed a wide range of skills whilst working in industries such as Retail, Insurance and Property Services which enables her to interact with business assisting them to empower their team and increase performance. Since working for Northbrook College Selina has gained experience within the Health and Social Care Sector engaging with employers and supporting training needs.

In her role of Specialist Skills Coordinator, Selina has close links with “Skills for Care”, Councils and local and national employers to enable them to develop their workforce. Selina works with the department and employers to identify new requirements and opportunities for training within Health and Social Care and is persistently striving to best support the College’s drive to become more responsive to employers’ needs.

Selina also manages a team of Health and Social Care assessors providing Diploma’s, short courses and workshops in line with CQC recommendations.

Maxine Green is the Business Training Adviser for the Technology and Innovation area.

Maxine Green has experience of working within large organisations as well as small independent businesses. Maxine’s wide range of skills and experiences enable her to advise and direct local businesses towards the most effective training solutions. She can assist your business to plan and schedule employee development, tailored to support the skills required to take your business forward. Whilst employed within the insurance industry Maxine gained extensive experience of credit management, staff recruitment and development and ISO accreditation. Moving into Business Development/Account Management Maxine developed her sales and marketing expertise in Media advertising covering Sussex and London. During her time at Northbrook College Maxine has worked with employers from all business sectors. Her focus now is on Technology and Innovation in support of the rapidly changing skills needs of the UK economy.

Julie Hunt is the Business Training Adviser for the Business and Enterprise area.

Julie has worked at Northbrook College since 2000 with experience ranging from teaching, coordinating projects such as on--line distance learning, workshops in IT and soft skills and training for the unemployed, proactively working with internal and external clients.

As a Business Training Adviser Julie promotes the College’s services and government initiatives supporting local and regional businesses to enable them to fill skill gaps, improve moral and motivation, enhance growth and impact positively on productivity.

Julie has been a Business Training Advisor since 2006 working across all business sectors but her focus is now with the Business and Enterprise sectors developing and expanding working relationships by providing a comprehensive training service, free training needs analysis, follow up reviews and to facilitate commercial contract agreements.

As your account manager Julie is here to support and encourage businesses to grow and prosper.

Angela Crane is the Business Training Adviser for the Health and Social Care area.

Angela Crane is a SFEDI accredited Skills and Business Advisor, having previously worked for Skills South East and Business Link. She has worked with both large and small businesses across the South East region, assisting companies with growth and business issues. Angela previously worked within the Health and Social Care department 4 years ago.

Vicky is responsible for providing administrative support in respect of all cluster activity, preparing student documentation for funding returns, tracking student progress and providing support and assistance to Distance Learning Assessors/ Business Trainers.

Rebecca is the Project Administrator for Health and Social Care .

Rebecca’s role is to provide administration support for the Health and Social Care cluster within Business Development. Her duties include supporting and processing the NVQ/Diploma and short course students. A large part of her role includes liaising with the Priory. The Priory are one of Northbrook College’s main partners within Health and Social Care. Rebecca processes the apprenticeship enrolments, tracks all candidates and certificates successful staff studying the Health and Social Care apprenticeship programme.

Paul joined the team in August 2009, bringing 25 years of experience in designing and delivering training and coaching solutions to a wide range of business clients. Paul is a qualified coach and training assessor.

Paul is also responsible for engaging employers as part of the Colleges Training Impact Measurements.

Lyn co-ordinates the facilities, trainers and referrals on the Redundancy Programme. She also liaises with other Training Providers and Stakeholders regarding all aspects of Redundancy Programme

Jennifer Pannell is the Customer Services / Events Organiser for the Business Development department. Acting as the first point of contact for new queries from employers and individuals and sending out course information to inform your training decisions. Jennifer is also responsible for co-ordinating the topical monthly employer updating events keeping businesses up to date with changes in legislation and other issues.

Clare is the Customer Service Assistant within Business Development. Mainly responsible for helping with the general day to day customer service requirements, focusing on answering enquires received from employers by telephone or e-mail. Clare also helps co-ordinate room hire bookings within the college for external companies.

Helen assists with the customer service team for Business Development focusing on the Redundancy Programme in conjunction with the Job Centre.

In addition to this Helen is also an assessor delivering Customer Service and Business Administration.

Seb is the Administrator for the full cost recovery courses, liaising with companies and tutors he co-ordinates the student paperwork and time tables the classes.

The college employs a range of business trainers from a wide variety of business sectors who have up to date knowledge and skills within their specialist areas. As a result, attendees on either the standard or tailored courses will receive the most current and best practice business approaches as reflected in todays market place.

Assessors are members of staff who come out and service, guide and assess the needs of candidates to gain their NVQ qualifications. Assessors use a wide variety of methods to aid the candidate’s completion of NVQ qualifications – this can include observing workplace activity, guidance on workplace evidence, professional discussions, and distance learning to cover the underpinning knowledge of the qualification - all done to aid the production of a portfolio of evidence. Our assessors are all vocationally competent within the sectors for the NVQs that they cover this includes: Customer Service, Business Administration, Team Leading and Management, Advice and Guidance, Motor Vehicle Maintenance all at Level 2 and 3 NVQs.

Internal Verifiers provide on going quality checks for all students undertaking an NVQ qualification. Internal Verifiers primarily check that the Assessors have done their role correctly, professionally and to the correct standards. An Internal Verifier checks that a candidate’s portfolio has reached the national standards of the chosen NVQ and that the Assessor has produced, guided or obtained the evidence from the candidate to prove this. Once a candidate’s NVQ portfolio has been internally verified it is then ready to be put forward for certification by the Awarding Body. Our Internal Verifiers are vocationally competent within the sectors for the NVQs that they cover: Customer Service, Business Administration, Team Leading and Management, Advice and Guidance, Motor Vehicle Maintenance all at Level 2 and 3 NVQs.