Our Team
Meet The Team
Priscilla Mushonga – Managing Director
Priscilla Mushonga is the Director of Norden Hills Family Centre. Priscilla is a seasoned and hands-on qualified Social Worker who has been involved in the health and social care industry for over 15 years in various capacities ranging from support worker to Social Worker Practitioner. As a Social Worker, Priscilla has been involved in community assessments of service users, case coordination and management for service users with complex health and social care needs, screening and responding to safeguarding allegations and carrying out Section 42 safeguarding investigations and informing CQC of the outcome.
She also worked with children and young people in different settings including primary schools carrying out risk assessments and therapeutic support sessions. Priscilla is also a qualified Best Interest Assessor. Her vast experience and understanding of the health and social care sector is cornerstone to the organisation.
Pretty Tafangombe – Responsible Individual
Pretty is a highly committed and experienced Social Worker with over 10 years’ of practice working with vulnerable children, young people, and families. She has an in-depth understanding of legislative frameworks, procedures, and techniques, with extensive knowledge of social work principles and their application to complex cases.
Pretty has worked in various local authorities with experience in the following teams: Duty & Assessment, Child Protection, Child in Need, and Cared for Children’s Team (LAC). Pretty’s experiences include and are not limited to; SWET, SGO Assessments, Section 7 reports, Viability Assessments, Connected Persons Assessments, PAMS assessments, Sibling Attachment Assessments, CSE Assessments, Age Assessments and Court experience for Interim Care Order, Special Guardianship Order, S7 reports.
Pretty also has a good deal of post-qualifying training including; Human Rights Assessment Training, Form F Assessment, Care planning Training and Parent Assessment Manual Software 3.0. (PAMS).
This enabled her to engage more therapeutically with children and families. In her time as a Practice Manager for Barnardo’s Paula supervised between five and six staff at a time. Paula’s training include: Dyadic Developmental Practice Level One & two, Richard Rose Certificate in Therapeutic Life Story Work and Trauma informed creative art therapy certificate Foundation Level and Level Two. Paula is particularly interested in using creative artwork and has just applied to do a part time MA in Art Psychotherapy.
Paula Registered Manager
Paula is a qualified social worker who has been qualified for over fifteen years, since 2006. She has two and half years’ experience working in the care management field holding case responsibility for children subject to care proceedings and child protection plans.
She also has thirteen years’ experience working in the adoption field firstly as an adoption worker assessing prospective adopters and finding families for children subject to Placement Orders and holding case responsibility for them as well as being a Practice Manager for Barnardo’s Adoption Team in Yorkshire for three years.
Since moving to Barnardo’s Paula has developed abilities to manage a project of delivering training across a large geographical area liaising and working in partnership with other local authorities to deliver this training. Alongside this, Paula continued to develop her skills in working with adoptive families by continuing in her personal development by training in Thera-play One and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy one and two.
Mental health Professional
Abel is a qualified mental health practitioner. Abel is a dedicated and dependable professional who strives for best practice in his work. He is hardworking and committed, and his person-centred approach has aided him in establishing positive relationships with vulnerable people. He is thorough in his work and shows great insight, this informs his careful planning and inspirational leadership. Abel has held positions at operational and managerial levels in various settings. Abel has a passion and dedication for supporting young people within residential settings who may be experiencing emotional/behavioural/mental health difficulties.
Beverly Clayton – Lead Early Years Practitioner
Beverly is a seasoned lead early years practitioner who has many years of experience in different roles within the Early Years sector. She previously held the role of Safeguarding Officer and has recent up-to-date safeguarding training.
Beverly is positive, kind, and possesses a caring nature with patience and enthusiasm. She has experience working with people with mental health and learning disabilities.
Beverly has worked in different organisations to do with children mostly in nursery and early years practice. From teaching assistant, pre-school leader, senior early years worker, the leader in charge role and full-time early years practice amongst other experiences since the year 2000 to date.
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