1. My Profile.
Seamus has many years’ ServiceManagement experience. He uses an Impact
Reporting Toolkit and PerformanceManagement Toolkits to help those he
manages to measurewhatthe servicedoes and tell the story of the changes
they make in families lives. He is an accomplished bid writer who has brought
in approximately 4 million pounds worth of funding in his current role over the
last 9 years. Hemanages 19 socialcare staff and an overall budget of £500,000
per year. He has been involved in the writing of Safeguarding and Children’s
Rights policies and is a member of a number of strategic level groups in
Liverpool.
He is a trustee with the John James Rowe Foundation which supports women
and girls and has a reputation for values led practice, innovation, serviceand
staff development and as a trainer. For example Seamus developed one of the
firstwhole family services for drug and alcohol using families in the country
and worked with others to develop a servicein Liverpoolfor men abused in
public care. He put in place a plan for the evolution of all the services he
manages enabling them to reposition themselves in the social care
marketplace and identified the funding needed for a number of key staff to
complete a postgraduate coursein Family Intervention at John Moore’s
University.
Seamus has developed, Working in Drug and Alcohol Using Families training
for Sure Startstaff and co-created a therapeutic programmefor people in
transition. He developed a Graphic Comic Resourcefor usewith young people
at risk of gang membership and managed a Knowsley based gang’s service. He
has worked with the Probation Servicewith men sentenced to the Domestic
Violence Unit, in an addiction rehabilitation centre, prisons and with homeless
families.
Seamus qualified as a Social Worker at John Moore’s University in 2003. He
also has qualifications in Family Therapy, Counselling and Health and Social
Welfare. He has specialised in working with socially excluded whole families
throughouthis career. He is currently the ServiceManager for 6 wholefamily
services within Person Shaped Support’s, Strengthening Families portfolio. He
created a Family Recovery Programmethat forms the basis for the service
delivery model for all the services hemanages.

2. Family Impactworks with 95 troubled families a year who are living with the
consequences of problematic drug and alcohol use. The Prisoners Children and
their Families serviceworks with 40 families a year living with the
consequences of family member imprisonment. The HMP AltcourseVisitor
Centre supports 51,000family prison visits a year. The Sefton Young Carers
servicesupports 75 young carer families a year. The Knowsley Siblings service
supports 25 siblings of children with disabilities’ and life limiting illnesses and
their families a year. The transitions serviceworks with around 20 young care
leavers (some of whomare young mums) a year, supporting them into family
placements and helping them make the transition to adulthood.
Seamus is actively involved with Amnesty International, is a member of the
Children of Prisoners Europe(COPE) group and is an advocate of penal reform.
He has read widely in the fields of addiction, criminal justice, psychotherapy,
philosophy and Family Therapy and has a particular interest in Narrative
Therapy and the work of Michael White and David Epston.
Away fromwork Seamus is married and has 2 children. He likes walking and is
a regular theatre goer. He likes to read modern and classic fiction and has a
passion for the poetry of W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney.