Emma qualified as a social worker in 1995. Since then, she has worked across a range of adult care settings, including hospital social work, intermediate care, ‘intake’ and ongoing support teams, both as a social worker and then as a Team Manager. Emma has also spent 4 years working in adult commissioning.

Emma has been in her current Head of Service post since 2018 and responsibilities have included setting up an Adult MASH (multi-agency safeguarding hub) as well as management of the teams at the ‘front door’ of adult care and ongoing support teams working with older people and people with disabilities, including sensory loss.