Kellie Meharry

Dedicated Health and Social Care professional with over 15 years' industry experience and recent specialization in assessment and coaching within further education. Experienced SVQ Assessor supporting learners at Levels 2 and 3, with a strong understanding of qualification frameworks, assessment standards, and inclusive teaching practices. Brings extensive real-world care experience, including leadership at management level—into teaching delivery, ensuring learners develop both theoretical knowledge and practical competence.

Passionate about developing future care professionals through supportive coaching, constructive feedback, and high-quality assessment aligned with regulatory and awarding body requirements.

SVQ Assessor Development Coach - Impact Futures

(2024-05)

• Supporting and assessing health and social care staff in completing SVQs.
• Coaching learners to develop professional skills, improve practice, and maintain compliance.
• Specializing in teaching dementia skills, safeguarding, health and safety, communication and much more relating to the health and social care sector.
• Meeting monthly KPI's and targets
• Continual standardization of practice through independent learning or through the company

Care Home Manager - HC-One

(2023-06 - 2024-01)

• Managed daily operations of a care home, ensuring high standards of resident care.
• Oversaw staffing, training, budgeting, and audits.
• Liaised with inspectors and external professionals to maintain compliance.
• Dealing with issues within the home and building those relationships with residents, staff and families.

Care Home Manager - Enhance Healthcare

(2022-04 - 2023-05)

• Managed care home operations, including quality assurance, helped in dealing with HR processes, and safeguarding.
• Improved staff training completion rates and enhanced team performance.
• Meeting KPI and targets.

Project Manager - The Mungo Foundation

(2020-01 - 2022-04)

• Managed residential services supporting adults with complex needs.
• Led teams through inspections and audits, achieving compliance targets.
• Implemented strategies to improve care planning and individualized support.
• Completed investigations and disciplinary investigations.
• Utilized the care inspectorate framework to create a plan to achieve high standards, bringing the service forward ready for their next inspection.
• Created a strategy around Psychologically informed environments and trauma informed care.

Team Leader - The Mungo Foundation

(2018-01 - 2020-04)

• Supported the manager and the team in achieving targets, grades and being part of a wider team.
• Brought focus into the workplace around workplace mental health
• Helped drive innovation and change to the service, service users and staff through workshops and groups around sustainability and living skills.
• Completed ASSIT training, Autism, Challenging behavior, conflict resolution and many more.

Senior Nursing Assistant & Home Trainer - Four Seasons Health Care

(2013-01 - 2018-12)

• Delivered in-house training to staff across multiple disciplines, my previous experience as a carer helped me to understand staffs understanding and learning of the role.
• Supported care delivery and contributed to maintaining high care standards.

SVQ Level 4 - Health & Social Care

SVQ Level 4 - Leadership & Management

SVQ Levels 2 & 3 - Health & Social Care

Assessor Award - L&D9D1

AET Education & Training Award - RQF Level 3

GCSE - English, Maths, Biology, French, Art