Leadership Team
The Leadership Team is employed by Certitude Support and provides Leadership and direction to Support For Living and Southside Partnership.
Aisling Duffy, Chief Executive
Now Chief Executive of the parent company Certitude Support and its subsidiaries, Support For Living and Southside Partnership. Aisling has spent her career to date working within not for profit organisations, seeking to improve opportunities for people with learning disabilities and people with mental health needs. Aisling is delighted to work with external and internal partners to ensure these ambitions are realised for individual service users and the wider organisation.
Nicholas Campbell-Watts, Director of Mental Health Services
Nicholas joined Southside Partnership in December 2004 as the Director of Fanon. With a background in the not-for-profit and statutory sector developing and providing services for people with complex health and social support needs, working with marginalised communities facing discrimination and disadvantage.
Janette Gaffney, Director of Learning Disability Services
Janette has recently joined the Learning Disability Directorate and will be based primarily in Balham. Janette previously worked as Director of Operations for a large social care and housing organisation and brings a wealth of experience. Janette started her career in the care sector on a youth training scheme working with people with autism and went on to work with people with learning dsabilities and mental health needs.
Mark Ospedale, Director of Human Resources
Mark started his career with the Royal Air Force as helicopter aircrew before moving into the field of Human Resources. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Mark is PRINCE2 and Programme Management qualified as well as holding a Masters in Business Administration. He has considerable Change Management and Human Resource experience across the commercial, NHS and voluntary sectors having worked on some of the largest technology enabled change programmes in the western hemisphere. Mark led on transformational organisation design projects with Action for Children, where he was the Deputy Director of HR prior to developing a humanitarian start up and then joining Certitude. He has been actively involved in implementing the Ulrich model of HR service delivery in a number of organisations.
Mary Schumm, Director of Learning Disability Services
Mary has over 20 years experience of working in the not-for-profit sector supporting people with learning disabilities and mental health needs. Mary joined Ealing Consortium in 1992 and has worked in the role of Care Services Director for the past 10 years. She has extensive experience in the management, appraisal and development of staff, experience in service development and reconfiguration and change management. Mary has accountability for the strategic lead in developing and providing care and support services which are responsive to peoples needs and the changing patterns of care, philosophy and legislation.
Since 2006 Mary become a Trustee of another not for profit organisation based in South London, which provides a range of services for people with mental health needs (including BME specific services) and people with learning disabilities.
Marianne Selby-Boothroyd, Director of Development
Marianne joined the organisation in 1995 as a Senior Support Worker, becoming a member of the Senior Management Team in 2001. Marianne has worked within a number of roles within the organisation and has particular experience of supporting people with complex needs, person centred approaches, organisational and staff development, as well as setting up and providing NVQ's in Care and Management. Since 2006 Marianne has been responsible for taking the strategic lead in identifying and responding to development opportunities as well as leading on organisational improvement with a particular focus on ensuring that Support For Living becomes truly person centred.
Sanjay Shah, Director of Finance and IT
Sanjay joined Southside Partnership in February 2007 as the Director of Finance. Prior to joining Southside he was the Deputy Director of Finance at the MS Society for seven years. Sanjay has extensive experience of the Health Service having worked in various senior positions in a number of NHS bodies across London.