Sara - Regional Services Manager

"It's an honour to be a part of SeeAbility. It's as simple as that".

After 20 years supporting people with learning disabilities gives you a wide range of experiences, reflections and changing practice. You could almost say, "I've been around!" After that length of time , you would hope to know yourself professionally and be able to identify your value base within your working practice. With this in mind, it has become important to me that any service I work within has a sound value base with service users at the very heart of the matter. I have found this in SeeAbility. So, I chose SeeAbility and they chose me.

From the very first contact, a professional yet warm approach was always taken. You are important to the organisation and this is expressed through all levels in every department. A willingness from your colleagues to inform and support, share and debate, to move forward and to improve. It's important to SeeAbility that you are successful in your role.

Of course, it's always nerve racking when you first meet your colleagues, at local and regional level. Everyone wants to be accepted and those first meetings were important to me. What would people think? Could I prove myself? I should not have worried. Colleagues were pleased to welcome me, were reassuring and friendly, keen to support and ensure that I knew where to access information should I need to. It gives me a huge sense of security to know that I belong to such an informed and professional team.

It doesn't matter what level or position you hold in the organisation, you are important. Training opportunities are well considered and informative. It's pleasing to see that experiential learning opportunities are promoted and it is a pleasure to be involved in training and meet colleagues from other services where good practice can be shared.

SeeAbility are committed to moving forward, to developing new and existing services, to making positive change. Who wants to belong to an organisation that isn't? It's ok to be creative in SeeAbility, in fact, it's encouraged and celebrated. This pleases me.

Would I recommend SeeAbility as a potential employer? Of course and without hesitation.