Meet the Team
Stephen Qualified as a Teacher in 2000, completing his Post Graduate Certificate in Education at The University of Warwick. Since then he has worked across a number of special school settings in Coventry, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Birmingham and has spent over 15 years as a Headteacher at several schools. Through his career he has worked with young people with a wide range of needs, including PMLD, Complex Medical Needs, Autism, ADHD and Social Emotional Mental Health needs.
Prior to qualifying as a teacher, Stephen worked as a carer across various settings and in the community. He started this role as a Bank Auxiliary Nurse on the Children’s wards and Special Care Baby Unit at the Royal Oldham Hospital, before moving to support children and adults with learning difficulties, elderly adults with dementia and spending some time working alongside therapists to support adults in stroke rehabilitation at Rugby Saint Cross Hospital.
Stephen has always had a child and family focussed, therapeutic approach to education and has worked very closely with Links Therapy for the vast majority of his career (often being accused by the team of being a wannabe therapist, but preferring the title therapeutic educator).
Having gained Certified Trauma Informed Mental Health Practitioner status in January 2026, Stephen has now moved on from Headship in order to follow a more direct therapy based path and to support school settings and colleagues in education to promote a more trauma informed, therapeutic approach, and to meet the wider needs of the pupils in their schools more effectively.
