POD-CACHE

S3E01 - Finding your own path - Dawn talks learning, development and career progression

Hi and welcome to POD-CACHE, the portable CPD and best practice podcast from CACHE, presented by CACHEAlumni.org.uk, the award-winning professional membership network available free for those working in Care, Health and Education. 
In this episode, Dawn talks about careers, navigating the future and how you might find your next steps in Health, Care and Education using the tools you have access to as part of your CACHE Alumni membership. 
As always, you can find CACHE Alumni at www.cachealumni.org.uk and find us on Twitter and Instagram as @CACHEAlumni

S2E18 - Louise Mercieca talks us through nutrition’s role in brain development

Hi and welcome to POD-CACHE, the portable CPD and best practice podcast from CACHE, presented by CACHEAlumni.org.uk, the award-winning professional membership network available free for those working in Care, Health and Education. 
This episode of POD-CACHE is a bit of a tease...  You can find the version with Louise's presentations and graphics at www.cachealumni.org.uk, in our video resources section. 
Louise Mercieca is an award-winning Nutritional Therapist, Author and Presenter with her own food channel for EarlyYears nutrition, which you can more about here; https://www.earlyyearsfood.tv/.
She’s passionate about formative nutrition and also works with adults on preventative nutrition. You can find out more about Louise and her way of working by reading her introductory article for CACHE Alumni here; https://www.cachealumni.org.uk/article/the-impact-of-food-louise-mercieca/
As always, you can find CACHE Alumni at www.cachealumni.org.uk and find us on Twitter and Instagram as @CACHEAlumni

S2E17 - Careers, Early Years Education and a little bit of sparkle - POD-CACHE meets Annie Pendrey

Hi and welcome to POD-CACHE, the portable CPD and best practice podcast from CACHE, presented by Dawn Constance Mulvaney - from www.CACHEAlumni.org.uk, the award-winning professional membership network available free for those working in Care, Health and Education.
In this first ever video episode of POD-CACHE (there are loads of audio interviews on the audio pod!), Dawn chats with Annie Pendrey about professional development, finding our own voice and Early Years Education. Annie is the founder of the EY Professional Exchange Network, a current PhD candidate and Director of Creating Educational Spaces Ltd.
You can find Annie on Twitter and LinkedIn and can find #EYPEN events on Eventbrite!
As always, you can find CACHE Alumni at www.cachealumni.org.uk and find us on Twitter and Instagram at @CACHEAlumni and, on 7th November, you'll be able to hear Dawn talk professional development at the 10am EY Professional Exchange Network session.

S2E16 - Walking for Wellbeing - Dawn talks to @GreatNorthDave about spending time outside

Hi and welcome to POD-CACHE, the portable CPD and best practice podcast from CACHE, presented by Dawn Constance Mulvaney - Editor of www.CACHEAlumni.org.uk, the award-winning professional membership network available free for those working in Care, Health and Education. 
In this episode of POD-CACHE Dawn chats with Dave Wilson (@GreatNorthDave) about walking, wellbeing and balance. 
Dave provides a range of services in tourism and leisure including providing tours and guided walks and hikes in Northumberland and the North East.  He's also Founder of Northumberland 300. In this episode, Dave talks to Dawn about walking for wellbeing, the difference time outdoors can make to our mindset and how we might be able to get outside whilst we 'stay indoors'. 
As always, you can find CACHE Alumni at www.cachealumni.org.uk and find us on Twitter and Instagram at @CACHEAlumni
If you're looking for more inspiration to get outside, or want information about great places to walk in the North East, you can find Dave on Instagram, LinkedIn and can pre-order his book Day Walks in Northumberland, which will be available in March 2021. 

S2E15 - POD-CACHE discusses careers and employment in ’the new normal’ with Tracy Walters from Careerwave

Hi and welcome to POD-CACHE, the portable CPD and best practice podcast from CACHE, presented by Dawn Constance Mulvaney - Editor of www.CACHEAlumni.org.uk, the award-winning professional membership network available free for those working in Care, Health and Education. 
In this episode of POD-CACHE Dawn catches up with Tracy Walters, an experienced careers advisor and Director of Careerwave. 
Tracy feels strongly about professional development and has stayed passionately up to date with best practice and the world around careers.  Listen as Dawn and Tracy talk about new opportunities, the changing face of careers guidance and how employers and educators can help people to find their feet in 2020 and beyond. 
As always, you can find CACHE Alumni at www.cachealumni.org.uk and find us on Twitter and Instagram at @CACHEAlumni
If you're looking for career support, you can try Skillzminer for free on the CACHE Alumni website or you look for Careerwave on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, as well as on their website. 

S2E14 - POD-CACHE goes to WellFEst Part 4 - Stephen Mordue and Damion Wonfor

Hi and welcome to POD-CACHE, the portable CPD and best practice podcast from CACHE, presented by Dawn Constance Mulvaney - Editor of www.CACHEAlumni.org.uk, the award-winning professional membership network available free for those working in Care, Health and Education. 
In this special episode of POD-CACHE, recorded as part of the WellFEst event in summer 2020, Stephen and Damion talk Mindfulness and Resilience. 
Damion is an experienced executive coach, mindfulness trainer, coach supervisor and facilitator and is passionate about building strong relationships with clients. Damion has built a business helping individuals and teams explore their personal authenticity and emotional intelligence to make sustainable changes to their leadership behaviour. Damion brings a high degree of calm presence, support and challenge, enabling clients to fully accept and embrace change.
Stephen Mordue is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Sunderland. As well as teaching about Adult Care on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes he is Practice Learning Coordinator and Programme Leader for the Best Interests Assessment in Practice Programme. He was a social work practitioner and manager for 12 years working mainly with older people and their families. His areas of special interest are effective communication, working with people with dementia, the Mental Capacity Act, and self care and productivity for professionals. 
If you'd like to skip to (or skip) Damion's guided mindfulness exercise at the end of the podcast, you can find this at 36:29. 
Thanks to WYLP for all of their support with this special four part series from WellFEst 2020. 
WYLP are a regional network established to support and advocate all providers and colleges in the FE and Skills sector. In addition, providing a unique provider support service to support providers on their journey to outstanding. You can find their website at www.wylp.org.uk for more information on how they can support you. 
As always, you can find CACHE Alumni at www.cachealumni.org.uk and find us on Twitter and Instagram at @CACHEAlumni

S2E13 - POD-CACHE goes to WellFEst Part 3 - Mark Child and Amanda McKay

Hi and welcome to POD-CACHE, the portable CPD and best practice podcast from CACHE, presented by Dawn Newman - Editor of www.CACHEAlumni.org.uk, the award-winning professional membership network available free for those working in Care, Health and Education. 
In this special episode of POD-CACHE, recorded as part of the WellFEst event in summer 2020, Mark Child and Amanda McKay talk about being part of the LGBTQ community.
Mark described his experience of coming out and the responses he received from family, friends and colleagues – some of which refused to work with him or speak to him again – all for just being himself. This is the motivation for the of “Just being me” campaign being developed by Mark and his passion for ensuring better acceptance and workplace support exists for the LGBTQ community.
We then heard from Amanda, who gave a detailed story of her journey with transitioning from Martin to Amanda. Amanda transitioned later in life but always felt from the young age of 7 that she was destined to be female and chose the name Amanda at the age of 8. 
Amanda is passionate about providing a voice to the trans community and works with a range of groups and volunteering roles to support trans people, particularly in the engineering sector.
Thanks to WYLP for all of their support with this special four part series from WellFEst 2020. 
WYLP are a regional network established to support and advocate all providers and colleges in the FE and Skills sector. In addition, providing a unique provider support service to support providers on their journey to outstanding. You can find their website at www.wylp.org.uk for more information on how they can support you. 
As always, you can find CACHE Alumni at www.cachealumni.org.uk and find us on Twitter and Instagram at @CACHEAlumni

S2E12 - POD-CACHE goes to WellFEst Part 2 - Louise Mercieca and Rebecca Connolly

Louise Mercieca is an award-winning Nutritional Therapist, Author and Presenter with her own food channel for Early Years nutrition, which you can more about here; https://www.earlyyearsfood.tv/.
She’s passionate about formative nutrition and also works with adults on preventative nutrition. You can find out more about Louise and her way of working by reading her introductory article for CACHE Alumni here; https://www.cachealumni.org.uk/article/the-impact-of-food-louise-mercieca/
Rebecca Connolly is a Professional British Boxer managed by Paddy Fitzpatrick. Super bantam / Featherweight division / Rifleman British Army. 
In this special episode of POD-CACHE, recorded as part of WellFEst in Leeds in summer of 2020, Louise and Rebecca share what wellness means to them and discuss how nutrition and exercise really impact on our lives. 
Thanks to WYLP for all of their support with this special four part series from WellFEst 2020. 
WYLP are a regional network established to support and advocate all providers and colleges in the FE and Skills sector. In addition, providing a unique provider support service to support providers on their journey to outstanding. You can find their website at www.wylp.org.uk for more information on how they can support you. 
As always, you can find CACHE Alumni at www.cachealumni.org.uk and find us on Twitter and Instagram as @CACHEAlumni
 

S2E11 - Dawn learns about Skillzminer and talks employability with Kirsty and Dan

Hi and welcome to POD-CACHE, the portable CPD and best practice podcast from CACHE, presented by Dawn Newman - Editor of www.CACHEAlumni.org.uk, the award-winning professional membership network available free for those working in Care, Health and Education. 
This week Dawn returns to her roots as an employability advisor and talks about careers and the future of work with Kirsty Mitchell and Daniel Bartley from Skillzminer - a revolutionary new tool to support people to identify their skills and create career pathways to employment. 
Join Dawn as she finds out how algorithmic exploration, automated job matching and virtual coaching can make a difference to anyone at a career crossroads.
If you would like to join CACHE Alumni, the association for professional caregivers, you can find us at www.cachealumni.org.uk.  
Membership is free and you'll find lots more examples of best practice, great sector insight and opinion from subject specialists across Care, Education and Early Years as well as discounts and access to other member benefits, like free access to Skillzminer!
You can find Skillzminer online at the CACHE Alumni website and should find Skillzminer on LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube. 
You can follow Dawn on Twitter at @DawnConnieM and on LinkedIn as Dawn Constance Mulvaney and, as always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram for information and updates about CACHE Alumni and POD-CACHE.
 
Until next time, take care. 

S2E10 - POD-CACHE goes to WellFEst Part 1 - Susanna Lawson

Susanna started her career as a psychology graduate from the University of Manchester, and went on to work with adults with learning difficulties. Susanna then had to complete an NVQ in care to prove her practical competencies – and her involvement in vocational training began.
After completing her NVQ levels 2 and 3, she soon moved up the ranks, and was appointed the National Contract Manager for an independent training provider, overseeing 1,000 apprentices across the UK. Throughout her journey she witnessed huge inefficiencies at every stage of the sector, and together with her partner decided to build a solution: OneFile.
In this special episode of POD-CACHE, recorded as part of the WellFEst event in summer 2020, Susanna talks to an online audience about finding her own path, growing teams and the challenges of finding balance in a full life. 
Thanks to WYLP for all of their support with this special four part series from WellFEst 2020. 
WYLP are a regional network established to support and advocate all providers and colleges in the FE and Skills sector. In addition, providing a unique provider support service to support providers on their journey to outstanding. You can find their website at www.wylp.org.uk for more information on how they can support you. 
As always, you can find CACHE Alumni at www.cachealumni.org.uk and find us on Twitter and Instagram at @CACHEAlumni