Jackie Denyer
Managing Director
Jackie has a background of working at the Training & Enterprise Council, Learning & Skills Council, Business Link, SEEDA and Surrey County Council and is a qualified Project Manager. She leads with the business management, marketing and bids for the various funding streams we have access to. Working closely with clients, key stakeholders and partners, Jackie brings the latest developments and funding opportunities to all of our clients.
John O’Sullivan
Non-Executive Director
John has held several senior position within the UK retail business, almost entirely within the Sainsbury’s organisation.
Following retirement from corporate life become MD of his own company spending several years in the Financial services sector in derivative trading & training.
Chrissy Payne
Associate Director
Chrissy has over 10 years’ experience in the FE sector with assessing and delivery at the heart of this experience. Chrissy heads up the sales and marketing side of PTS, whilst supporting the day to day running of the business.
Chrissy is passionate about making a positive impact to employers and learners that work with PTS.
Leanne Edwards
Head of Operations
Leanne has a passion for education and training, both personally and professionally and has spent more than 10 years working and consulting in the further education sector. Leanne oversees the delivery, quality, compliance, business support, subcontracting and HR operations within the business. Embracing and implementing change and managing projects to continuously evolve and improve as a business to provide the best possible experience for our staff, learners, employers and stakeholders.
Neil Hardie
Director
With over 25 years of successfully managing small businesses, Neil oversees the finance & IT of Professional Training Solutions ensuring the business remains efficient & profitable. Managing the complexities of government funding is a real challenge, and one we embrace whilst trying to meet the needs of our clients. Neil has also overseen the implementation of a range of new systems & processes over the last few years as we evolve with technological change.
Sharon Lock
Director
With responsibility for the full curriculum and training programme within Professional Training Solutions, as well as quality and working with our awarding bodies and clients, Sharon is a qualified and experienced tutor and trainer as well as an Early Years Professional. Sharon writes and designs all our programmes ensuring they are of the highest quality, something we pride ourselves in.
Dee Hughes
Executive Assistant
Dee has a wealth of experience as an EA/PA & Officer Manager, previously working quite extensively within the legal sector. Dee provides executive assistance to all Directors, ensuring processes are effective and timely. Dee helps to organise business-related tasks for the team including meetings, reports and other organisational tasks.
Laura Toft
Human Resources Executive
Laura has been working within Human Resources for the last three years having previously worked within administrative roles in the FE sector. She manages all staff policies and procedures alongside recruitment. Laura is also passionate about looking after the welfare and wellbeing of the Professional Training Solutions team.
Amanda Main
Functional Skills & Business Programme Manager
As a qualified teacher and English and Maths GCSE Tutor, Amanda is a key member of our team ensuring our learners have the required literacy, numeracy and ICT skills for them to do their jobs, as well as meeting the requirements of the Apprenticeship programmes for functional skills.
Paige Hewitt
Digital Marketing Executive
Paige is responsible for using digital channels to generate leads and build brand awareness. Her day to day tasks includes SEO, email marketing, designing campaigns and posting on relevant social platforms. Beyond this, Paige also uses measurable analytics to identify ways to improve the performance of our digital strategy.
Jo Harding
Business Support Coordinator
Jo has a wealth of experience working for large corporate organisations in customer service and analytical positions. Jo’s responsibilities include day to day coordination and management of key business activities to meet compliance, customer expectations, and company goals.
Kate Cheyne
Business Support Administrator
Kate is part of the Business Support Administration team at Professional Training Solutions. She is responsible for the administration of our learners funded under the Adult Education budget. Kates role includes screening applications, the enrolment process, learner registrations and supporting the functional skills team. She works closely with both Amanda Main and Chrissy Payne.
Rachel Fry
Exam Coordinator
Rachel is our Exam Coordinator and is responsible for all exams processes. She works closely with our chosen awarding bodies and end point assessment organisations to ensure processes are seamless for learners to receive their qualifications.
Lucy Traversari
Recruitment & Sales Executive
Lucy oversees our new business, working closely with clients. Lucy helps to guide them through the recruitment of an apprentice from their first enquiry to the successful placement of an apprentice ensuring the process is seamless. Lucy works closely with Jackie Denyer, Chrissy Payne and Paige Hewitt.
Becci Fryer
Tutor and Assessor
Becci started with Professional Training Solutions as a learner in 2010 after completing her A1 assessor’s award following many years working in education and childcare. Becci then progressed onto a freelance assessor and joined as a full-time member of staff in 2018. She now tutors for the childcare team in Teaching Assisting and Early Year qualifications.
Alex Collins
Bookkeeper
Alex is our bookkeeper with responsibility of managing the day-day accounts for the business, to ensure everything is both accurate and recorded. Alex is currently studying for his chartered accountancy exam.
Robyn Smith
Education and Childcare Programme Manager
Robyn is the Programme Manager for the Education and Childcare sector at PTS and has worked in training and education since 2014 managing learners and assessors. She has experience in Apprenticeship, AEB and traineeship programmes in a range of sectors and also coordinates the suite of First Aid courses. As a qualified Tutor and Assessor in management, operations and first aid qualifications, she oversees the Childcare assessors support employers and learners to succeed in their learning journey.
Malachi Small
Employability Coach
Malachi is a trained and qualified assessor. He has an extensive background in Hospitality delivering both back of house and front of house provision. Malachi is a key member of the Functional Skills and Business team delivering employability programmes to Kickstarter’s aged 16-24. Malachi has a passion for assessing and coaching learners through there learner journey.
Rachel Chamberlain
Tutor and Assessor
Rachel forms a part of the Functional Skills team. As a qualified teacher, she enjoys delivering literacy and numeracy skills to her learners; working in a group and with individuals, to guide them towards achieving their Functional Skills qualifications.
Preeti Singla
Tutor and Assessor
Preeti forms a part of the Functional Skills team. She works closely with apprentices and AEB learners to ensure they have achieved their English and Maths qualifications to be able to progress in their respective careers.
Vicky Summers
Tutor and Assessor
Vicky forms a part of the Health and Social Care team and is responsible for meeting with learners to support them through their apprenticeships, providing training either remotely or face to face. Vicky provides tasks and feedback to learners, ensuring they are successful with their learning.
Tammy Gibson
Tutor and Assessor
Tammy has over 14 years’ experience working in nurseries settings, and in 2020 she qualified as an Early Years assessor. Tammy roles and responsibilities include working with learners, ensuring they are succeeding in their learning. Tammy specialises in teaching and assessing the Early Years Practitioner Level 2 and the Early Years Educator Level 3.
Graham Beardmore
Tutor and Assessor
Graham forms a part of the Functional Skills team. He works closely with learners to ensure they have achieved their English and Maths qualifications to be able to progress in their respective careers. Grahams roles and responsibilities include lesson planning, delivering remote learning, exam preparation and invigilating.
Marsha Maitland
Tutor and Assessor
Marsha started with Professional Training Solutions in 2013 as a learner and went on to complete her A1 assessor’s award with PTS. Marsha started as Freelance in 2013 and became a full-time member of staff in 2018, she is now an assessor in the Childcare and Teaching Assistants team.
Iara Cavaca
New Business Executive
Iara’s roles and responsibilities include assisting Lucy and Paige within Sales and Marketing. Iara plays a key part in supporting companies towards the Kickstart Scheme. Her day to day tasks includes overseeing National Apprenticeship Service, posting job vacancies on relevant social platforms and requesting CVs from applicants.
Joanna Makarewicz
Training Manager
Joanna has Twenty years’ experience in Apprenticeship, work-based learning, and the FE sector. She has a passion for supporting the development of individuals, powering potential, and improving social mobility. As the Training & Quality Manager at PTS, Joanna oversees all elements of the delivery team, driving innovative solutions to learning and ensuring quality standards and kite marks are maintained to provide the best possible experience for our learners, employers, stakeholders, and staff.
Fatai Oseni
ESF Partner and Employer Engagement Officer
Fatai is responsible for partner and employer engagement of our ESF Programme. Fatai works with key partners and stakeholders – agreeing and implementing strategies to recruit new learners onto the programme. Fatai offers a total training solution, including apprenticeships and Traineeships to all employers. Fatai works closely with the marketing team to develop and implement strategies for the programme.
Karen Butler
ESF Project Manager
Karen has over 30 experience working in the training and education sector, mostly in a local government setting. Karen is responsible for the ESF project, managing the team and performance to ensure seamless and quality driven provision is available to all our participating learners.
Sarah Pledger
HR Support
Sarah is a university graduate, recently having joined Professional Training Solutions as HR Support. Sarah plays a key part in supporting the HR department with audits, recruitment and general day to day tasks.
Zoe Perry
HR Support
Zoe has joined Professional Training Solutions as HR Support. Zoe looks forward to progressing her career through the kickstart scheme. As a member of the HR team, her role includes assisting with recruitment to updating employee documents.
Daniella Asamoah-Manu
Enrolment Co-Ordinator
Daniella acts as the point of contact for candidates looking to enrol on an apprenticeship or training course with Professional Training Solutions. Offering the information advice and guidance for the relevant course and taking them through the onboarding process.
Ifat Saeed
Skills Coach
Ifat is the Skills Coach for Residential Childcare. Ifats roles and responsibilities include working with learners, providing relevant support and ensuring they are succeeding in their learning.
Jay Crabb
Sales Manager
Jay began his career in work-based learning and as a result has a passion for supporting employers with identifying tailored training and funding solutions, along with providing learners with real learning and development opportunities via experiential learning. Jay leads the sale and recruitment team in developing sustainable partnerships through providing win-win solutions and consultive selling techniques to forge mutually beneficial partnerships. Jay wants to now support PTS in continuing to be a market leader in work-based learning and help inspire employers and learners to achieve their goals.
Emon Ambia
Data & compliance Coordinator
Emon is responsible for developing reports for various teams within PTS and supports with reconciliation. Previously, Emon worked for several training providers and FE Colleges and has gained a wealth of knowledge and experience in the sector relating to funding and compliance across multiple streams.
Nicki Owen
Marketing Manager
Nicki joined PTS as their Marketing Manager to enable the business to grow through an integrated brand and communication strategy aligned with sales. A cross-channel professional marketeer with over 25 years business experience, she started out as an apprentice at British Gas and has since worked at IBM UK, The Goodwood Estate, Denplan and more recently as a self-employed consultant helping businesses of all sizes to benefit from marketing communications.
Ann O’Rourke
Quality Manager
Ann has worked with Apprenticeship and FE delivery for over 15 years and brings a wealth of experience in quality assurance. Education is her passion, and she implements the highest standards and the most streamlined systems to ensure that students, employers, stakeholders and staff experience the ultimate quality from the sign up write through to destination. As Quality Manager she leads on all quality procedures within PTS from delivery to compliance, working closely with all internal departments, external awarding bodies and quality Matrix to ensure that we are constantly exceeding standards.
Andrew Hawkins
Employability Coach
As an Employability Coach, Andrew is responsible for carrying out teaching, learning and assessment of work-based learners completing traineeship programmes. Andrew provides learners with engaging teaching ensuring it maximizes their progression into the workplace, aiming for employment or further education.
