Head of Organisation, Services and Skills Department TUC since April 2013 and Director of unionlearn - January 2017.  

Leads on public services, trade union renewal, health and wellbeing, learning, skills and trade union education, regional policy and devolution, plays a key role in TUC’s broader campaign work  

Non-Executive Director – HSE. Member of the Strategic Transport Apprenticeship Taskforce and working with the Department for Education on the introduction of the National Retraining Scheme. 

Previously Northern Region Secretary of the TUC (2002-2013) and Education and Research Officer for the GMB (1997-2002)