My HR career began at Abbey International Offshore in 1999. Two years later I moved to London and worked for an online retailer at the height of the dot.com bubble. Here I developed my first employee handbook but the dot.com bubble burst and alongside the HR Director I had the difficult task of making the whole workforce redundant.

In 2002 I returned to Jersey and Abbey International Offshore in the role of HR Consultant. In preparation for the impending Employment (Jersey) Law 2003, I was responsible for ensuring that all their employment contracts and HR policies were compliant and preparing their first employee handbook - this is where my love for policy writing started and my passion for their impact began.

Since then, I’ve had a rewarding career with the States of Jersey, which has given me extensive exposure to a diverse set of stakeholders, business areas, HR projects and initiatives. I’ve held the following positions - Employee Relations Manager, HR Manager for Medical Consultants and Doctors (Health & Community Services), HR Business Partner (Education, Sport and Culture), and most recently Strategic HR Business Partner heading up the Employee Experience specialism. In this role, I had sole responsibility for people policy across a workforce of circa 8,000.

When COVID-19 hit in March 2020 – I was responsible for writing and publishing FAQs and guidance for all employees, across all departments to help them navigate all of the scenarios that COVID-19 brought to the public sector workplace, specifically in relation to terms and conditions of employment and interim policy measures.