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Commission for Disabled Staff in Lifelong Learning
Yvette Adams
Centre for Excellence in Leadership
| Yvette is a recently appointed employee of
CEL. A substantial part of her career has been spent in local government
providing HR support to front line services in social care and the
community. She has worked at one of the more senior levels of local
government for the past twenty years in four London local authorities. She
was responsible for advising on strategic issues which included, also, the
production of a comprehensive human resources’ strategy for the
directorates. Her advice covered a wide range of complex matters,
involving, amongst others, the more multi-faceted organizational change
processes. Yvette’s other managerial responsibilities included the
management of a large HR and learning and development team, the cost
centred management of a substantial budget, and, above all, the
development and maintenance of a high quality human resource service in a
context of rapid change. Yvette developed considerable experience of both initiating and managing change within organisations, implementing the change processes, and reviewing the impact of change, and this has included the full spectrum of employment policies, practices and procedures. This has meant working across organizational and professional boundaries. In Lewisham Council Yvette had a corporate race equality employment role within the human resource function, which reported directly to Members via the Chief Personnel Officer, the Chief Executive, and other Chief Officers and senior management. Yvette advised and produced a range of employment and equality strategies, policies, procedures and practices for the Council across a spectrum of employment matters. In this role I she had direct experience of working with voluntary groups and organizations, for example advising on some of their recruitment and selection policies. Yvette led partnership projects on service delivery and the impact on workforce development in three local authorities. These projects have looked at integrating all aspects of the specific service areas and the human resource implications of proposed changes. The projects have involved relevant managers and specialists from health, voluntary sector, the independent sector and other relevant external organisations and departments within the Council. The outcomes have been very effective and have been instrumental in influencing and changing the directorate. Yvette forged positive working relationships with her colleagues in the Health service and the private and voluntary sectors. She moved the ongoing integration agenda forward successfully through these projects. Yvette hope’s to contribute effectively to CEL’s development on
equalities and diversity, as well address the internal organizational
processes. Her role will be to advise and support CEL’s wide-ranging
programmes and develop an integrated approach to the equalities agenda
ensuring appropriate and relevant interventions at all levels of strategy
and policy making in the FE and Adult learning sectors. |
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