I am an experienced assessor and trainer, delivering retail, customer service and business administration from level 2 to Level 4. I have been working in the industry for the last seven years and started working with Realise in October 2018. I have a bachelor degree in economics and masters in business administration. I have more than 10 years of experience in retail and business administration. Ever since I have moved into this role, I have enjoyed it immensely as it has been both challenging and rewarding at the same time. I always try to keep myself extremely organised and have a flexible approach to my workload.

I am a proud dad of two lovely kids and love to enjoy my time with my family. Besides my work and family life, it’s all about sport. sport is my passion and hobby. I love to watch football, cricket and tennis. I am a die-hard fan of Manchester United and closely follow English County Championships. I am also a big fan of Roger Federer.

I am a trainer at Realise delivering associate project manager. After working in operations and projects for over 20 years, it is great to share my experiences and knowledge and you can’t beat that feeling of seeing confidence grow in an individual on the programme.

Hi, I’m Raylia and I have been a qualified Tutor-trainer/Assessor for over 16 years delivering teaching and learning within the private and public sectors. During my time working in this field, I have designed and delivered diverse apprenticeship and training programmes covering a variety of topics and subjects. I have guided and trained hundreds of individuals to achieve their goals and aspirations, whether this be a qualification, a promotion, new employment or just providing support where needed.

I am an enthusiastic and engaging individual who thrives on the success of others achieving their potential and exceeding their expectations.  I believe learning should be challenging but should be an enjoyable and rewarding experience at the same time.

I have been in work based learning for nearly 15 years and seen many changes, with the move across to standards the most significant and I feel this has added real value to the apprentice programmes we deliver. Being a curriculum lead I have also had the opportunity to create bespoke delivery models so that every apprenticeship journey can be different and suit the learners and their employers in the best possible way and support them to end point assessment.

I am a training and development officer at Realise. I deliver customer service and business administrator standards to a range of different learners in varied work settings, including EE and DWP.

I am a training and development officer for the APM apprenticeship. I work closely with our learners supporting their process. Helping with progress by meeting with them on a regular basis, providing feedback on their written submissions and helping them towards final stages for their EPA, procuring to exploit their full potential.

I have worked in education for many years starting off as a British Sign Language Interpreter to working in apprenticeships, business development and managing a work experience department. I work with level 4 project management apprentices, I enjoy supporting apprentices and seeing them achieve and progress in their careers.

I have a vast experience in trade, entertainment and retail. I took the plunge back in 2007 to become an assessor and never looked back. I qualified as an assessor back in 2007 and I have loved teaching and learning for the last 16 years and the last five years at Realise. Which I have to say has been an experience that I have enjoyed most out of my training career.

I am a qualified and experienced trainer with 23 years of experience in the industry and almost 15 of these with Realise! With extensive experience in customer service, retail and business administration, working in these sectors since the age of 15. I have a plethora of knowledge and skills to support learners at various stages of their career. Along with my excellent and cheery communication skills, I love supporting people and it is a pleasure to see them succeed in achieving their goals and aspirations.

I started my career as a management trainee in retail, so I know what it is like to work and do a qualification at the same time.

At the end of my training programme, I progressed from supervisor right through to senior management level. This progression has meant I have learnt and developed a great portfolio of business skills; customer service, business administration, retail and management. I chose to move into apprenticeships in 2007 because I wanted to share my industry knowledge and skills to help develop and support others just starting out in their careers or progressing in their workplace.

I returned back to the retail industry in 2016 as an operations manager to further enhance and enrich my skills and knowledge.

My love of training and development has never left me hence joining Realise in 2022. I enjoy seeing individuals learn and grow in their role and I love being an integral part of their development.

I have worked in training and development for 13 years, supporting and encouraging people to reach their potential is the part of my job I enjoy the most! I have a wide range of occupational competence built up over 20 years before changing over to the training sector and have stayed with the same company ever since. I love to share my experience and knowledge with others and see them achieve their goals. Realise is a great company to work for, they take care of their staff and their apprentices, and I wouldn’t want to work anywhere else.

I work as a senior training and development officer in the business skills sector and I have over 15 years’ experience within the industry, I have worked here at Realise for just over 3 years. As well as supporting my performance manager, I work on the BT contract delivering customer service and retail management apprenticeships in Openreach and EE.

Hi, I’m Dylan.

A dedicated Partnership Executive with a rich background in the retail management sector, with a passion for fostering growth and development my role at Realise revolves around engaging with clients and their employees to unlock the full potential of apprenticeship programmes and career progression within current work placements.

I bring a wealth of experience and insight to the table, having navigated the dynamic landscape of retail management for 10 years. Throughout my career, I have honed my skills in building meaningful relationships and identifying opportunities for collaborative success.

Having started my further education as an apprentice and working in the sector for 18 years, I am passionate about working with people to provide good quality education and opportunities to learn. I have spent time supporting those operationally and helping to manage the delivery of apprenticeships and now in my current role as Key Account Manager focusing on the strategic development working closely with a number of our major clients to help support them and develop their teams. I am a keen football fan and enjoy coaching both of my son’s team and at amateur level.

Over 20 years ago my career in training started by working with the unemployed including school leavers and adults. From this start point, I have worked in various roles across training including developing new programmes for delivery, assisting to launch a new training provider and the development of a hospitality academy within a hotel. Managing projects has been at the heart of everything I have done and this has helped with the development of the APM apprenticeship. My main role now is to oversee the development and delivery of our associate project management apprenticeship to support apprentices to become efficient, successful project managers.

I am a qualified health and social care trainer who has 21 years experience within the sector.

I have worked at Realise for 6 years as a trainer within the hair and barbering sector. I have recenly also taken on the roles of social values champion and safeguarding and wellbeing deputy. I love what I do and have a great passion for hairdressing and also supporting other people. My passion is being able to deliver apprenticeships to learners and seeing them develop from having no knowledge or skills to then thriving in the industry as confident and fully qualified hairdressers and barbers.

I started with Realise in 2021 as a trainer for hairdressing and barbering. I have previously delivered these qualifications at colleges. I love passing on my knowledge and passion to our learners entering the industry. I thoroughly enjoy my role and working with such an amazing team with the same passion as myself.

I am part of the fantastic north west health and social care team. I started to work with the company nine years ago and during this time I have seen many changes – all for the better! I have seen the sector grow and develop into what it is today. I currently deliver the level 2 and 3 apprenticeships and I have my qualifications for the quality assurrance position. My specialist subject is the mental health sector of which I have many years experience. I also deliver the functional skills English and maths. Realise has supported me to be the best that I can be and always supports and encourages personal growth.

I have been working in the social care sector since I was 19. Starting off as a care co-ordinator and community carer and progressing onto be a registered manager at 23. I trained to become an assessor after being a manager for five years. I have been assessing now for 8 years with Realise. I love my role being able to support carers to better themselves and the role has definitely evolved in the past eight years!

I am a health and social care assessor and I have been in the training sector completing apprenticeships and delivering learning since October 2013, in this time have also been involved in course development and delivery of learning for a wide variety of subjects. I have been in the care sector since 2004 where I was the homes deputy manager and I have both my assessors and my teaching qualifications.

I have 19 years’ experience in passenger transport as a driver, mentor, supervisor and trainer. I have worked for Realise as a trainer since January 2020. My role gives me great opportunities to share the knowledge and skills that I have developed over the last 19 years in passenger transport. Working with and supporting new and established drivers to give them the confidence, knowledge and skills needed to become a professional driver in the bus industry.

I have worked within Education since 2020, following 7 years working in the financial sector. My working life began with an apprenticeship – which has enabled me to relate to many learners and support them on their journey.

My role now of an employment support officer is to guide, support, and engage learners with prospective employers to enable them to kickstart their careers within the public transport sector.

In my spare time, I enjoy watching football, spending time with my fiancée and family as well as reading a good book in the sun!

I work here with Realise as a transport sector training and development officer, delivering quite a dynamic and yet informative level 2 professional qualification. Much like other trainers, as a PCV Driver, I have an accumulation of 12 years experience, across different companies, I have worked duties that have covered urban, suburban, rural, and motorway routes. All of this put together with other background experiences, I look forward to assisting in the security and development of job opportunities for new vocational drivers.

I am a highly enthusiastic, creative and self-motivated training professional, specialising in the bus and coach industry. Combining both industry knowledge and training experience to achieve personal and business objectives. A confident and innovative facilitator who successfully encourages others to engage in learning and development at all levels. With over 40 years experience in the bus and coach industry which includes over 20 years as a trainer, I strive to provide the opportunities for each and every learner to succeed.
I was the first trainer in the country to have learners achieve their end point assessment in the passenger transport apprenticeship, something I am immensely proud of.

I started driving local buses in 2006. Since then I have progressed to service manager, revenue protection and finally into training around 2015. I even drove National Express coaches for a while! At Realise I deliver workshops to level 2 bus driver apprentices and support them with their development.

I have been working at Realise for over 13 years. In this time, I qualified to become a trainer assessor.

I deliver level 2 and level 3 qualifications. I strive to help support each learner to achieve their qualifications and help them to achieve their future goals to become good practitioners that are proud to work alongside children in their care.

My passion is knowing how children learn and keeping them safe. I hope to pass on that passion. I am always learning new information to help me to update myself to become a good trainer and I feel I am a good team player when supporting my colleagues.

I have been a qualified childcare trainer assessor for 15 years, prior to this I gained 10 years’ experience as a practitioner as well as management in early years. I have a degree in education as well as quality assurance qualifications and more recently qualified to deliver first aid.

My name is Tracey King, and I am a trainer assessor for Realise.  I have worked in early years for 24+ years, initially starting out as a registered childminder before moving on to an early years development worker role and spending some time working for children’s services.  I am an experienced early years tutor and assessor.  I am always in awe at the enthusiasm early years worker’s have for their role.  My favourite quote is ‘If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm’ – Bruce Barton.

In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my family and pets and exploring new places on holiday.

I am into my 13th year as a Trainer Assessor, i have experience of managing 2 private day nurseries and have a lot f passion for childcare. I want to be able to share that passion with apprentices and help to teach and guide them into being .competent practitioners. I am also a qualified Paediatric First Aid trainer and deliver this alongside the standard qualifications.

I’m a qualified childcare trainer who has 10 years’ experience within the industry. I have a degree in childhood studies and I spent three years prior to that working in a nursery working my way up from nursery nurse to deputy manager before making the leap into education – where I’ve never looked back. I love supporting others to achieve their goals within childcare.

I am a Childcare Trainer with over 22 years experience in Childcare. I have had varied roles and experience including; working in a school, private day nursery, special educational needs support and Children’s & Young People’s Services before becoming an Assessor. I have been assessing for 12 years, I specialise as a Safeguarding Deputy.

I am a trainer assessor here at Realise. I hold over 13 years of experience in early years and have gained experience in the sector, through the many different roles. Starting my career as a room leader and working my way up to a nursery manager. I have now taken a leap into assessing and have a great passion for this! I enjoy supporting learners in achieving their apprenticeship and being part of their early years journey. Seeing the learner’s development and the real impact they make within the sector is amazing.

I am a passionate learner and enjoy passing on my knowledge to others, so teaching is a perfect career for me! I have worked in the early years sector for over 25 years, starting as a newly qualified practitioner, nannying in London (spreading my wings and having fun!) over the years, moving on to more senior roles in early years settings, and eventually managing nurseries. 10 years ago I decided I wanted to change course and moved into post-16 education. Through hard work and dedication, I completed my studies and started working in the early years apprenticeship sector. I have since specialised in safeguarding and currently support the safeguarding team here at Realise alongside my teaching. All the while being a mother and wife. I have loved every minute of it and look forward to supporting more apprentices on their early years journey

I have worked in a variety of early years settings over the past 30 years while raising my own family. For the past couple of years, I have enjoyed working as an assessor and passing on my experience and knowledge to others. I have a passion for early years, and enjoy working with apprentices, watching them learn and grow into confident early years practitioners.

I am a childcare assessor. Out of work, I enjoy my time with my children and family. We have started playing more board games now, going on longer walks and all the activities children attend, football etc. For my personal relaxing time, I like watching Netflix or socialising with friends.

My name is Sarah, I have previously worked in early years for 9 and a half years in a private day nursery, working up to deputy manager there. I am looking forward to my journey with Realise and supporting learners to achieve their goals.

I am a qualified trainer assessor for childcare. My experience is within early years settings, where I was a nursery manager, room leader and deputy. My experience, gained in the last 25 years, has given me the passion and commitment to give something back and be that trainer for my specialist subjects.

I have come a long way in my current role, my confidence has grown with Realise, I am delivering many webinars across the early years educator and teaching assistant standards. I always look forward to seeing my learners going into gateway and achieving their apprenticeships which makes me feel like a very proud trainer when they do.

I have always had a passion for supporting and teaching others, I started working in a nursery, my first role was as an assistant I was able to become fully qualified and work my way up throughout the nursery to management.

I enjoyed each and every responsibility that came my way, as I also pride myself on my work and progress I make along the way. I have worked with children 0-5 years for 8 years I have been teaching for 5 years in total now. I love seeing what I teach being put into practice by our learners, seeing them achieve and move to new levels makes me feel like I have achieved a new level myself.

I started my early years journey back in 1998, when I joined a voluntary committee of my daughter’s pre-school. I later chaired the committee before completing my level 3, as a work-based qualification, and then my degree and early years teacher status, as I worked my way up to manage the setting.

I moved over to teaching and assessing early years apprenticeships back in 2013 and my passion about people and supporting their development and learning (whether young or old) is still at the heart of what I do every day.  As an ex-manager, I know how hard it is to find good reliable staff that understand what it is to be an effective practitioner or educator, so this has also become my mission.  Listening to employers’ needs is where I start the process.

Before working for Realise, I had been nursery based for over 7 years. I have worked in everything from large, 250 children, work-place nurseries, to small private nurseries with 6 babies to a room. Before this I worked as a youth and children’s worker in a community centre. I am a qualified early years teacher with a passion for infant mental health, gaining a MA from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Mental Health Trust.

I am a passionate and motivated trainer who loves to help others become the best that they can be. I am a qualified teacher and have worked in all aspects of the childcare sector from being a nanny to nursery settings. I love developing curriculum and supporting learning as part of my job role!

I have been in the hair and barbering industry for over 21 years. I have always had a real passion for teaching with quality at the heart of what I do. It’s the best feeling seeing the end result for a learner, after working with them throughout their journey.
I am currently the lead trainer for our new advanced and creative hairdressing level 3, it’s an amazing qualification and I’m proud to be delivering it and to have played a part in developing it!

I’ve worked in the further education sector, been head of faculty for both early years and health and social care, worked as external verifier to meet national standards for early years and have had educational materials published. I now support the childcare learners with their functional skills and the learner is at the heart of everything I do, tailoring the delivery to meet the learners needs so they can achieve their exams in maths and English, building confidence in every individual to develop skills and life opportunities.