Our People
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John Osazuwa – Executive Director
John Osazuwa has been in the Military with the British Army for over 18years as a logistician. He has been to various deployments and operations and has undertaken various projects within the Ministry of Defence such as supporting new recruits and instilling discipline. John enjoys working with new recruits and has served as a role model to many soldiers. He is one of the Diversity & Inclusion Adviser (DIA), Casualty Notification Officer (CNO) and Casualty Visiting Officer (CVO) within the Ministry of Defence. John has supported many vulnerable families particularly when they experience difficulties such as life changing injuries and bereavement. John is married with three children and passionate about helping young people to achieve their full potentials.
Lauren Osazuwa, Director
Lauren Osazuwa is a qualified social worker with vast experience in working with vulnerable people particularly young people, children and their families and adults within the public; private and voluntary sector. Lauren has particular expertise in working with young people leaving care and adults. Lauren has worked in various capacities within different local authorities and is very passionate about achieving better outcomes for young people leaving care and vulnerable adults. Lauren has been involved in different transformation projects within local authorities. Lauren is a mum with three awesome children.
Efosa Efiannayi, Strategic Adviser
Efosa is a finance professional with over 10 years’ experience in both government and private sectors e.g. Local authorities, retails and facilities management. She has significant experience in dealing with Local Authority financial affairs. As a qualified Chartered accountant FCCA, Efosa brings significant expertise towards ensuring that Nivalo Care Services Limited Offers Commissioners value for money while providing an efficient and quality driven service. Efosa is married with two children and is passionate about helping young people to achieve their full potentials.
Staff
Our staff are our strongest assets and the core of our service. We are committed to investing in our staff learning and development to ensure that they are confident in carryout high quality service to our young people. Our staff will receive comprehensive training in number of areas including:
- Child Protection
- Safeguarding Young People
- Mental Health and Wellbeing in Children and Young People
- Domestic Abuse: Children and Young People
- Dealing with Difficult and Challenging Behaviour
- Substance and Alcohol Misuse Training
- Preventing Bullying
- Cyber bullying/ Online safety
- Child Sexual Exploitation (Including FGM and trafficking)
- Equal Opportunities and Diversity
- Developing Employability Skills in Young People (Dare2Achieve programme)
- Fire Safety
- Communication Skills
- Record Keeping Skills
- Report Writing Skills
- Health and Safety and First Aid
- Food Hygiene
- Keyworking Skills
We also provide our staff with structured management supervision sessions to identify their training needs and to ensure that they are working to high standards of delivery.
All staff are DBS Checked.
NIVALO CARE SERVICES LTD IS A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY REGISTERED IN ENGLAND AND WALES WITH RGISTRATION NUMBER 12505664