Meet the Team
Meet our friendly team and put a face to the voice when you give us a call ~ 0844 4993398
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Andrew Thorne: Managing Director
Andrew Thorne, Backstop founder, is a qualified social worker with ten years experience of working with young offenders both in the UK and the USA. He worked in a busy London YOT until the summer of 2001.
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Sharlene Knight: Recruitment Manager
Sharlene has over nine years' experience recruiting into the Social Care market. Alongside working within recruitment, she also supports several charities that offer support to women and children who are survivors of Domestic Violence. Outside of work, Sharlene likes to watch her beloved Chelsea FC, cook up a storm in...
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Kath Parham: Recruitment Consultant
Kath started at Backstop in February 2008. With four years of experience in the London recruitment industry, Kath decided to carry her knowledge and skills over from the education sector to the youth justice specialist field.
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Julie Hou: Senior Recruitment Consultant
Fully REC qualified, Julie has over 10 years’ experience in recruitment; seven of which have been devoted to the social housing sector. Julie has always specialised in the public sector, having recruited for a wide range of local authority and housing association clients.
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Malyssa Webb: Compliance & Systems Co-ordinator
As Candidate Control Officer, Malyssa is your friendly first point of contact, assessing all CVs that we receive and matching you to your consultant. She's also responsible for compliance which means she'll stop at nothing to ensure we exercise best practice in all recruitment processes so that each of our...
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Chris Wren: Finance Manager
With 10 years' experience in the finance sector working with Conran Restaurants, The Wolesley Grand Café, The Work Foundation and most recently Reed in Partnership, Chris now heads up our Finance team here at Backstop. Chris brings with him a wealth of knowledge in managing customer-focused finance teams. When he's...
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Alicja Marasinska: Finance Officer
Alicja is the Backstop finance officer. Should you have any questions about pay or time sheets you will be speaking to her or Linda. Accurate and friendly, she will be happy to talk you through any general finance questions you may have regarding temporary work.
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Linda Witt: Finance Assistant
Our very efficient Finance Assistant. Linda joined the Backstop team as Finance Assistant in August 2007 after having worked in retail banking for over 20 years, performing various roles including processing customer transactions and customer services.
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Naomi Oladimeji: HR & Organisational Development Manager
After completing her Social Welfare Degree, Naomi worked for a busy London YOT. She joined Backstop in 2001 as a Recruitment Consultant and is now our Systems and Personnel Manager with responsibility for Training bookings. Throughout her time at Backstop Naomi has continued to work with young people in the...
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Chiatulah Ameke: Diversity Training Consultant
Chiatulah is rated by many sources as one of the best Diversity and Race Equality trainers in the UK. For most of the 1990s he was a Groupwork Probation Officer at the flagship Camberwell Probation Centre in the former Inner London Probation Service (ILPS), specialising in BME Offender and Cognitive...
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Paul Chapman: Senior Recruitment Consultant
Paul carries with him over 12 years of Recruitment experience. Within this time he has spent over four years working within social care; specifically social housing and substance misuse, so is well-placed to help you with any questions you may have.
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