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Zoe HARDING

Zoe HARDING

Dereham,United Kingdom

Summary

Accomplished professional with expertise in training facilitation, therapeutic practices, and consulting. Demonstrates strong skills in risk assessment and strategic thinking, fostering collaboration to achieve organisational goals. Committed to achieving core competencies to drive impactful results and advance career objectives within dynamic environments.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Associate Safeguarding Trainer

NSPCC
Remote
07.2025 - Current

Providing expert safeguarding training to professionals across multiple agencies

Independent Parole Board Member

The Parole Board
Remote
05.2025 - Current
  • Sitting as a panel member to assess risk and make decisions on recall, release and progression within prison.
  • Contributing to the protection of the public

Support for Success Clinician

Norfolk County Council
Norwich
11.2024 - 07.2025
  • Clinical supervision to practitioners working in children's services
  • Group and individual therapeutic consultation for Social Workers and the Team around the family
  • Designing and delivering therapeutic training to children's social care staff
  • Delivering specialist therapeutic interventions to children and young people

Psychological Therapist

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Remote
09.2021 - 11.2024
  • Managing a highly specialised caseload of clients with psychological disorders to move them towards recovery
  • Using specialist assessment skills to complete in-depth mental health assessments and plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based treatment interventions

Crisis Worker

Norfolk Constabulary
Norwich
05.2011 - 05.2023
  • Supported victims of sexual assault via out-of-hours forensic medical procedure and independently operated 24-hour helpline to respond to safeguarding issues.

Functional Family Therapy Child Welfare Worker

Family Psychology Mutual
Dereham
06.2020 - 09.2021
  • Formulating and implementing bespoke systemic therapy programmes for families referred via Children's Services where there has been a relationship breakdown
  • Assessing and managing risk and protective factors to keep children safe

Domestic Abuse Change Coordinator

Norfolk County Council
Norwich
01.2014 - 06.2020
  • Establishing, developing, and maintaining a network of over 2000 multiagency Domestic Abuse ‘DA’ Champions across Norfolk including training facilitation, website maintenance, and professional advice/consultation
  • Influencing the strategic direction of domestic abuse strategies in Norfolk through the DA Change programme and collaborative working partnerships
  • Monitoring, reviewing, and evaluating the effectiveness of the service

Probation Officer

National Probation Service
Norwich
01.2005 - 01.2014
  • Case Manager for complex high-risk offenders, risk assessment, legislation and referral pathways
  • Developing and reviewing supervision plans with offenders, multi-agency liaison and information sharing, referring high risk offenders to Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangement ‘MAPPA’
  • Attending Oral Hearings to assess risk of harm/re-offending and public protection
  • Condensing multiple complex documents/dossiers to complete robust risk assessments and reports for Parole Hearings

Project Officer

Leeway Women's Aid
Norwich
04.2004 - 01.2005
  • Managing a complex caseload and implementing a new domestic abuse drop-in service for advice and support

Forensic Psychological Assistant

HMP Norwich
Norwich
01.2003 - 04.2004
  • Delivering accredited offending behaviour programmes to groups of offenders

Accountancy Assistant

Breckland Council & Norfolk Training Services Ltd
Dereham
09.1998 - 01.2003
  • Account management and reconciliation
  • Managed supplier invoices, resulting in improved vendor relationships.
  • Delivered financial insights with comprehensive account reconciliation and variance analysis.

Education

Post Graduate Diploma - High Intensity Therapy

University of East Anglia
09.2021 - 01.2023

Postgraduate Certificate - Systemic Practice

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust
09.2019 - 12.2020

BA Hons - Community and Criminal Justice

De Montfort University
01.2003 - 01.2005

Diploma - Probation Studies

De Montfort University
01.2003 - 01.2004

Level 4 - Association of Accountancy Technicians (AAT)

City College Norwich
09.1997 - 06.1999

Skills

Training facilitation

Therapeutic practices

Consulting expertise

Risk assessment

Strategic thinking

Collaboration

Accomplishments

    Employee of the Year Award, 12/01/18

    Municipal Journal (MJ) National Award Winner, 12/01/18

    Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Best Event, 12/01/19

    First newly qualified Probation Officer to be successful at applying for a specialist post within the prison estate based on merits and interview.

Custom

Zoe, HARDING, Dereham, United Kingdom, 07305 894425, popcornfighter@yahoo.co.uk, 07305894425, www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-harding-658300125

Certification

  • Vulnerable Prisoners Training
  • National Autism Trainer Programme
    DASH (Domestic Abuse, Stalking, Harassment, and Honour Based Violence) Risk assessment Train the Trainer
    Coercive Control and Stalking Master Level
    MARAC Representative Training
    Honour Based Abuse (HBA), Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), and Forced Marriage (FM)
    DASH (Domestic Abuse, Stalking, Harassment, and Honour Based Violence) Risk assessment Train the Trainer
    Coercive Control and Stalking Master Level
    MARAC Representative Training
    Honour Based Abuse (HBA), Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), and Forced Marriage (FM)
    Adult Safeguarding Train the Trainer
    Domestic Homicide Review Chair Training
    Extremism and radicalisation training
    Train the Trainer course: Change Resistant Drinkers and Domestic Violence.
    Safer Recruitment Training
    Child Safeguarding Level 3
    Working with children and young people who engage in sexually harmful behaviour
    Restorative Approaches
    Solihull Approach Programme: (Understanding Your Child)
    Leadership and Development -
    Skills and techniques for coaching others, decision making, and personal resilience.
    Accredited Offending Behaviour Programmes - Core Skills Training
    IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapy) Suicide Prevention
    Working with Children & young people who have experienced sexual abuse
    Escape the Trap Teenage Healthy Relationships) Facilitator Training
    Who's in Charge (Adolescent to Parent Violence) Facilitator Training
    Hoarding and Self Neglect
    County Lines Professionals Workshop
    Freedom Programme Facilitator Training
    Foundation Level Non-Violence Resistance (NVR) Training (child on parent violence approach)
    Accredited SARC Crisis Worker training including police DASH Risk Assessment
    Incredible Years Facilitator Training

Timeline

Associate Safeguarding Trainer

NSPCC
07.2025 - Current

Independent Parole Board Member

The Parole Board
05.2025 - Current

Support for Success Clinician

Norfolk County Council
11.2024 - 07.2025

Post Graduate Diploma - High Intensity Therapy

University of East Anglia
09.2021 - 01.2023

Psychological Therapist

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
09.2021 - 11.2024

Functional Family Therapy Child Welfare Worker

Family Psychology Mutual
06.2020 - 09.2021

Postgraduate Certificate - Systemic Practice

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust
09.2019 - 12.2020

Domestic Abuse Change Coordinator

Norfolk County Council
01.2014 - 06.2020

Crisis Worker

Norfolk Constabulary
05.2011 - 05.2023

Probation Officer

National Probation Service
01.2005 - 01.2014

Project Officer

Leeway Women's Aid
04.2004 - 01.2005

BA Hons - Community and Criminal Justice

De Montfort University
01.2003 - 01.2005

Diploma - Probation Studies

De Montfort University
01.2003 - 01.2004

Forensic Psychological Assistant

HMP Norwich
01.2003 - 04.2004

Accountancy Assistant

Breckland Council & Norfolk Training Services Ltd
09.1998 - 01.2003

Level 4 - Association of Accountancy Technicians (AAT)

City College Norwich
09.1997 - 06.1999
Zoe HARDING