YOU Senior Management Team
Nicola Youern
Group Chief Executive
Nicola Youern, Group Chief Executive
Nicola has over 25 years’ experience at the helm of the YOU Group. After graduating in Politics from Reading University, Nicola worked for the NHS and then Mencap before joining YOU in 1996. Nicola is a graduate of the National School of Government’s Top Management Programme and is a Trustee of the Portsmouth based charities the Portsmouth HIVE and the Council for Social Responsibility.
Jane Cracknell
Group Director of People and Learning
Jane Cracknell, Group Director of People and Learning
Jane has over 20 years’ experience of working at YOU and in the HR profession and is incredibly proud to be in the position she is today. A trained mediator, Jane’s passion is creating a culture and working environment where everyone can thrive. Jane actively champions removing the stigma around talking about mental health and promoting the message that everyone should be able to talk about their mental health as openly as they do about their physical health.
Paul Taylor-Toms
Group Director of Finance
Paul Taylor-Toms, Group Director of Finance
Paul is a creative, driven and forward thinking qualified chartered accountant with over 15 years experience in finance operations. He takes great enjoyment in providing well presented information and being involved in the ‘reasons why’ behind financial numbers, working out why some things tick and others don’t.
Tonia Redvers
Quality and Operations Director
Tonia Redvers, Quality and Operations Director
For over 20 years she has been involved with children, families and individuals who are experiencing domestic abuse or living in the shadow of addiction.
Tonia is passionate about using her skills, knowledge and experience to guide and influence the development of services and the people working at YOU to ensure we offer the best to everyone we work with in our communities.
Alison Cordwell
Quality and Operations Director
Alison Cordwell, Quality and Operations Director
All her working life she had worked with people and is passionate about service quality; what that really means to someone and how we can make people’s experiences of our services the very best of times. This is and always will be the focus of her departments’ work.
Alison is a qualified coach with 30 years of experience of leadership in social care services. She’s committed to walking alongside people as partners in their journey in their life, building on their strengths and skill to achieve their goals.
