The Achieve Well Team
The Achieve Well Team sits within the Education Department of Nottingham City Council and is funded by Public Health. We support Nottingham schools to enhance the health and wellbeing of children through an evidenced based whole school approach in line with statutory requirements.
What we offer
Meet the Team
Achieve Well Team Manager
Catherine Kirk has worked for Nottingham City Council for over 10 years as RSE Consultant and, more recently, leading the Achieve Well Team. Catherine's career to date has focused on developing PSHE provision for children and young people. She has worked for two local authorities leading the development of RSE and PSHE. Catherine is a skilled trainer, author, teacher, and Mental Health First Aid instructor. In her spare time, Catherine loves keeping active with belly-dancing and Zumba.
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Achieve Well Officer - PSHE
Zain Iqbal has worked in education for over 10 years. Starting his career as a primary teacher in Nottingham, he quickly gained further responsibilities such as managing staff, overseeing and mentoring student teachers, curriculum responsibilities and phase leadership. Seeking new challenges and opportunities, Zain relocated to Manchester and worked as Health Improvement Officer for Mental Health. In this role he took responsibility for ensuring all schools in Manchester City’s local authority were given access to the Healthy Schools program and the offer that was provided. This included building and delivering training relevant to schools and young people, creating resources, consulting staff upon school wide changes and much more. Zain now brings his expertise and experience back to Nottingham to deliver high quality training and support for all schools in the area of PSHE. Zain is a skilled public speaker, trainer, presenter, teacher and facilitator of all things relating to young people's personal development . Outside of professional pursuits, Zain is an avid audiophile and cinephile, keeping up to date with music and cinema. He regularly plays badminton and enjoys the outdoors, camping and taking time to be in nature as often as he can.
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Achieve Well Officer - Eating and Moving
Fred Morris has over 10 years of experience in education, specializing in secondary and Post-16 education physical education. As a Further Education Sport Lecturer, he has delivered a range of sport-related courses from Level 2 to Level 6. In his previous role as a Regional Personal Development Coach, Fred shaped tutorial and PSHE programs across the East Midlands, Northeast, and Northwest in post 16 educational settings with a focus on promoting health and well-being. Outside of work, Fred enjoys staying active through sports and outdoor activities.
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Achieve Well Administrator
Charlotte Mitchell-Brown has worked in customer service and admin for the past three years, two of those being an education based setting. She found her passion for working with young people during her time working as a summer school assistant, while at home from university. Charlotte has skills in administration, customer service, social media management and design. In her free time she enjoys making art, watching live music and cycling.
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The Achieve Well Team contributes to public health priorities across a range of themes including eating and moving for good health, drugs and alcohol awareness, tobacco and vaping awareness, sexual health and emotional health and wellbeing. We work towards targets identified within the Eating and Moving for Good Health Strategy.
We are committed to an approach that puts children at the heart of decision-making in line with our ambition to become a Child Friendly City.