Sam Avery celebrates one year anniversary at Thera South West

Posted 15/01/2025

Sam Avery, Service Quality Director for Thera South West, celebrated her one year anniversary of employment on January 8. To commemorate this milestone she put together some words regarding her time.

Celebrating my one year anniversary has made me reflect on the past year. My first year as a Service Quality Director has been incredible. I have enjoyed working alongside Estelle Christmas, Managing Director, who has guided me on how to become an ambassador for Thera South West. I have had a busy year visiting the people we support in their homes across Devon, Dorset, and Wiltshire. This has given me a great opportunity to get to know the people we support. I have enjoyed working alongside our Operational Managers. I have also enjoyed working with my new Executive Assistant Corrina Turner and building our Being Heard strategy for 2025.

In 2024 we had a focus on community outreach and promotion. I promoted Thera South West at local events and networked with other organisation’s whilst raising the profile for Thera South West. I attended the Blue Light Day at the Royal Cornwall Showground in Wadebridge which was great fun, and it was good to meet other organisation’s who understood our organisation’s values. We also had a Thera South West Fun Day in Yeovil which turned out to be a great success! We had 86 people attend the day. I dressed up as a sunflower and I really enjoyed getting to know the people that I hadn’t met before.

I also appeared on CHBN radio station where I got to share some of my story and raise the profile for Thera South West even more, in addition to this Cornwall Live wrote an article on Thera South West and myself. I am really looking forward to this year and implementing some of the plans we have to grow Thera South West and ensure people are receiving the very best support.

Sam Avery attending her radio interview

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