 My name is Jess and so I'll just tell you a little bit about my journey I won't go on for too long but my background was in care work. I worked in care before I went to university. I went to University of Portsmouth and I qualified in 2014. Whilst I was at uni I did a couple of placements obviously they were both in non-stratutory services. One was with children with land disabilities and the other was in a children's care home, presidential care home. So I joined West Sussex County Council in 2016 so two years after I qualified. Initially I worked in housing and then I made a decision that I did want to go into a statutory role so I went into West Sussex. Luckily I was appointed to a post. I started in a hospital team which I really enjoyed. I did my nearly qualified year in the hospital team. I had a really supportive ASYE assessor. I then moved over to a community team to get a bit more experience in a different area. I stayed in that team for around a year and I left that post to become a locum social worker. The reason at the time that I did that is I felt I wanted to get more experience in different fields and as Loretta mentioned earlier West Sussex have a great opportunity now to transfer between teams. Back when I decided to be a locum it wasn't as easy to do that but that's something I think as an organisation we've developed a lot over the last couple of years. So I went off to be a locum and I got various experience in learning disability, safeguarding and other community teams but made a decision around a year and a half ago to come back to West Sussex as a permanent member of staff and since that time I've progressed up to a senior social worker practitioner level. Part of my progression has been after the ASYE has been doing the continuing professional development portfolio which is like a progression route through the organisation and really I've just had so many opportunities to do different training. I've recently, well not so much recently now but I did my practice educator training and took on a student. Rachel's progressed on to doing her NQSW with West Sussex as well. A little bit about my role at the moment so I deputised for the team manager, I supervised a small amount of staff, support with interviews, work on complex cases and obviously support Rachel with her ASYE. I still have access to lots of training, I've got a very supportive manager, supportive leadership team so overall enjoy working for the organisation as a whole, have opportunities to attend different focus groups, get involved in things such as this, recruitment events. I like working for the organisation, it's very flexible, it's very supportive. I'm also a carer, I care for my mum so it's good, I've got opportunities to access different services through West Sussex as an employee and yeah so that's a little bit about my journey I'm sure.