19/08/2025
Durham County Carers Support Michelle is warm, supportive and kind. If you live in County Durham we would always recommend you get in touch with the team to see how they could support you! 💙✨
MEET THE TEAM MONDAY - MICHELLE
I have been working at Durham County Carers Support as Parent support Coordinator for over 3 years now, after volunteering to fill in the DLA forms with parents. I started off completing the parent Carer needs assessment and now I provide more specialist support for parent Carers. This is bespoke support to what you as the parent need. I think this is the part of my job that I love as everyone is different, and every day is totally different for me.
I started off my career in a specialist provision 1:1 support worker for children with additional needs, this was over 20 years ago, and things were different then. I took a break to have my own family who are now teenagers who will hate me even referring to them. Even though they are my world and I do anything for them, 😊 never too old for a cuddle of their mam.
I have always accessed various training in my own journey as a Parent Carer, understanding Autism, EHCP training, SEN Provision in school, Quality first Teaching, at one point I followed the SENDIASS workers around at every event possible to get my own knowledge for attending meetings and appointments.
I have multiple caring roles within my personal life for family members which is why I applied for this job in the first place. I love being part of such a beneficial organisation and I am grateful for the Masonic Foundation for providing funding for the Parent Carer support. Without this it wouldn’t be possible to support so many Parent Carers.
