Our staff

Oracle’s greatest asset, we take great care of our staff because they look after our young people 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Oracle believes that the key to consistent care is a stable, well-informed and happy staff team. Oracle has a duty to educate through the enhancement of knowledge and skills and the Oracle team have a shared commitment to on-going, lifelong learning and development. Oracle Care Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and we actively promote anti-discriminatory practice within the Oracle Community.

Each staff member has been hand-picked to make up a staff team comprising of experienced, qualified and skilled individuals, selected for their respected expertise and capacity to work in this demanding field. The multi-disciplinary team have backgrounds in social work, teaching, health care and psychology. They have access to ongoing staff supervision and professional development to equip and enable them to work with our young people to meet their needs, optimise their opportunities and help each of them achieve their true potential.

Senior Management Team:

Board of Directors: Key personnel and executive directors Ravi Maheswaran (CEO/Finance Director and founding member of Oracle Care), Nicky Moss-Jones (Clinical), Steve Bromley (Education) and Tom Mayer (Operations) are all involved because of their interest in 'making a difference' for both the children and young people that Oracle care for, and also because of Oracle's commitment to work towards safer communities, both now and into the future. Each profile below details specific direct roles of the Executive Directors and other key individuals at Oracle Care.

Nicky Mosson-Jones, Clinical Director: Nicky Mosson-Jones is a chartered forensic psychologist with extensive experience of managing and delivering clinical services with young people in secure and community settings. She holds a degree in Combined Studies (Psychology/Sociology) and a post-graduate degree in Applied Criminological Psychology. Her primary model of intervention is cognitive behavioural therapy. Nicky has a specialist interest in risk assessment, and in working with sexually harmful behaviour and other interpersonal aggression.

Nicky holds overall responsibility for Oracle’s tripartite service with fully integrated Therapeutic Care & Education, the components of which we believe are intrinsically and inextricably linked.

Tom Mayer, Operations Director: As the director of operations at Oracle Care, Tom has overall responsibility for care. He is also Oracle's Responsible Individual. Prior to coming to Oracle Tom worked as a successful marketing and business strategy consultant for a global consultancy firm where he led numerous engagements with a range of private and public sector clients. Tom has worked in the U.S., Britain, Germany and very briefly in China. His background includes work as a carer and residential manager in homes for developmentally disabled adults over a four year period from 1990-1994. He holds BA and MA degrees and an MBA from Ashridge.

Steve Bromley, Director of Education: Steve is a qualified and experienced teacher who joined Oracle since its start-up after seven years teaching in a Local Authority mainstream school responsible for the team of teachers and delivery of the National Curriculum in line with the Individual Education Plan's for each young person at Oracle. Steve holds overall responsibility for Oracle Schools in regions 1 & 2 which both have their own Head of Centres, who report directly to Steve. Steve works closely with the rest of the team to ensure continuity and stability through strong links between education, residential care and therapy.

Rowland Coombes, Lead Therapist, Region 2: Rowland is a qualified social worker (MA, DipSW) with over 18 years experience working with clients with complex needs in community and secure settings. Previously he was with Lucy Faithfull Foundation (a child protection charity) for nine years and before that he worked in the Probation Service. For the past seven years he specialised in working in a juvenile secure unit with young people who have sexual and aggressive behaviour problems, involving direct therapeutic work and multi-disciplinary approaches to reduce risk of harm. He has extensive experience in the UK and abroad of delivering training, supervision and consultancy in the specialist field of aggressive and sexually problematic behaviour. Recently trained in restorative justice approaches, he is particularly keen to facilitate repair of harm and reconciliation where this can be assessed as safe and suitable.

Yvonne Mason, Financial Controller: Yvonne is an expert multi-tasker and works closely with our CEO/Finance Director, Ravi, controlling the finances, sales and purchase ledgers and managing the payroll. Yvonne is the organisation behind Oracle’s Congleton Office and works closely with everyone. Yvonne is a founding member of Oracle Care.

Steve Gray, Business Development Consultant and founding member: Steve has extensive experience in working with children and families. Trained as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist, with postgraduate qualifications in forensic behavioural science and management science/organisational psychology, he is also a qualified social worker.

Steve has a particular interest in helping young people with complex and challenging needs, having worked in community and secure settings. He was instrumental in establishing a national resource for young people who display sexually harmful behaviour or have psychosexual problems due to developmental or victim/abuse experiences.

Steve’s vision provided the keystone to the foundation of Oracle Care.