Shameem Nawaz, Development Lead Equal Lives
Shameem is passionate about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and ensuring the voices of people with lived experience is central to service design and delivery.
Shameem has worked across the health and social care sector for most of her career supporting people to have equal access to services by working with organisations to better understand the needs of service users and adapting services to be more inclusive.
This has included working with people from minority ethnic communities, people from different faith backgrounds, with learning disabilities, people with dementia, older people, people from LGBTQ+ communities, people with mental health problems, people who substance misuse and most recently women and children who have been subject to violence and abuse.
Shameem also has significant experience in Strategy and Business Development, having established a successful fundraising function, a communications function, generated significant income for new and innovative services as well as led aftercare and recovery services in the Women's Sector.
Contact Details
Email: shameem.nawaz@ndti.org.uk