TheHoIT (Sean B)
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Head of IT & Compliance @platfform.org
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All views expressed my own & do not represent the views of my employer.
Google Android enthusiast and occasional photographer. I ❤️ the works of Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams and Piers Anthony.
All views expressed my own & do not represent the views of my employer.
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TheHoIT (Sean B)
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🔍 We're hiring an ICT Coordinator!
Help manage Platfform's IT estate and support its staff across Wales
💻 Swansea based with travel to other offices
📅 Closes 13/06/2025
💼 Salary £28000
📢 Know someone perfect for this? Tag them!
#CharityJobs #ITJobs #DigitalTransformation #SwanseaJobs #HiringNow
Help manage Platfform's IT estate and support its staff across Wales
💻 Swansea based with travel to other offices
📅 Closes 13/06/2025
💼 Salary £28000
📢 Know someone perfect for this? Tag them!
#CharityJobs #ITJobs #DigitalTransformation #SwanseaJobs #HiringNow
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Platfform's Employment Team works hard all year round to support people back into work. Last year, the team supported 689 people in Gwent - either to find employment or volunteering opps, or by offering mental health & wellbeing support.
👉 Find out more: email gwentoows@platfform.org
#EmpDay2025
👉 Find out more: email gwentoows@platfform.org
#EmpDay2025
June 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Platfform's Employment Team works hard all year round to support people back into work. Last year, the team supported 689 people in Gwent - either to find employment or volunteering opps, or by offering mental health & wellbeing support.
👉 Find out more: email gwentoows@platfform.org
#EmpDay2025
👉 Find out more: email gwentoows@platfform.org
#EmpDay2025
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Join the Platfform team as our Head of Policy and Campaigns - deadline this Friday! Apply here: tinyurl.com/platfform-po...
There's great momentum in Wales towards a better future for mental health. Could you lead our policy and campaigns work as we play our part in making sure that future happens?
There's great momentum in Wales towards a better future for mental health. Could you lead our policy and campaigns work as we play our part in making sure that future happens?
If you could be our new Head of Policy and Campaigns, you’ve got 10 days left to let us know!
Join the movement for mental health – and use your knowledge of Welsh politics and your passion for social change to build a brighter future.
Apply by 20th June: buff.ly/lJGcKjL
Join the movement for mental health – and use your knowledge of Welsh politics and your passion for social change to build a brighter future.
Apply by 20th June: buff.ly/lJGcKjL
June 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Join the Platfform team as our Head of Policy and Campaigns - deadline this Friday! Apply here: tinyurl.com/platfform-po...
There's great momentum in Wales towards a better future for mental health. Could you lead our policy and campaigns work as we play our part in making sure that future happens?
There's great momentum in Wales towards a better future for mental health. Could you lead our policy and campaigns work as we play our part in making sure that future happens?
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If you could be our new Head of Policy and Campaigns, you’ve got 10 days left to let us know!
Join the movement for mental health – and use your knowledge of Welsh politics and your passion for social change to build a brighter future.
Apply by 20th June: buff.ly/lJGcKjL
Join the movement for mental health – and use your knowledge of Welsh politics and your passion for social change to build a brighter future.
Apply by 20th June: buff.ly/lJGcKjL
June 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
If you could be our new Head of Policy and Campaigns, you’ve got 10 days left to let us know!
Join the movement for mental health – and use your knowledge of Welsh politics and your passion for social change to build a brighter future.
Apply by 20th June: buff.ly/lJGcKjL
Join the movement for mental health – and use your knowledge of Welsh politics and your passion for social change to build a brighter future.
Apply by 20th June: buff.ly/lJGcKjL
🔍 We're hiring an ICT Coordinator!
Help manage Platfform's IT estate and support its staff across Wales
💻 Swansea based with travel to other offices
📅 Closes 13/06/2025
💼 Salary £28000
📢 Know someone perfect for this? Tag them!
#CharityJobs #ITJobs #DigitalTransformation #SwanseaJobs #HiringNow
Help manage Platfform's IT estate and support its staff across Wales
💻 Swansea based with travel to other offices
📅 Closes 13/06/2025
💼 Salary £28000
📢 Know someone perfect for this? Tag them!
#CharityJobs #ITJobs #DigitalTransformation #SwanseaJobs #HiringNow
June 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
🔍 We're hiring an ICT Coordinator!
Help manage Platfform's IT estate and support its staff across Wales
💻 Swansea based with travel to other offices
📅 Closes 13/06/2025
💼 Salary £28000
📢 Know someone perfect for this? Tag them!
#CharityJobs #ITJobs #DigitalTransformation #SwanseaJobs #HiringNow
Help manage Platfform's IT estate and support its staff across Wales
💻 Swansea based with travel to other offices
📅 Closes 13/06/2025
💼 Salary £28000
📢 Know someone perfect for this? Tag them!
#CharityJobs #ITJobs #DigitalTransformation #SwanseaJobs #HiringNow
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Could you or someone you know be @platfform.org new Head of Policy & Campaigns - interesting, exciting & worrying times -upcoming Welsh election, new MH Strategy, local elections. Much to do to ensure mental health of population of Wales improves & that issues of social justice are solved 👇👇👇👇
We’re looking for a Head of Policy & Campaigns at Platfform - if you connect with our purpose, have a passion for social justice & can show us how you have affected successful change through policy and campaigns work then we’d love to hear from you
#PublicAffairs #Politics #Campaigns #SocialJustice
#PublicAffairs #Politics #Campaigns #SocialJustice
Head of Policy and Campaigns - Flexible with regular requirement to travel as required
If like us, you are passionate about addressing injustice and making a difference to the lives of the people in Wales then you could be our next Head of Policy and Campaigns.
This is an exciting time...
platfform.current-vacancies.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Could you or someone you know be @platfform.org new Head of Policy & Campaigns - interesting, exciting & worrying times -upcoming Welsh election, new MH Strategy, local elections. Much to do to ensure mental health of population of Wales improves & that issues of social justice are solved 👇👇👇👇
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In two weeks! We're holding a free online learning webinar. Join us for a look into the history of mental health, whether current approaches are effective - and what's getting in the way of working in a strengths-based way.
Book your place here: buff.ly/2cvzNGD
Book your place here: buff.ly/2cvzNGD
May 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
In two weeks! We're holding a free online learning webinar. Join us for a look into the history of mental health, whether current approaches are effective - and what's getting in the way of working in a strengths-based way.
Book your place here: buff.ly/2cvzNGD
Book your place here: buff.ly/2cvzNGD
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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
kfoundation.org/it-is-no-mea...
kfoundation.org/it-is-no-mea...
May 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
kfoundation.org/it-is-no-mea...
kfoundation.org/it-is-no-mea...
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We're hiring an ICT Co-ordinator!
Looking for your next role in IT? Platfform is looking for a special person with the right skills to keep the organisation connected! If you've worked in a similar ICT role get in touch. Apply online at platfform.org or contact SeanBolton@platfform.org for details.
Looking for your next role in IT? Platfform is looking for a special person with the right skills to keep the organisation connected! If you've worked in a similar ICT role get in touch. Apply online at platfform.org or contact SeanBolton@platfform.org for details.
April 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
We're hiring an ICT Co-ordinator!
Looking for your next role in IT? Platfform is looking for a special person with the right skills to keep the organisation connected! If you've worked in a similar ICT role get in touch. Apply online at platfform.org or contact SeanBolton@platfform.org for details.
Looking for your next role in IT? Platfform is looking for a special person with the right skills to keep the organisation connected! If you've worked in a similar ICT role get in touch. Apply online at platfform.org or contact SeanBolton@platfform.org for details.
Join @platfform.org as our ICT Coordinator! Lead digital upgrades, support teams, and keep systems secure. Be the tech hero we need!
Location: Swansea
Deadline: 2 May 2025
Apply: platfform.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
Location: Swansea
Deadline: 2 May 2025
Apply: platfform.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
ICT Coordinator - Swansea - with regular travel to other office locations as required
We’re looking looking for a new ICT Coordinator to join an ambitious, dynamic and purpose-driven organisation. You will be joining us at a really exciting time as we look to deepen our work in Wales a...
platfform.current-vacancies.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Our 'new-look' website for young people is live 🥳
It's home to information about support available through our projects as well as blogs and resources written and created by young people for young people.
Check it out and share with others platfform4yp.org
It's home to information about support available through our projects as well as blogs and resources written and created by young people for young people.
Check it out and share with others platfform4yp.org
April 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Our 'new-look' website for young people is live 🥳
It's home to information about support available through our projects as well as blogs and resources written and created by young people for young people.
Check it out and share with others platfform4yp.org
It's home to information about support available through our projects as well as blogs and resources written and created by young people for young people.
Check it out and share with others platfform4yp.org
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Join @platfform.org as our ICT Coordinator! Lead digital upgrades, support teams, and keep systems secure. Be the tech hero we need!
Location: Swansea
Deadline: 2 May 2025
Apply: platfform.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
Location: Swansea
Deadline: 2 May 2025
Apply: platfform.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
ICT Coordinator - Swansea - with regular travel to other office locations as required
We’re looking looking for a new ICT Coordinator to join an ambitious, dynamic and purpose-driven organisation. You will be joining us at a really exciting time as we look to deepen our work in Wales a...
platfform.current-vacancies.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Join @platfform.org as our ICT Coordinator! Lead digital upgrades, support teams, and keep systems secure. Be the tech hero we need!
Location: Swansea
Deadline: 2 May 2025
Apply: platfform.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
Location: Swansea
Deadline: 2 May 2025
Apply: platfform.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
Join @platfform.org as our ICT Coordinator! Lead digital upgrades, support teams, and keep systems secure. Be the tech hero we need!
Location: Swansea
Deadline: 2 May 2025
Apply: platfform.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
Location: Swansea
Deadline: 2 May 2025
Apply: platfform.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
ICT Coordinator - Swansea - with regular travel to other office locations as required
We’re looking looking for a new ICT Coordinator to join an ambitious, dynamic and purpose-driven organisation. You will be joining us at a really exciting time as we look to deepen our work in Wales a...
platfform.current-vacancies.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Join @platfform.org as our ICT Coordinator! Lead digital upgrades, support teams, and keep systems secure. Be the tech hero we need!
Location: Swansea
Deadline: 2 May 2025
Apply: platfform.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
Location: Swansea
Deadline: 2 May 2025
Apply: platfform.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
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Psychological safety is NOT about lack of disagreement.
Psychological safety REQUIRES:
* disagreement and debate
* setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them
* telling people things they don't want to hear
* courage, from the bottom up
* humility, from the top down
Psychological safety REQUIRES:
* disagreement and debate
* setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them
* telling people things they don't want to hear
* courage, from the bottom up
* humility, from the top down
Controversial take: teams that never argue are often the most dysfunctional ones.
Here's why your team should be fighting more.
terriblesoftware.org/2025/03/12/w...
Here's why your team should be fighting more.
terriblesoftware.org/2025/03/12/w...
Why Your ‘Harmonious’ Team Is Actually Failing
Teams often confuse psychological safety with everyone getting along perfectly. I see leaders bragging about teams where nobody ever raises their voice, where meetings wrap up with everyone nodding…
terriblesoftware.org
March 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Psychological safety is NOT about lack of disagreement.
Psychological safety REQUIRES:
* disagreement and debate
* setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them
* telling people things they don't want to hear
* courage, from the bottom up
* humility, from the top down
Psychological safety REQUIRES:
* disagreement and debate
* setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them
* telling people things they don't want to hear
* courage, from the bottom up
* humility, from the top down
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“Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’ believing the innocent had everything to fear mostly from the guilty but..even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’..”
Terry Pratchett; Snuff
#Discworld #ComingForStudents #TrumpsAmerica 🇺🇸
March 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’ believing the innocent had everything to fear mostly from the guilty but..even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’..”
Terry Pratchett; Snuff
#Discworld #ComingForStudents #TrumpsAmerica 🇺🇸
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Thinking of the situation in Gaza, I am having a Pratchett moment
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
Terry Pratchett
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
Terry Pratchett
March 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Thinking of the situation in Gaza, I am having a Pratchett moment
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
Terry Pratchett
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
Terry Pratchett
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Huge thank you to the pupils of Tonyrefail Communtiy school for your support
www.herald.wales/south-wales/...
www.herald.wales/south-wales/...
Tonyrefail school wins £1k top prize for Platfform - Herald.Wales
TONYREFAIL Community School in Rhondda Cynon Taf has chosen Platfform to receive a £1,000 grant, won at a competition organised by London-based charity
www.herald.wales
March 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Huge thank you to the pupils of Tonyrefail Communtiy school for your support
www.herald.wales/south-wales/...
www.herald.wales/south-wales/...
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I will say this and continue to say this until the day I leave this mortal coil.
Read Discworld.
All of it.
Terry Pratchett Brainrot will save you.
Read Discworld.
All of it.
Terry Pratchett Brainrot will save you.
March 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I will say this and continue to say this until the day I leave this mortal coil.
Read Discworld.
All of it.
Terry Pratchett Brainrot will save you.
Read Discworld.
All of it.
Terry Pratchett Brainrot will save you.
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We are delighted to contribute to Ferdinando & Luigi Innocenti Foundation's ambitious vision through our report Sparking Joy: Creating thriving environments for young people to thrive, written by Dr Jen Daffin fli.foundation/news/sparkin...
Sparking Joy - Creating environments for young people to thrive | F&LI Foundation
A review of the evidence-base and need to create the
conditions for young people to spark joy and thrive.
fli.foundation
March 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
We are delighted to contribute to Ferdinando & Luigi Innocenti Foundation's ambitious vision through our report Sparking Joy: Creating thriving environments for young people to thrive, written by Dr Jen Daffin fli.foundation/news/sparkin...
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It is very hard to accept, but it is no longer safe to move EU governments & societies to US clouds. Not only is it dangerous to do so, it is also likely flat out illegal in the near feature. We're trading convenience for utter dependence on a mad king. It should stop.
berthub.eu/articles/pos...
berthub.eu/articles/pos...
It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - Bert Hubert
The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King o...
berthub.eu
February 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
It is very hard to accept, but it is no longer safe to move EU governments & societies to US clouds. Not only is it dangerous to do so, it is also likely flat out illegal in the near feature. We're trading convenience for utter dependence on a mad king. It should stop.
berthub.eu/articles/pos...
berthub.eu/articles/pos...
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Have you worked in a third sector organisation supporting people to access mental health crisis services? Or helped someone you care for to access services?
We're running an online session on 5th March to hear your views for a new report to NHS Wales. Your experiences could shape future support.
We're running an online session on 5th March to hear your views for a new report to NHS Wales. Your experiences could shape future support.
Shape your services: acute and crisis mental health care - Platfform
Have you experienced acute or crisis mental health care services in Wales in the last five years?
platfform.org
February 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Have you worked in a third sector organisation supporting people to access mental health crisis services? Or helped someone you care for to access services?
We're running an online session on 5th March to hear your views for a new report to NHS Wales. Your experiences could shape future support.
We're running an online session on 5th March to hear your views for a new report to NHS Wales. Your experiences could shape future support.
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Depressingly appropriate Terry Pratchett quote.
February 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Depressingly appropriate Terry Pratchett quote.
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It’s essential that we keep building the movement for social change and the future of mental health. As part of Wales Week London, we’re bringing together social change makers, industry leaders and supporters across sectors.
👉 Register your interest: https://bit.ly/4k7FFX1
👉 Register your interest: https://bit.ly/4k7FFX1
February 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
It’s essential that we keep building the movement for social change and the future of mental health. As part of Wales Week London, we’re bringing together social change makers, industry leaders and supporters across sectors.
👉 Register your interest: https://bit.ly/4k7FFX1
👉 Register your interest: https://bit.ly/4k7FFX1
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Our Wales Week London event is back 🙌.
Join social change leaders across the 3rd, public & private sector to hear about Platfform’s journey and hopes for the future ❤️.
Meet others, spark ideas & celebrate our collective impact to end injustice.
📝Sign up platfform.org/get-involved...
Join social change leaders across the 3rd, public & private sector to hear about Platfform’s journey and hopes for the future ❤️.
Meet others, spark ideas & celebrate our collective impact to end injustice.
📝Sign up platfform.org/get-involved...
Leaders and Changemakers: building a better future together (Wales Week in London)
We understand the power of collaboration in driving our mission for positive change. Join us for an evening, as recognise and build our collective efforts towards a more compassionate approach to ment...
platfform.org
January 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Our Wales Week London event is back 🙌.
Join social change leaders across the 3rd, public & private sector to hear about Platfform’s journey and hopes for the future ❤️.
Meet others, spark ideas & celebrate our collective impact to end injustice.
📝Sign up platfform.org/get-involved...
Join social change leaders across the 3rd, public & private sector to hear about Platfform’s journey and hopes for the future ❤️.
Meet others, spark ideas & celebrate our collective impact to end injustice.
📝Sign up platfform.org/get-involved...
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It was great to welcome Jane Dodds MS to The Hangout project in Cardiff today – delivered alongside Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.
Thanks, Jane, for taking the time to pop by and see this community-based approach to mental health! (1/2)
Thanks, Jane, for taking the time to pop by and see this community-based approach to mental health! (1/2)
January 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
It was great to welcome Jane Dodds MS to The Hangout project in Cardiff today – delivered alongside Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.
Thanks, Jane, for taking the time to pop by and see this community-based approach to mental health! (1/2)
Thanks, Jane, for taking the time to pop by and see this community-based approach to mental health! (1/2)
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Platfform has been gathering people's stories of receiving, or working with, the diagnosis of personality disorder. These stories will help inform what we call for as a charity, and offer a public perspective on the diagnosis.
Visit platfform.org/truthproject for more info.
Visit platfform.org/truthproject for more info.
The Truth Project - Platfform
Platfform’s Truth Project is our approach to hearing and bearing witness to people’s experiences. We will be looking at different aspects of the mental health system, and more widely, to understand wh...
platfform.org
January 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Platfform has been gathering people's stories of receiving, or working with, the diagnosis of personality disorder. These stories will help inform what we call for as a charity, and offer a public perspective on the diagnosis.
Visit platfform.org/truthproject for more info.
Visit platfform.org/truthproject for more info.