Gary Candlish

Gary has worked in the care industry since 1990. He is a registered nurse and trained at Prudhoe Hospital. Once he was qualified, he went on to work at the semi-secure unit at Earls house hospital, where he met his wife, Linda. Whilst in his nursing role Gary also undertook other responsibilities which included Quality Assurance Co-Ordinator for the hospital and Continence Link Nurse. He is passionate about improving vulnerable peoples quality of life and wanted to raise standards of care by transitioning service users out of hospital back into the community, something which he has done many times. Gary is passionate about life coaching, teaching and he is a professional speaker. He also has a lot of expertise in positive behaviour support and is a level 7 practitioner.