Emily McArdle

What's important to me

My family – Joe, Mel and Lucy. To spend time together as a family, every weekend and at least a couple of times a week walking the whippets, maybe a meal out or just having a dance inthe kitchen
My Mum and Dad. I like to speak to them every week and visit them in Brecon every couple of months
My friends – meeting with my reading group every 6 weeks and getting together with my ‘Port Sunlight People’ every other week.
To see my good friend Gill at least once a fortnight for a cuppa and a heart to heart
To make a difference to the children I work with in my other job as an NHS Speech & Language Therapist. To know that their families trust me and that we are working inpartnership to help their children communicate better.
To work as part of a supportive, creative, motivated, enthusiastic team who embrace change and value each other.
To be able to show people on the team that I care about and value them by doing things that I hope will make them happy such as my joke of the week.
To work with people who share the same values, trust each other and have a real commitment to doing the right thing. I find it upsetting if people do things without integrity or are disloyal.
To play my part in the local community – I am a school governor and a volunteer tour guide and trustee in Port Sunlight.
It is really important to me to see the fun in things and to laugh every day.

I love to be creative and innovative, I’m a big picture sort of person so it really helps if someone lets me know if there’s detail I need to pay attention to.
If I have something on my mind that is worrying me I can become quite pre-occupied. It helps to have someone I trust to ask me what’s up and to listen to me, knowing it will go no further unless we agree it.
I like to feel in control and if I’m having a difficult day being clear about what I can influence and having a plan of action to resolve problems really helps. Remind me to be solution focused.
Keep me in the loop. I prefer email or messaging to the phone.
Tell me how you like to communicate so I know the best ways we can work well together.
Be clear what is expected of me I will clarify or summarise plans once we’ve made them.
Know that I worry about letting people down. Let me know quickly if I’m not meeting expectations. The best way to do this to email me so I can process the information before we talk and start to think about solutions.