Who We Are

I am General Manager at TSF, with over 20 years’ experience across business and project management, marketing communications and customer service. I look after the day-to-day running of the business and enjoy working with our clients and colleagues to ensure a positive experience for all. I am a cat-lover and avid coffee drinker who enjoys being in the countryside and visiting a good farm shop – which are abundant in beautiful Gloucestershire.

I am the Clinical Lead at TSF, supporting our first-class team of Mental Capacity Assessors. I am passionate about enabling clients to make decisions for themselves wherever possible and, where clients are not able to make decisions for themselves, ensuring that they have been well supported in conversations that clearly evidence how they lack capacity to make those decisions. My background is in Social Work: I completed a Master’s degree and a Post Graduate Diploma in Social Work in 2000. Since then, I have worked in the NHS and in Local Authority teams as a Social Worker and Senior Practitioner and then as an Independent Social Worker, before joining TSF in 2019. Over the course of my Social Work career, I have worked with adults with physical and mental health difficulties, learning disabilities, brain injury and with older adults with dementia. I practised as an Approved Social Worker and Approved Mental Health Professional and qualified as a Best Interests Assessor, which then sparked my interest in the field of Mental Capacity. When not thinking about Mental Capacity, I can be found at the piano, or walking in the beautiful Cotswolds, which I am fortunate to call home.

I joined TSF in February 2021 as a Client Liaison Officer. My previous experience in the financial services and in a customer service role for residential care brings a wealth of knowledge to our company. I am part of a team at TSF that assists our clients with their initial enquiry through to completion of the final report. My passions are spending time with my family, walking in the Cotswold Valleys and travelling to foreign countries.

Hi, I’m Barry Fitzgerald. I’ve been a Registered Mental Nurse for 30 years and although retired from the NHS on a full-time basis, I still work occasional shifts on the local Out-of-Hours Team. I am an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) and have been approved since 2010. I’ve been working in the TSF team since 2016. I have conducted assessments with people who have experienced a range of conditions, such as dementia, acquired brain injury and learning development. Things that keep me busy are my daughter, trying to learn German, my motorhome and just pottering about.

My name is Beth Fields, I am a mental capacity assessor working for TSF. I am a registered learning disability nurse with a passion for advocating for people with cognitive impairment. In my nursing career I have had the privilege of supporting people with learning disabilities, autism, mental health conditions and more recently, dementia and those at the end of their life. I enjoy spending my free time with my family, walking my dogs and trying not to fall off my paddleboard!

I am a Registered Learning Disability Nurse. I have over ten years of experience working with individuals with impaired cognitive states and reduced mental capacity. I have specialist skills in working effectively with people struggling with communication difficulties and in supporting them to make their own decisions. I am committed to empowering people so that they are able to live their own life as fully as possible.

I have been working as a Mental Capacity Assessor for TSF Assessments since 2019. This role has allowed me to further develop my skills, so that I am now proficient at assessing mental capacity for a broad range of financial and legal decisions.

Since 2020, I have also been working as a senior lecturer in Learning Disabilities Nursing on a university undergraduate nursing degree course. I teach on a range of subjects, including using the Mental Capacity Act in practice.

My name is Mary Hawes, I am a mental capacity assessor and part of the team at TSF. I began my career by training as a primary school teacher and then worked in a children’s home for seven years. I returned home to Buckinghamshire where I was employed as the deputy manager in a residential care home for adults with learning difficulties which inspired me to retrain a social worker. I then managed small residential homes for a national charity for people with learning disabilites. I progressed to work in the quality management of residential and supported living services before working for a local authority as a senior social worker.

I joined TSF in 2018 and since then I have met a wide range of people and have completed numerous assessments covering a range of decisions including, litigation, property and finance, health and welfare, capacity to gift as well as capacity to decide where to reside. I have also attended court and completed reports for the Court of Protection.