Meet The Team - One Small Step Devon

Debbie Wills

Health Trainer and Stop smoking practitioner

Debbie Wills

Health Trainer and Stop smoking practitioner

My role is to provide practical support and information to clients relating to lifestyle choices and wellbeing so that long-term they can sustain a happier, healthier life. How do I do this? Firstly by identifying a client's current lifestyle choices then creating an agreed action plan to help them make small changes that will improve their health and wellbeing.

Geoff Williams

Health Trainer and Stop Smoking Practitioner

Geoff Williams

Health Trainer and Stop Smoking Practitioner

My role is to help and support people who would like help with quitting smoking, reducing their drinking, eating healthily, and moving more. I enjoy helping people make small changes to improve their mental and physical health.

Jenna Brookman

Community Enagagement Programme Manager and Health Trainer

Jenna Brookman

Community Enagagement Programme Manager and Health Trainer

I work one to one with clients supporting them to make healthier lifestyle choices. I know that just small behaviour changes can result in clients leading healthier and happier lives. Ina previous role I worked for Drink Wise Age well.

Katie Denning

Health Trainer and Stop Smoking Practitioner

Katie Denning

Health Trainer and Stop Smoking Practitioner

I have been a Health Trainer and Stop Smoking practitioner for over 9 years. I love working with people to help them improve their health and wellbeing. The best bit about my job is working in partnership with clients, helping them to achieve their goals, its such a rewarding job. Perhaps we will meet or speak at some point if you have any lifestyle changes you would like to make.

Lily Davey-Attlee

Community Engagement Programme Manager and Health Trainer

Lily Davey-Attlee

Community Engagement Programme Manager and Health Trainer

I am passionate about community-based initiatives to improve wellbeing. I’ve worked in a diverse range of settings and countries but a common theme throughout my career has been a drive to help others. I feel incredibly lucky to have a role where the direct impact of my work is seen on a daily basis and we really see the change in people’s lives when they start to make healthier choices.

Shana Gechie

Senior Health Trainer

Shana Gechie

Senior Health Trainer

I have worked in Health Promotion since 2012 in various community based settings and with various population groups, to support people to make healthy changes to their lifestyle and behaviours. I support people to stop smoking, drink less, move more and eat healthier and am very passionate about helping people to improve their health in a realistic way, which is individual to every person’s needs. I live in North Devon and love living by the sea, I surf as often as I can and love being outdoors.

Denise Veen

Senior Stop Smoking Practitioner

Denise Veen

Senior Stop Smoking Practitioner

I have been supporting smokers to quit for over 12 years. I like helping people to achieve their goal of quitting smoking and enabling them to enjoy a healthier lifestyle.

Melissa Montague

Health and Wellbeing Coordinator

Melissa Montague

Health and Wellbeing Coordinator

I am a Registered Dietitian and Accredited Sports Dietitian with over 20 years’ experience in the NHS, Sports and private sector. I am also a UKPHR Public Health Practitioner and specialise in Obesity, Health Promotion, Health Protection, Emergency Planning and Physical Activity. I have worked for OneSmallStep for over 3 years and enjoy my varied role which includes leading the Health Trainer and stop smoking practitioner teams, delivering training, engaging with our local communities and service development. My interests outside work include Ultra Distance running, fitness training and Kayaking. I am a Level 3 Personal Trainer and running coach.

Laura Bee

Health and Wellbeing Coordinator

Laura Bee

Health and Wellbeing Coordinator

My day – day role includes leading the Health Trainer and Stop Smoking practitioner teams, service development and ensuring all that we deliver is high quality. I also lead on the smoking cessation and tobacco control agenda for OneSmallStep, providing training and support to Level 2 trained smoking advisors across Devon within GP practices and Pharmacies.

Victoria Banks

Service Manager

Victoria Banks

Service Manager

I have worked within Health Improvement across Devon for 15 years in a variety of roles and have a real passion and commitment to deliver a high-quality service that supports Devon residents to lead healthier, happier lives. When I’m not working, my two children keep me busy, at weekends we love to enjoy the beautiful area we live in and go for long walks and bike rides.

Mark Keeley

Community Engagement Network Lead

Mark Keeley

Community Engagement Network Lead

My role involves promoting OneSmallStep to the public and developing and maintaining relationships with our partners in the community. I enjoy letting people know about our wonderful free service and the friendly, supportive role we can play enabling them to make a healthy lifestyle change. I live in North Devon and when I’m not working I enjoy getting involved in lots of community events.

Daniel Foran

Senior Nutritionist

Daniel Foran

Senior Nutritionist

’I am a Registered Nutritionist and qualified physiologist who has worked in Health Promotion for over 5 years in both the public and clinical sectors. I am passionate about supporting people to make small dietary changes aimed at achieving a healthier lifestyle and reaching their goals. By providing up to date, research backed advice I hope to remove the confusion around ‘what is a healthy diet’ and aim to find achievable and sustainable dietary habit changes with the people I work with. In addition to this role, I also create and present live nutrition focused sessions on a weekly basis through our One Small Step Facebook page which provides a source of additional information and support for the clients taking part in the service. In my free time, I enjoy playing tennis, running and cooking

Cathy Saunders

Health Trainer

Cathy Saunders

Health Trainer

I began working with individuals who want to make changes to their lifestyle in 2004, finding it to be an area of work I am passionate about. I joined One Small Step at the end of 2021 and am really looking forward to using my skills to continue to support and encourage people to achieve their goals.

Helen Tyler

Health Trainer

Helen Tyler

Health Trainer

I work as a Health Trainer for the One Small Step Devon service, helping people to achieve their healthy lifestyle goals. Health and wellbeing are a big passion of mine. I particularly enjoy empowering people to make choices, which enable them to live happier and healthier lives. I love spending time in nature, so enjoy walking on Dartmoor and having picnics on the beach.

Victoria Sullivan

Health Trainer (Service Support)

Victoria Sullivan

Health Trainer (Service Support)

I am a Registered Health Promotion Practitioner and Accredited Health Coach, and I have worked in the area of health and wellbeing for many years. I have experience of working in primary care and community settings in roles which involve supporting people to better health. Working in partnership with people in a way which helps them to build their knowledge, skills and confidence to improve their health is very rewarding. I live in lovely Devon, I enjoy connecting with the natural world, and you will find me at Parkrun on a Saturday morning

Kristine Hargreaves

Community Engagement Network Lead

Kristine Hargreaves

Community Engagement Network Lead

My role involves building relationships with a range of community based partners across Devon and engaging with the public at events in the community. I also deliver MECC training, a national behaviour change RSPH accredited programme. MECC is a behavioural approach which enables individuals to use a different approach to working with people to address health and wellbeing by improving a person’s self-efficacy and helping them to identify ways to improve their health. I feel very passionate about my role and enjoy engaging and meeting knew people every day.