Tony Somervell

Chaplain at Lister and QEII Hospitals, UK

Location: Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness

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Tony Somervell's Overview

Current

Chaplain at NHS Trust
Chaplain at Bedford Borough Council
Founder at Castle Photo Graphics (Self-employed)

Past

Spanish Call Centre Operative at Fusion Events, Bedford
Ordained Minister at Anglican Church
Deputy Head at St Andrew's College, Asunción, Paraguay

Education

The University of Birmingham

Recommendations

6 people have recommended Tony

Connections

124 connections

Websites

Former Teacher and Deputy Head at Secondary and Primary level (UK and South America).

Church / Pastoral work, (Anglican Church, South America)
Bilingual English / Spanish.

Assistant minister at Christ Church Bedford

Chaplaincy work at Bedford Borough Council

Freelance Photography: local business commissions for publicity and marketing, scan and edit old photos

Created website in 1998 for Hispanic Anglican Church and built up list of over 300 subscribers to weekly seed-thought that reached 300 editions

Specialties

Leadership / Teamwork in pastoral or educational context
Pastoral work, Counselling, Marriage Guidance
Spanish,
Fine Art Photography, Consultancy, Coaching

Chaplain

NHS Trust

Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry

December 2011 – Present (3 months) Lister Hospital, Stevenage & QEII Hospital, Welwyn Garden City

Chaplain

Bedford Borough Council

Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Government Administration industry

December 2010 – Present (1 year 3 months)

Part time post (with local church funding) providing pastoral support to all staff in their roles.

Founder

Castle Photo Graphics (Self-employed)

Self-Employed; Myself Only; Photography industry

January 2009 – Present (3 years 2 months)

After many years of hobby photography, Tony embarked in 2009 as Part Time photographer and PhotoCoach.
He is open to any commissions and will gladly discuss any projects you may have for your company involving taking unique photos and optimizing them them for website display, publicity, stationary, interior decoration etc.

Spanish Call Centre Operative

Fusion Events, Bedford

April 2010 – June 2010 (3 months)

B-lingual call centre operative, dealing with enquiries via phone / e.mail, about the Can Am Roadster (see http://snpurl.net/i3 )
Valuable experience, now I know what it's like in a call Centre (the advantage here was the enquiries were from interested people, not 'cold' leads.)

Ordained Minister

Anglican Church

August 1995 – December 2007 (12 years 5 months)

Church work, marriage counselling, website creation and development.
Previously worked in Birmingham, UK, teaching Spanish (Secondary School) , 1984-87, Argentina, (87-89) then Paraguay (Deputy Head in bi-lingual School) 1990-93, then 1995 - 2007

Deputy Head

St Andrew's College, Asunción, Paraguay

February 1990 – July 1993 (3 years 6 months)

Was Deputy Head at this bilingual school in Asunción, Paraguay

Photographer

English
(Native or bilingual proficiency)
Spanish
(Native or bilingual proficiency)

The University of Birmingham

BA.Hons, Spanish

1978 – 1982

Activities and Societies: Squash Club, Christian Union

Websites:

Interests:

Seeking new opportunity for service with Anglican church, para church, chaplaincy, charity, mission organisation. Bilingual (English / Spanish) business, Telemarketing Sidelines: Photography, Internet, Facebook coaching, blogging, entrepreneur startup Open to any occupation at present.

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