Our mission

By informing, supporting and educating care professionals, our mission is to transform the lives of people living in care with hearing loss by means of improved access, independence, equality and inclusion, therefore breaking down barriers and supporting overall wellbeing.
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Aims and experience in care settings

The Engage team embraces person-centred and relationship focused approaches. Our projects have vigorous training components accompanied by assessments of the built environment, care culture, protocols, access and responsiveness.

We provide care organisations with ongoing support and are available to help with troubleshooting and resolving issues for as long as we are needed.

Our Values

Our team

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Padraic Garrett, BA (Hons), BD (Hons). MSc.

Head of Engage

Padraic has over 25 years’ experience in the care industry. His roles have included Service Manager and Registered Manager to care homes and day centres for older adults, Dementia Lead, Mental Health Centre Manager, Hospice Care, and Pastoral Care Chaplain. His extensive experience gives him a unique understanding of the challenges faced by both frontline staff and senior management.

He holds a master's degree in person-centred dementia care and is a qulaified Executive Coach and Mentor (ILM Level 7). He has an ILM post-graduate ceetificate in Leadership and Management. He joined Engage in 2021 having worked closely with it as a customer since the prject's foundation.
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Andrew Goodwin

Engage Service Manager

Andrew has been a deaf awareness trainer for over 25 years and has over 50 years’ first-hand experience living with hearing loss. Working in the charity sector since 2003, Andrew has trained and supported hundreds of volunteers and given medical and psychological support to thousands of people with all types of hearing loss.

For 4 years, he worked at Deafness Research UK, increasing the awareness of hearing loss by delivering hearing screening and supporting the Bionic Ear Show with over 150,000 audience members across the UK. In 2016, he was instrumental in the set up of Engage (formerly Hearing Matters in Care), developing the training package, polices and reaching out to care homes. He has also run multiple hearing aid maintenance clinics across London.
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