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Mhairi Walker

Caledonian National Trainer & Advisor

Mhairi Walker

Mhairi's role

Mhairi is one of the National Trainers and Advisors for the Caledonian System; Scotland’s accredited domestic abuse perpetrator programme with integrated women and children’s support services.

Mhairi’s role involves the co-designing and delivery of all relevant training for the Caledonian System, whilst also being involved in the development of the manuals and guidance to support the national delivery. Her role also involves providing ongoing expert advice to the Local Authorities in Scotland who deliver the Caledonian System.

Background

Mhairi commenced her career within Community Learning and Development, before achieving her BA (Hons) in Social Work. Since then, she has accrued substantial experience working across a range of Justice Social Work settings, including both custodial and community environments.

Mhairi’s background roles involved specialising in case management and groupwork delivery of both sexual (Moving Forward Making Changes) and domestic abuse (Caledonian) accredited behaviour programmes. She also has extensive experience working within the Justice Social Work system where she has fulfilled a variety of roles including Social Worker, Senior Social Worker and Assistant Team Manager.

Mhairi become involved in training delivery in conjunction with Community Justice Scotland for various Risk Assessment tools (including Spousal Assault Risk Assessment SARA v3 and Stable and Acute 2007) in 2022, before taking up her current role in 2024.