Pictured above: Steve Attwood

Newcastle-under-Lyme's Bibby Consulting & Support, specialist in employment law and health and safety legislation, has appointed Steve Attwood as its new Head of Projects, the most senior recruitment the company has made in many years.

The new post has been created in a continuing period of growth at Bibby CAS that has seen a dozen employees join in a matter of months. As the company expands, Steve's role will involve ensuring its services fully reflect and meet the needs of clients. He will also oversee how Bibby delivers services, developing solutions that will improve performance within the organisation.

Steve says: "I am delighted to be joining Bibby Consulting & Support at this exciting time when the company is going from strength to strength. Bibby already has an excellent reputation for its range of consultancy and support services but my brief is to look company-wide at how we can continually improve the way we work, what we do and how we do it. We want all our customers to benefit from a consistently high standard of service."

Before joining Bibby Consulting & Support, Steve was governance manager (ICT) at Staffordshire County Council. Other previous posts include change consultant: business transformation at Fujitsu Services, business transformation team at Walsall Council, and head of ideas and innovation at Barclays Bank Plc.

Steve's appointment follows a recruitment drive at Bibby CAS that has seen two technical consultants - Jennifer Grey and Samantha Sharp - taking up brand new posts in the health, safety and environment team. With a wealth of senior health and safety knowledge and expertise, Samantha has a degree in social welfare and experience supporting facility managers, while Jennifer has been a health and safety manager for several companies in the manufacturing industry.

Other appointments are as a result of the expansion of the Marketing team at Brunswick Street in Newcastle. This includes Kate Hardy, a specialist trainer for their Tele-marketing team, eight new telemarketing staff, and Stuart McNicholas a database analyst, who previously worked for the University Hospital of North Staffordshire.

Managing Director Michael Slade says: "Over the last year we have seen growth that has been driven by our commitment to customers and our ability to deliver the kind of support that they need. We are excited about the future growth of Bibby Consulting & Support and these key appointments reflect that confidence to expand further during 2011."