Mr Steve Hyde is the manager of The City Centre Team of Cardiff County Council Social Services

WINNER: Team Leader

Steve Hyde is the manager of a specialist multi-disciplinary team, The City Centre Team, which works with rough sleepers and vulnerable people within the city centre of Cardiff.

In 1997, Steve was set the task of forming a team which would improve the lives of the homeless and destitute in Cardiff city centre, working in partnership with the statutory, voluntary and commercial sector. The exceptional skills and personality of Steve Hyde has meant that this unique team has had recognition throughout the UK. His management style had lead to the development of other services to meet the needs of the most vulnerable, such as the Breakfast Run, The Outreach Bus (Night Bus), and Streetlife, a project working with sex workers on the streets in conjunction with Safer Wales, CAU, CADT, South Wales Police and the voluntary sector. It is Steve Hyde’s ability as a manager and compassion as a social worker that has enabled these projects to develop.

Steve is an outstanding leader of people. His ability to listen, support, advise and be contribute constructively has ensured the major success of the team. The team received a Community Care Award in 2004 for the work of the Night Bus.

Steve is a unique leader who offers advice and compassion. He is a devoted motivator, generating the drive behind this unique team of outreach and social workers.

Tell us something your colleagues don’t know about you?
I am a busy semi-professional musician and I play the squeeze box

Who inspires you?
My wife Lyn

What is your top leadership tip?
To have a clear vision in order to be able to communicate effectively to others