Management Team
Our management team consists of the highest managers and director’s in the organization. It is not just a collection of top managers, but also a team whose results are leveraged by increased cooperation and teamwork encompassing all the different functions of the organization.
Paul Wyatt
Board Director
Paul is the founder of Unique Support Chief Executive since 2016 with a wealth of knowledge and experience within the disability and charity sector.
Paul has always had a keen interest in the care sector, starting his career as a support worker for Government in the UK after 10 years of military service. Paul’s career excelled and by 2003 Paul had become a registered manager and an internal verifier for the British Government.
Paul then went on to work for the largest and biggest charity within the UK, (The Together Trust as Registered Manager). Moving to a mainstream Secondary School as Pastoral Care manager before being headhunted for Children’s services for a private disability provider in within the North of England.
Paul emigrated with his family to Perth, Australia in 2013 and took a new role as a coordinator for The Autism of Western Australia and in 2016 collaborated with other professionals to which Unique Support evolved and became a registered non for profit disability provider, with an amazing reputation for dedication and attention to detail.
Dave Wolstenholme
Board Director
Dave Wolstenholme comes from a business background of new business enterprise, medium business growth, and large business sustainability. Dave has successfully set-up businesses in a variety of industries such as transport and logistics, immigration, retail, and manufacturing.
Dave worked in the Mental Health Sector in UK in medium and high secure units. Having since immigrated to Australia, Dave worked in corporate roles in mining and gas.
Dave was instrumental in business success through team leadership, cost analysis and reduction, project management, and ensuring financial viability for large departments.
Dave co-founded Unique Support with Paul Wyatt by using his business experience to start-up the organisation. Dave joined Paul as a Director in June 2022.
Colette Knox
Business Director
Colette Knox is business professional with 15 years practical experience of financial management. Colette has qualifications in Accounting, Business, Quality Auditing and is currently completing a Masters of Business Administration.
In recent years Colette has gained extensive experience of the NDIS by managing and overseeing various aspects of Unique Supports’ growth, in particular around financial, HR and registration compliances.
After becoming a mother in 2015 Colette ran her own bookkeeping business, before joining Unique Support full-time in 2020. Colette now manages the Financial, Human Resources, IT and Quality Assurance aspect of the organisation under the role of Business Director.
Diane Avice
Strategic Director
Diane is a proud mother of two humans and two fur kids. Being born overseas, she embraces her diversity and multiculturalism. She is a strong advocate against family and domestic violence and an activist for creating a better life for future generations of women. Outside of work, she enjoys volunteering her time with our elderly at a Bethanie aged care facility. She also offers her time to amazing causes such as the UN Women, 100 Women and Women of Colour Australia.
Diane brings years of experience in Disability across a variety of supervisory and management roles in Disability Employment Service, Local Area Coordination with WA State Government and Specialist Planning with the National Disability Insurance Agency. She specialised in complex planning for participants with behaviours of concern and has worked extensively with State Governments across the nation over the past three years. In her role, Diane has also coached and mentored Specialist Support Coordinators nationwide. Diane’s professionalism and work ethics is commendable and leads by example.
Diane is proud to be a part of the Unique Family, where we celebrate diversity through empowering people with Disabilities in their everyday lives. Unique draws on Diane’s expert knowledge of the NDIS to offer you, your best NDIS experience yet!