Sarah Scahill has worked for the Partnership for nearly 20 years;
progressing through a variety of leadership roles including across
John Lewis shops, leading service for John Lewis, developing Partner
Capability, leading the Learning Experience and is currently leading
Care Experience for the Partnership. Sarah’s team deliver both
employability programmes and support broader work with the care
experience community as part of their Building Happier Futures
programme, all in service of becoming the employer of choice for
care experienced people. Sarah describes the current role as an
absolute privilege to be able to lead such meaningful work and
make a difference to a deserving community; having close personal
connections to both fostering and adoption.
The John Lewis Partnership is the UK’s largest employee owned
business and parent company of the two retail brands – John Lewis
and Waitrose, which are owned in Trust by over 74,000 employees
who are known as Partners. The organisation has an ambition to
be the employer of choice for care experienced people through its
Building Happier Futures employability programme.