Trevor was a Social Worker and Commissioner in Health, Social Care and Housing for over 30 years, mainly supporting young people preparing for adulthood, disabled and older people before becoming a Lead Commissioner for Autism, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health. He now works as an independent Neurodiversity Trainer and Consultant.

He was diagnosed as Autistic when 56 and has an autistic daughter. He has been involved in the Oliver McGowan initiative from the outset, being a Lead Trainer on the original Trials, Tier 2 Lead Trainer for Derby NHS Hospitals and Co Trainer on the NHSE funded OMMT Training the Trainers programme and has delivered neurodiversity training to a range of organisations from Morrisons PLC to the Royal Navy.

Trevor is also the Autistic Co Chair of the DHSC Autism Strategy Implementation Group and a member of the OMMT Code of Practice Group and Building the Right Support Stakeholder Group as well as a Peer Reviewer for the LGA and a Lived Experience contributor to several regional and national several Skills for Care and NHSE projects.

Trevor is also a published poet with two poetry collections to date and has appeared at Nottingham, Gloucester, Ludlow and Edinburgh Festivals. He, set up the Derby Poetry Festival and the Social Model Disabled Writers Group. With Writing East Midlands he also established the Beyond the Spectrum creative writing project for Autistic people and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.