Before coming to SDF, she previously worked for Simon Community Scotland starting in 2018 as a volunteer with their Rough Sleepers and Vulnerable Persons Street Team and then gaining employment as a Support Worker within one of their female homelessness services.

Kathleen was then seconded to the Glasgow Overdose Response Team, a test of change funded by Drug Death Task Force, initially as a Harm Reduction Practitioner, moving on to Service Co-ordinator after a year. Kathleen has successfully completed an SVQ 3 in Health and Social Care.