Irmani has worked in housing and social care for the last 25 years, focusing on homelessness, mental health, domestic abuse, learning disabilities and care leavers. From 2016 to 2020 she worked for Look Ahead as Executive Director for Business Development, a registered provider delivering supported housing and community services to over 7,000 people per year across London and the home counties. She has extensive experience of strategic reviews, strategy development, service evaluations and service growth. Prior to that she has worked for a range of providers and local authorities.

Since 2020, she has worked as a consultant with a wide variety of clients across local government, health bodies including Integrated Care Systems (ICS) and Foundation Trusts, and providers. She is also a Board Member of Thames Reach, a homelessness charity working across London and previously was a Board Member of Refugee Action.

Example projects include:

• Strategic review of domestic abuse and supported housing pathway development, local authority
• Pathway development – criminal justice – county council
• Review of health provision for homeless people in temporary accommodation, hotels, and hostels for an ICS
• Evaluation and theory of change design and first evaluation for two rough sleeper drug and alcohol treatment grant services for a county council and two city councils
• Housing Needs Analysis for people with learning disabilities and mental health for an ICS
• Development of a risk assessment for rough sleeping tool for frontline housing workers
• Change management
• Organisational restructure
• Care and support
• Quality assurance
• Strategy development
• Local authority
• Integrated care systems
• Care and support providers