EXPERT CARE AT HOME IN REDHILL AND EAST SURREY, FOR ALL OF LIFE

I have worked for Prestige Nursing & Care in Redhill for over four years.  I left the retail industry to work within a more fulfilling role.  I joined Prestige as Care Co-ordinator which helped me gain an in-depth knowledge about the provision of high-quality home care. I then became a Care Manager and was seconded to temporarily manage the Prestige branch in Dartford.

Since working at Prestige I have continued to develop my skills and qualifications and am proud to have achieved a Skills First Level 3 Diploma in Business Management, Skills First Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services – Adults Management. I am currently working towards Skills First Level 5 Diploma in Operational and Departmental Management.

I am now responsible for managing both the Redhill and Chingford branches.  My heart has been, and always will be in care and I have a huge passion for ensuring people get the very best care and my team is supported to deliver the high standards of care we expect at Prestige in Redhill.

Throughout my career, I have developed and maintained a passion for teaching and have coached and mentored many members of both professional and allied staff in order to reach their potential.  In my spare time, I actively volunteer for Cancer Research UK, and am Vice-Chairlady for the Bridgwater Friends branch in Somerset, which despite being small is very busy and the branch has recently celebrated raising one million pounds for the main charity.

As a Regional Clinical Lead with Prestige, I provide professional leadership and operational management to the registered nursing workforce, across the South West Region.   Working alongside our expert regional nurse team I support all aspects of complex care provision ensuring every client receives compassionate high-quality care which is evidence based and aligned with best national practice guidance.

Emilie qualified as a Children’s Nurse in 2012, and started her career on a General medical ward in Bristol Children's Hospital and then moved to the Children’s Hospice, where she spent years, providing both complex medical care, end of life care, and bereavement support to children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. In this role, she worked both clinically and in the role of practice educator, developing and implementing training packages for the care team.

Emilie has completed post-graduate study in Children and Young People’s Palliative care and Teaching and assessing in Practice, and is currently undertaking a further module in Evidencing work-based learning at the University of the West of England. 

Passionate about clinical education, she enjoys seeing people learn something new, or consolidating their skills to ensure that they are consistently delivering the best possible care.  She aims to standardise training across the organisation, ensuring that we can deliver the safest and most effective care to all. 

During this time, Sue has held positions in community mental health services, healthcare research and higher education. Her doctorate focused on resilience and well-being in friends and family members who provide care and support to a person living with dementia.

Sue’s role at Prestige focuses on ensuring our services enable people with dementia to remain in their own homes, receiving person-centred care that builds their confidence, skills and promotes well-being. Sue set up a carers support group for families living with a rare dementia in 2017. This regional group is affiliated to Rare Dementia Support (RDS), a world-leading UK-based service provided by the UCL Dementia Research Centre (DRC) funded by The National Brain Appeal.

She was a committee member on the recently published NICE Guideline for Supporting adult carers [NG150] and is currently working with the NICE Quality Standards Advisory Committee for this guideline. Sue has worked as a Specialist Advisor to the Care Quality Commission since 2013, supporting the Commission’s regulatory activity in adult social care services for people with living dementia.

My first role as a nurse was at Great Ormond Street Hospital where I worked on a general neonatal surgical unit specialising in gastro-intestinal conditions.  After gaining valuable experience, I then joined two nursing agencies in London providing both support in complex care packages and various London hospitals in the private and NHS sectors on surgical and medical wards.  In 2012, I joined a Children’s Community Team in London, where I worked for seven years.  It was a hugely rewarding role, with much of my time spent providing care and treatment for children with cancer.

The experience I gained as a Children’s Community Nurse has proved invaluable in my current role at Prestige Nursing & Care in Shrewsbury as I am able to support our teams of carers and nurses, as well as the children and families we care for to ensure they get a high-quality and competent nurse-led service.

I then moved to Worthing and joined a local 20-bed nursing home as Clinical Lead, caring for people with late-stage dementia, supporting behaviour and mental health needs. In this role I played a pivotal part in improving compliance to meet CQC and adult services regulations.  I was then promoted to Registered Manager and worked to achieve the Gold Standard Framework for end-of-life care for the home.  During my time as a Registered Manager, I trained to teach safeguarding adults, continued to teach moving and handling, infection control and basic life support.

I joined Prestige in 2018 providing nursing care in hospitals, nursing homes and to people living in their own home as the Regional Nurse in Shrewsbury and other locations in the south west region. In my spare time I raise money for different charities, which include a 24-hour spin class for the MS Society last year.