Our talented and experienced team that
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Meet Our Team
These are the people that help make the magic happen
If you would like to read a detailed description of each team member, simply click on their name.
- All Team Members
- Care Homes Team
- Domiciliary Care Team
- Extra Care Team
- Head Office
- Learning Disability Team
- Our Managers
- Reablement Care Team
- Recruitment Team
- Training Team
Clair Hall
I joined Nexxus care in July 2018 as the Chief Operating Officer. I am legally responsible for the business along with 5 other board directors.
My role is to ensure the business is run safely and effectively adhering to all regulations at all times. I set the strategic direction for the company and attend regular board meetings to share business updates monthly with all board members. I have worked in the care industry in a variety of roles for 13 years and can quite honestly say I would not do anything different.
I am immensely proud of what Nexxus have achieved since trading started in Jan 2018 and thoroughly excited for the future of Nexxus Care, delivering care to those that need it across Staffordshire, safe in the knowledge that policies and processes are embedded throughout
the organisation to deliver high-quality care, supporting Staffordshire County Council and the framework of all Staffordshire care providers. A personal motto of mine: “It's not what you do, it's why you do it.” Nexxus Care is all about the ‘why’, myself and the teams around me all understand the why, and that’s so vitally important.
Danielle Harley
I have previously worked in both home care and domiciliary care and have around 3 years of experience within the care sector. I joined Nexxus at the beginning of September 2021 as a recruitment administrator. My role is to ensure that all our compliance checks are completed to the highest level, ensuring we recruit the strongest, most trustworthy carers possible. All of us here at Nexxus is very passionate about the level of care provided and want to ensure both our service users and staff are consistently happy. I am proud to be a part of the Nexxus Care team.
David Stupples
I have worked in the care sector for 12 years, I started as a volunteer community support workers for a Learning Disabilities charity in my spare time, I enjoyed the role so much I left my job working on Apple contracts for TNT and took a position as a support worker for adults with learning disabilities, I progressed to Team Leader before moving into Residential Care with Accord housing as Duty Senior and was tupeed across to Nexxus Care in July 2021.
It’s been a whirlwind 18 months where I have progressed to Deputy Manager thanks to Nexxus for putting their faith and trust in me and investing in me as a person, here at Meadowyrthe Nexxus have provided us with a lovely environment not only for us to work in but for our residents to live in, investment in the building, staff training, equipment and resources have all brought together a fantastic caring and safe environment for all the people we care for and everyone who works in and visits the service
Dean Munslow
I am the registered manager at Woodlands View. I have worked in care since 2008 and I started as a support worker, supporting amazing people like you! In my other positions I have worked alongside great teams just like we have here and having great people around me has given me lots of experience. I am new to my role at Woodlands view and I am very happy to be working with the team I have to make sure our service users are safe and comfy during their stay at Woodlands View.
Denise Wherton
I have worked in the care sector for over 30 years. After completing college, I worked for 10 years in a residential care home, and moved into the home care sector, where I have been fortunate enough to progress. I started as a care worker, moving to a senior care worker, co-ordinator, registered manager and for the past 8 years as a regional trainer. I have worked with Nexxus for nearly two years and find them to be passionate about the work that they do.
Donna Lundrigan
I have worked in the health & social care sector now for over 30 years, 22 years spent specialising in supporting adults with learning disabilities, autism, complex needs and challenging behaviour.
I began my career as a support worker and through personal development, experience and gaining formal qualifications, has enabled me to carve a career as a registered manager with my previous employer onto operations management managing the business in its entirety and commissioning various care services in Staffordshire creating fantastic opportunities for people with learning disabilities so they can lead a meaningful fulfilling life with choice, empowerment and control, to create new experiences and opportunities based on their identified needs, their own personal goals and wishes after all, those in our care are at the heart of what I do.
Ellie Ziarno
Emma Holdcroft
I currently manage School Court Extra Care Scheme, Hednesford. My role as Registered Manager is critical in the adult social care sector as at the heart of any service is a manager who is working hard to ensure that they can create a person-centered culture that delivers great, high-quality care. This is School Court, and this is Nexxus. School Court currently provides care for 25 Residents and emergency response to all 41 Residents living at the Scheme. I am also Operational Lead for Residential Services. I support our two Residential Care Homes, Meadowyrthe and Bracken House with any operational support they require.
Erica Matthews
I have worked in the care sector for 14 years and joined Nexxus Care in February 2019.
I have worked my way up to Registered Branch Manager, my care days started as a support worker for people with Learning Disabilities before moving into Domiciliary Care as a care worker, I then progressed into the role of a coordinator which I did for a number of years before moving into the role of a Care Delivery Manager. I am proud to be part of the Nexxus Care team making a difference to people's lives.
Haleigh Johnston
Helen Atkins
I have been working in the care industry for 15 years starting my journey as a care worker. I have worked in a residential care home for the elderly and then moved into community work which I thoroughly enjoyed, and further progressed to become an administrator for the care company I worked for. In December 2018 I transferred over to Nexxus Care. Where my career has progressed further into recruitment. At Nexxus Care, we are passionate as a team to provide the highest level of care and support to all customers.
Joan Trevis
My journey into care started with me working in housing and managing independent living schemes, which I found very fulfilling. I enjoyed signposting customers to get the help they required to be able to continue to live as independent as possible. During this time SARH converted Jubilee Court into an Extra care scheme, this was thirteen years ago, whilst covering at Jubilee on the housing side the concept of Extra care became my passion, I signposted a lot of customers to live at Jubilee Court as I felt that it was a great way forward for people to live a fulfilled life, but to still have that independence of been able to shut their front door to the world if that is what they wanted, or to attend lots of activities and become a part of the Jubilee Community, having care on site 24hrs a day 7 days a week really sold the whole concept to me. I was approached by the care provider in Jubilee to see if I had any interest to becoming the manager of Jubilee Court Stafford. That was the start of my journey, which was 12 years ago now. I have managed many schemes as well as jubilee Court, I also went on to be an area manager, managing managers in Extra care schemes so I have seen the model working around the country which amounts to lots of very happy customers and hopefully a broad knowledge of Extra Care.
Joanne Cairns
I started in the care industry as a personal assist for a young gentleman who was a quadriplegic after sadly having a major motor bike accident. This gentleman I believe, showed me the importance and value of life itself and how things can change in a heartbeat. I worked for 3 years with this gentleman and then progressed into the community care world. I enjoyed going around meeting lots of different people who all had interesting adventures/stories to tell of their lives.I worked in the community from 2006-2012, I was then offered a post as a senior care worker within Chestnut Grange Independent Living Scheme and accepted. I worked my way up to a Team Leader and became the Line Manager in 2016. I was TUPE over to another company in 2019 and TUPE to Nexxus on 2023 and have been promoted to the Branch Manager. I am hoping to become the registered manager within the next year at Chestnut Grange.
Karen Cook
I have worked in care since 2004, I started working for the NHS on a mental health assessment Unit for the over 65's. I left to gain experience in the community and became an MH support worker for SCC, I moved on to work for Allied Healthcare in 2011, I worked as a coordinator, and progressed to branch manager in 2017. In Dec 2018 I transferred to Nexxus Care. My job role entails managing a team of branch staff and carers, it is to ensure rotas are complete to enable carers to attend customers to provide personal care and medication, complaints are dealt with in the correct time frame.
I have a team of around 90 carers and a team of 12 branch staff. The branch currently provides care to around 150 customers within the community. I thoroughly enjoy working for Nexxus as we have a very supportive senior management team, the main goal is to provide a high level of care and support.
Kayleigh George
Nexxus Care provides the Step Up Reablement Service across Staffordshire and South Staffordshire, offering short-term support for up to six weeks to help individuals regain their independence following illness, injury, or a decline in their health.
We also receive referrals for individuals new to care and POLR (Provider of Last Resort).
The service is designed to prevent hospital admissions when a person experiences a decline in their health or at a crisis point. We offer timely, practical support, we aim to stabilise situations and build confidence and independence within their home.
The service is supported by an Occupational Therapy Team, dedicated Occupational therapist and Occupational therapy assistant which include a dedicated staff ensuring personalised plans are developed to maximise independence with daily living tasks.
Our approach focuses on enabling individuals to do things for themselves, together with the Support worker if they are struggling, rather than having tasks done for them. This includes suggesting the use of aids and adaptations, as well as utilising the "Box of Tricks" – practical tools and techniques designed to promote safe, confident daily living. This will enable them to gain confidence and independence.
Laura Lapthorne
I joined Nexxus Care in December 2018 as Operations Director. I have 24 years of experience in the Health and Social Care Sector. I have varied roles in the industry from a care worker, co-ordinator, Registered Branch Manager, Care Delivery Director, and now Operations Manager. I love working in the care sector and thrive off the difference and impact our care team has on our service users' lives. Our service can be the difference between somebody remaining independent in their own home or going into full-time care. Our goal is to help the residents of Staffordshire to remain independent in their own homes for as long as possible.
My Mum sadly suffers from advanced Alzheimers so I know and understand how important care workers are to support my family.
Lisa Leeson
I have worked in residential care for over 35 years. During this time I have covered both days and nights, and have worked my way up to the position of Manager (Registered Manager). I am responsible for the health, safety, and well-being of all residents, staff, and visitors to the home. I believe that we must offer the best possible care to our residents whilst also supporting their families and loved ones. We achieve this through a highly motivated, well-trained, and caring team. I am extremely proud to be part of Nexxus Care.
Louise Mckittrick
My job is to engage with and empower new carers and create a space where they can ask questions about the job they will be doing and ensure they know what will be expected from them working for Nexxus Care. Training is a two-way process so it’s really important to make sure new carers are actually learning when doing our training sessions. We go through an array of topics in classroom training as well as at home working and also online training to ensure we cover all avenues of the learning process.
My job is to also do mandatory update training with our existing staff to ensure everyone is up to date with current policies and procedures and current regulations and legislations relating to their job role.
Marie Smith
Samantha Lewis
I have worked in the domiciliary care since 2015 , I started my journey as a care worker and through opportunities and professional development, I progressed to Senior Care Worker. I joined Nexxus Care in 2019 as a Senior Care Worker and have since progressed into the role of Deputy Manager in our Stafford Branch and am now working as a Manager at Beacon Park.
Skye Duffy
I have worked in the healthcare industry for over 10 years, starting as a bank worker in domiciliary care, and working my way up by hard work and dedication, to my position now with Nexxus, as residential deputy manager. I have gained my qualification in management and my level 5 in health and social care which I am extremely proud of.
I am a strong believer in teamwork and would never ask my staff to do something I wouldn’t be prepared to do myself. I love working in health care and will always make sure the resident’s health and wellbeing are a priority by ensuring all staff work in a person-centred way and treat everyone as if they were family. Seeing a resident with a smile on their face makes realise I made the right career choice.
Stacey Shorthouse
In my role as a recruitment manager, I believe that every member of the team plays a pivotal role in delivering the best care we can. I am proud that we pride ourselves on high levels of compliance checks and the recruitment we follow. The recruitment stage plays an important part in the onboarding of all new employees to the business. From working in the care sector for over 10 years I am a strong believer that is important to build good working relationships from the start. This can only be achieved by knowing that the recruitment team is friendly, open, honest, and caring to every individual that applied to the service.
I find my role very rewarding knowing that we are recruiting caring individuals to ensure our service users remain as independent as possible.
