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.