Meet the Challoner House Care Home Team

Hi, my name is Sarah, and I am the Senior General Manager here at Challoner House. Welcome to our website!

I head up a team of highly trained care staff at Challoner. Prior to starting this position, I worked in healthcare for 20 years and have been with Barchester since 2009. I come to Challoner with a wealth of experience, both in care and management.

Before joining Barchester, I worked in various healthcare settings for over 20 years. I run a team of highly experienced nurses and care staff here at Challoner. I have brought to Challoner my wealth of knowledge and experience, and I am committed to providing the highest quality of care and nursing.

Please feel free to pop in and meet me and my lovely team at any time.

I have been a registered nurse for the last 13 years, I have worked previously in both hospitals and nursing homes before joining the team at Challoner House as a Senior RGN.

In my spare time in enjoy getting out and about exploring new places with my family and I love listening to music.

I joined Challoner team in June 2023 as an administrator, and my duties include recruitment, Finance and general Administration, alongside welcoming visitors into the home.

Prior to this I have worked in the care setting as an administrator and have also worked in Southampton university and doctors surgeries doing general admin work. At Challoner House I work as a job share with my colleague Dani Maker.

I started my chef career as a second chef in a hospital before coming to work at Challoner House in May 2023 as the Head Chef which I really enjoy and have had the great opportunity to further my chef skills by attending the Barchester Chef Academy. 

In my spare time I enjoy home cooking and baking and travelling around the world learning new culinary skills I also enjoy socializing and going home to Poland to see my family. 

I have worked here since 2014, where I started in the kitchen, and also did night shifts as a carer. I have hopped between departments before settling into housekeeping in 2019, and then being promoted to Head Housekeeper at the tail end of 2019. I am thoroughly enjoying this new role!

I joined Challoner House 18 years ago as a care assistant, I then went on to train as a Nurse through the Barchester Development programme and have just been promoted to clinical deputy manager.

I joined Challoner’s team in January 2012 as an Administrator, and my duties included processing the recruitment of new staff, finance and general administration, alongside welcoming visitors into the home. 

Prior to this, I worked for 3 years at Southampton General Hospital in the cardiothoracic radiology bookings office, and as a receptionist in the cardiac MRI unit.  During my time at the hospital, I gained valuable administration experience, in addition to achieving a distinction pass in touch-typing, however, I wanted to broaden my skills, and have an opportunity to learn about financial administration as well as some areas of HR, which is what drew me to working for Barchester.

I was working full time as Challoner’s sole Administrator up until 2017, when I then had a year’s maternity leave to enjoy raising my daughter. Since returning, I now work two days per week and job share the Administrator role with my wonderful colleague, Alison, of which we have a very supportive working relationship that ensures the efficient running of our department. 

Lizzie and I are always happy to assist with enquiries and show new visitors around the home, so please come and say hello.

I started working for Barchester 11years ago as the Head of Activities before taking a year out to care for a family member, I returned to my Head of Activity role 6 years ago, since being back I have also had a chance to expand my career opportunities as the home administrator but I missed spending time with the residents so went back to being the Head of Activities.

I have a real passion for Activities and get a great deal of pleasure in enriching the residents' lives through meaningful activities. I love getting to know the residents and spending time with them finding out what they love to do. Every day is very different and rewarding.

In my spare time I love travelling around Europe in my motorhome, spending time with my family and three rescue dogs Peter, Wilson and Riki. 

Hi, my name is Karim and I am the head of maintenance at Challoner House, I took on this role in August 2024.

I am a fully qualified Electrician and am now enjoying a new challenge here at Challoner House. The role is so diverse and no day is the same, making the job engaging and satisfying.

Outside work, I am a qualified Latin and Salsa Dance Instructor and enjoy playing Football, I also enjoy traveling back to my family homes in Morocco and Italy.