Meet the Red Oaks Care Home Team

I commenced my career at Red Oaks in 2015 progressing from a registered nurse to a senior nurse and now I am very proud to be assisting the senior general manager leading the team.

I am very passionate at providing outstanding care ensuring that residents and their families are receiving person centred clinical and social care.

I am a passionate, dedicated and committed working alongside my team to make a difference every day to residents lives.

I started work at Red Oaks in 1990; at the time, I thought that I would stay for 6 months. I have had various roles over that time, all care related, and I have received a lot of training. I am a Care Practitioner and Head of Unit on Lavender floor, which is one of our dementia floors.

I have had the privilege of meeting and caring for some truly amazing people. I love my job at Red Oaks, with no two days ever being the same.

In 2017, I was nominated for a Barchester Care Award, and was very surprised and humbled to win the Lifetime Achievement Award.

I qualified as an RN1 and RMN in the 1980s and, after a career in psychiatry, I joined the team at Red Oaks as the care manager. After many years, I still love coming to work and have met and worked with many lots of wonderful people. My role is to ensure a high standard of care is consistently delivered to those we support. Out of work, I love travelling with my family, and reading gives me great pleasure.

I have worked at Red Oaks for 16 years and I consider it as my second home. I love being a Nurse! It is responsibility is to ensure the high quality care of our residents, maintaining their general well-being and making them happy. At Red Oaks, we work as a team!

Home Administrator

I have worked at Red Oaks since April 2005, initially on reception before becoming Administrator in March 2006. I gained my NVQ level 3 in Business & Administration in January 2009. I am responsible for supporting residents, relatives and staff with administration, financial and HR matters. The Admin team give a warm welcome to all our visitors and help to create the homely, family atmosphere that spreads throughout Red Oaks.

I have been working at Red Oaks for more than 10 years, during which time I have worked in most departments. I get to meet with the families of potential residents, who are seeking to find the right level of care for their relatives. I love showing our fantastic home to everyone who visits and I feel privileged to be able to offer help to families regarding, what is often, a very difficult and emotional decision.

My role as activity coordinator at Red Oaks is ensuring that all residents have a full and varied activity program. Using our getting to know me books and knowing our residents backgrounds develop our activity program. Having lived in Henfield for the past 10 years I enjoy assisting residents maintaining and forming new the community connections.

I am passionate about my role, the part is having fun and making people smile.

Hello, my name is Ian, and I am the Senior Head Chef here at Red Oaks. Having had almost two decades managing catering operations within the care home environment, I am very pleased to be included in the team here. I am hugely passionate about delivering a nutritious, well-balanced and inviting meal time experience to those who are living in our care.

During my career, I have enjoyed various engaging roles, including Divisional Hospitality Manager, Regional Operations Manager and Head of Hospitality. My focus is to lead my team and work closely with the wider nursing and care teams to enable a whole-team approach to providing a dignified and person-centred dining experience, whilst also collaborating with the activities team to create fun-filled and exciting food-led events.

The catering team here work tirelessly in their endeavour to drive standards and create a memorable experience for all residents, and look forward to mentoring and leading them to every success.

I enjoy working at Red Oaks, I ensure that the home is well maintained and work with external contractors to ensure all equipment and the home itself is safe and fit for purpose. I enjoy chatting to the residents as I go around the home and it’s a lovely part of my job to build relationships not only my colleagues but with the residents in their home.

My role as Hospitality Manager means that I am responsible for the restaurant and also for the  hostess services to the Assisted Living Apartments. I maintain overall responsibility for hygiene procedures and I ensure that staff follow these at all times. I am also responsible for the housekeeping and laundry function at the home.

I started working at Red Oaks in 2015 and have since completed my NVQs and am now a Care Practitioner. During my time at Barchester I have taken on separate roles including Safeguarding Campion. I am Team Leader on Lavender and work with a great team. I have always been fond of looking after people with dementia and over the years have raised money for Dementia UK.