Meet Honor Chalmers Clinical Manager

I am the Clinical Manager at Helping Hands, responsible for overseeing all clinical care delivered by our team and managing our excellent nurses.
I graduated from King’s College before completing an introduction to critical care course at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, where I gained invaluable experience caring for acutely ill patients. As one of only five ECMO centres in the UK, St Thomas’ provided me the honour of caring for patients with a wide range of serious and rare conditions.

After spending time working as a nurse in both Australia and the UAE, I began a new journey in the Accident & Emergency department at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although this was an incredibly challenging time, I found it fascinating. As a major trauma centre, every day was different and exciting.

Through the patients I met whilst working in A&E and critical care, I became passionate about home care and the importance of keeping people at home for as long as possible. This passion encouraged me to transition into home care, and before joining Helping Hands, I managed the care of individuals requiring complex care in the community. I am thrilled to continue my home care journey with the amazing team at Helping Hands.

In 2020, during the COVID pandemic, I took a job as an agency community nurse at the North East London Foundation Trust, where I worked in various community locality clinics. I developed my skills further in wound care, diabetes management, compression therapy and more.