About Me
Hi there! I’m Kerry and I am the regional clinical lead nurse for the East of England. I joined Helping Hands in June 2021, absolutely love my job and plan to stay for as long as the company wants me! The role itself involves supporting our live-in and visiting care services with training the carers and producing our customers’ individual person-centred support plans. It can sometimes involve a lot of driving, but I absolutely love driving too!
I have worked in many settings as a nurse since qualifying and as the future of nursing changes, with the aim to keep patients in their own homes for as long as possible, I was inspired to work for Helping Hands. Their values are strong and always upheld, whilst delivering high-quality care at home – so I feel as if it is the perfect place for me to be.
Career Pathway
I began my career in care in 2010 as a support worker for adults with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. In this role I really found my passion for care and knew I wanted to take it further. I completed NVQ’s in Health and Social Care, Leadership and Equality and Diversity.
After completing a degree in Adult Nursing at Nottingham University, I began nursing on an Acute Surgical Ward, caring for some of the most acutely unwell patients who had all different types of complex surgery including bariatric gastric band surgery. It was here where I worked with the most articulate senior nurses who took compliance and documentation standards very seriously and of course, I followed suit and really developed my confidence in my ability to work to the highest of standards.
Qualifications and Professional Development
I worked in a variety of roles, beginning with a role as a clinical nurse educator for patients with multiple sclerosis, within the same company I then went on to be a nurse advisor for patients on biologic therapies across England and Wales for a variety of conditions including multiple sclerosis, severe complex migraines and brittle asthma.
From here, before joining Helping Hands, I went to work in another pharmaceutical company as a nurse advisor covering my own dedicated region, which was the East of England. Within this role, I was responsible for supporting patients on biologic therapy for ankylosing spondylitis, plaque psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.