Staff Profiles
Sr Patricia Heller S.S.A – Care Home Director
With over thirty years' of service at St Teresa's, Sr. Patricia knows every aspect of the Home. During the first five years at St Teresa's Sr. Patricia worked as a carer before moving into the role as Home Director. With understanding the needs of the Residents, the roles of the carers and the strength faith has, means that Sr. Patricia is the ideal person to drive the Home to be the best it can be.
Loyola Goodsell – Matron
As an experienced nurse Loyola joined St Teresa's over twenty five years ago as the Deputy Matron and was then promoted to full role of Matron five years later. The standards of care for the Residents is the primary driving force for Loyola and this has been acknowledged with St Teresa's achieving the Gold Standard Framework for nursing care for the first time in 2010 and held since under her guidance.
Sr Jennifer Brown S.S.A – Deputy Matron
For the past twenty years Sr. Jennifer has had the role as Deputy Matron. Prior to this Sr. Jennifer had been working at St Teresa's for six years supporting the care of the Residents. Sr. Jennifer takes responsibility for the `People Handling` training and monitoring in the Home, providing classes and development to the team.
Chris Glynn – Finance
After fifteen years' working across IT, Support and the Training Industry, Chris has spent the last ten years at St. Teresa's managing the office activity. Some thirty years ago Chris worked in both the kitchen and as a cleaner while studying.
Donna Kalkauskiene – Head Chef
Joining from another Home for the Elderly, Donna became the Head Chef at St Teresa's in 2018. This experience and skill brought to St Teresa's has meant that the kitchen has continued with its award of five stars from the Food Standards Agency. Specialist nutritional guidance has been used to ensure that the kitchen produces only the highest quality and most delicious of options.