Council Members
South East
2nd July 2024- Quarterly Meeting AGENDA 01
Council Members
Pat Conteh
Head of Clinical Services at Prestige Nursing and Care
I qualified as a Registered Adult Nurse in 2005 and since have worked in various NHS, Community and private nursing roles. During the last 10 years I have had experience as a registered manager for a national high tech nursing service as well as other clinical leadership and governance roles within health and social care. My core driver is to always to achieve clinical excellence through ensuring best practice and high standards of person-centred care to ensure clients have positive outcomes and outstanding quality care and support.
Debbie Clark
RNLD Registered Manager at Egalité Care
I am a Learning Disability Nurse with over 40 years of experience in Health and Social Care. Currently, I run my own organisation, providing support to younger adults in their own homes including Supported Living environments. With a deep commitment to advocacy, my primary goal is to raise the profile of Social Care Nursing, emphasising the crucial role of Learning Disability Nurses. Throughout my career, I have been dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for individuals with learning disabilities, ensuring they receive compassionate and personalised care tailored to their unique needs.
Marianne Davis
Locality Manager at Skills for Care
Marianne Davis is the Locality Manager covering the Surrey area. She started her working career as a Teacher and taught for a number of years. She came into social care in 1989 as a care worker and progressed into learning and development roles and management roles. Marianne was the RM for a large domiciliary care service and later an Area Manager for a SE charity.
In her role across Surrey, she works with a range of strategic partners including CCG colleagues, ICS colleagues, local authority commissioners, Quality assurance leads, as well as many employers across Surrey.
Sharon Lee
Senior Primary Care Workforce Programme Lead - NHS Kent and Medway ICB
I started my nursing career 44 years ago and still work clinically to this day. 30 years in the Primary Care arena working with some amazing colleagues. I am a Queen’s Nurse and proud to say I was awarded Freedom of the City of London a few years ago, as well as the Cavell Nurse Award.
In my early career I spent a year working within a Nursing home and developed a passion then for supporting my amazing social care colleagues who provide holistic care for our most vulnerable in society.
Helen Evans
Head of Education St. Wilfrid’s Hospice Chichester
Helen worked in acute oncology in London for the first twenty years of her career in various roles, including research (with several publications), oncology service manager and senior lecturer at the University of Brighton.
For the past eighteen years, Helen has enjoyed working in the charity sector in her local hospice initially, in a clinical role as a clinical nurse specialist in palliative care and then back in education, leading a team delivering palliative and end-of-life care education in Sussex and playing a pivotal role in this.
Social care is enormously critical to Helen and for patients at the end of life in this geographical region – Helen has strong links to social care in West Sussex. More recent publications include Loss, grief and Bereavement in Schools and Colleges.
Marisa Spice
Learning and Development Manager - Nellsar Care Homes
Qualifying as a registered nurse in 1998, Marisa has experience in the NHS and working abroad as a nurse and care home manager in Mallorca, before returning to live in the UK in 2013.
Having worked for Nellsar as a nurse, Home Manager, RN Development Manager and Operations Manager, Marisa’s passion for supporting people to develop and become confident and competent in their roles has always been the motivation to work with others. In particular, this is what drives her ambition to be part of the various strategies to raise the profile of social care, particularly for social care nursing (nurses, Nursing Associates, and students).
Marisa’s additional role as Operations and Compliance Manager with two small Homes (Totem and Tamarind Care) supporting adults with complex Learning Disabilities, gives her a more varied scope of knowledge and networking opportunities.
In 2021, Marisa was recognised for her work in social care, becoming a Queen’s Nurse and continues to promote the value and importance of social care.
Rian Gleave
Lead Nurse: Independent Health and Social Care- South East - RCN
Rian is the RCN’s lead nurse for Independent Health and Social Care for the South East region. His role includes celebrating and promoting the complex and diverse independent health and social care sectors and understanding the challenges and innovations to use the RCN’s voice to influence positive change.
Prior to his role at the RCN, he spent two years within the adult social care delivery group at the Department of Health and Social Care, having been seconded from the CQC where he spent a decade leading inspection teams.
Committed to lifelong learning, he has studied for a master’s degree in healthcare ethics and law, a postgraduate diploma in advanced practice (infection prevention and control) and an honours degree in health studies (aggression management).
He has a passion for improvement and removing barriers for nursing staff to deliver excellent care and support.
Claire Pegg
Regional Research Delivery Networks Health & Care Director for NMAHPs (Kent, Surrey and Sussex)- NIHR
Claire Pegg is an ITU nurse by background who discovered her love for research in 2011 whilst based in that setting. Since then, she has worked in the acute and community sectors delivering research of varying specialities.
In April 2023, Claire was appointed as the Regional Chief Research Nurse lead at the NIHR in Kent, Surrey and Sussex, where she spent 18 months working across all sectors to drive forward research that is led, delivered and supported by Nurses, Midwives and AHPs.
In August 2024, Claire was appointed as the NMAHP Health and Care Director for the newly formed Regional Research Delivery Network in the South East (Kent, Surrey and Sussex)
Joanna Grant
Care Quality Consultant - The Superior Healthcare Group
Joanna has a wide-ranging background in both the NHS and the Independent sector. She has worked in schools, community nursing and Continuing Care. She was a Chief Nurse in a large corporation providing homecare across the UK.
She now works as a consultant advisor to those working with children, young people and adults in the places they live and work, including hospices, residential homes/schools/colleges, and family houses.
Joanna is passionate about supporting people to achieve their chosen goals whilst remaining in their preferred environment; she supports nurse-led care, especially for those with complex needs and is an advocate for those people who need care at home and for the nurses and carers that provide this.
Caron Sanders-Crook RN BSc(Hons) PGCPSE MMgt FCMI Queen’s Nurse
Operations Manager Canford Healthcare Professional Nurse Advocate
Caron has worked in health and social care for over 30 years in operational, and quality and governance roles. More recent appointments include ICB Chair for Mid and South Essex Social Care Nursing Advisory Council. Caron has recently contributed to the Nursing Midwifery Council’s Post Registration Standards Assimilation Process and the Field Specific Standards Reference Group with the Queens Nursing Institute, developing and mapping Standards of Education and Practice for Nurses, for Community Nursing Specialist Practice Qualification.
She authored an Amazon best-seller, a no holds barred exploration of PTSD and its impact on families and contributes to a co-production group for veterans, reservists and families, designing services for Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust. She has recently been invited to the co-production group designing services for the East of England Women Veterans Pathway for Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust. Caron is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute where she coaches and mentors rising stars in the NHS and Social Care Sector and has recently qualified as an accredited Somatic Trauma Informed Coach.
Elaina Clark
Student Nurse University of Chichester
Elaina Clark is currently a Nursing student doing my apprenticeship through Sussex Community Foundation Trust and her team Chanctonbury Community Nursing Team.
Elaina's background before starting work for the NHS in 2020 was complex care both paediatrics and adults, Learning disabilities and end of life. Elaina decided to join the NHS to have the opportunities to enhance her skills through the available apprenticeship schemes.
As a community Nurse, she feels social care is crucial to her role as it directly impacts the well-being and holistic care of our patients. Elaina is passionate about community holistic care, holistic care involves addressing not just the physical health needs of patients but also their emotional, social, psychological, and spiritual well-being. Holistic care extends to the family and caregivers of the patient, which is a vast part of her role.
Shelly Hickey
Head of Quality & Governance – Aria Care
I began my nursing career at London South Bank University in 2005 and initially worked for the NHS. However, I truly found my calling when I took on my first role as a Deputy Home Manager. Over the past decade, I have worked with both small and corporate social care providers in roles including Deputy Manager, Home Manager, and within quality oversight.
I am passionate about making a meaningful difference in residents' lives every day. As Head of Quality and Governance at Aria Care, I firmly believe that nursing within health and social care is a deeply rewarding career. Our highly skilled workforce delivers compassionate, holistic care, and every time I visit a home and work alongside our dedicated teams, I feel incredibly proud of the work we do.
Tracy Eves
Nursing Associate at Healthcare Homes (Meadow House Nursing Home)
I am a mum of 2 boys (both adults). I have been married for 25 years. I enjoy running, eating out, holidays and walks with my dog.
I started as a Care Assistant at Meadow House about 29 years ago and always loved being a Care Assistant. I then became a Senior Carer completing NVQs. Healthcare Homes offered the Nursing Associate Apprenticeship, which for me felt like a dream to be able to qualify and learn, whilst still earning. I did the 2-year course and loved it, even the assignments. I had placements including theatres, gastro ward, spoke days with midwives, stoma nurse, social worker and many more. To be able to watch and learn from other professionals was incredible. Just as I was on my last placement covid hit and we went back to our places of work. Though the pandemic was stressful and scary it was a big learning experience. I work alongside the nurses at Meadow House doing the same role with them there for support. Meadow House is an incredible home and I continue to learn as well as gaining confidence within my role.
I won a star of Norfolk award for my role as a Senior Carer. I believe I won this due to my passion for social care. I still have this passion. I still believe the people we care for teach me and so for me to care for them in the best way I can is my way of paying back for what they do for me.
Victoria Mcharo – MSc Professional practice, BSc Health and Social care( District Nursing, DipHE Adult Nursing
Director/ Registered Nurse Manager McNaha Care
Victoria is a long-term care registered nurse. She obtained her first nursing qualification from West London University. Further, she went to complete her nursing specialist in District nursing and community health at the University of Surrey and has been in the profession for over 20 years. During her career, Victoria has worked in various healthcare settings, including hospitals, long-term care residential facilities, home-based care and care homes. This being in the NHS and private sector
Currently she manages a domiciliary care agency and supporting all ages to remain in the community being home or residential settings and manage their long-term conditions.
Victoria believes in focusing on the whole person when caring for her patients. She is passionate about providing quality care while remaining mindful of her patients’ individual preferences and needs. In addition to her career in nursing, Victoria enjoys volunteering her time in her local community and spending time outdoors.
