Nursing

Meet the Team

Our team of Nurses and Healthcare Assistants (HCAs) is led by the Head of Nursing Services, Gemma Roberts. Gemma is registered by our regulator the Care Quality Commission and oversees our clinical activity and management of the Team.

Our Nurses have amassed a wealth of community care experience. They provide hands-on nursing care and symptom management so that both patients and families receive the best possible care in their homes.

Our HCAs

The nursing team is supplemented by a team of Healthcare Assistants who work with patients and families to provide respite care and occasional personal care. They are not trained nurses, but are selected for their practical caring skills and passion for ensuring patients receive the very best care possible.

Head of Nursing Services 2024 Review

We’re incredibly lucky to have an exceptional nursing team who work tirelessly to provide the best possible nursing care at home.

The nursing team continues to grow with nurses selected for their caring, professional qualities with a special interest in end of life care.

We’re incredibly lucky to have an exceptional nursing team who work tirelessly to provide the best possible nursing care at home. We do our upmost to meet the needs and wishes of patients and families, ensuring essential support and care is available to them.

Our collaboration with SHWP (Stour Health and Wellbeing Partnership) continues with the warm hub. On the last Thursday of each month, you’ll find us at the Scout Hut in Shipston, ready to welcome anyone who would like to join us for soup, support and friendly conversation.

We continue to provide bereavement support to the loved ones of our patients and the wider community. Please contact us via the website if this service might be beneficial to you or someone you know.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our supporters. Without your generosity it would be impossible for us to fulfil our vision of ensuring every adult in our community has access to free, high quality end of life care at home.

Gemma Roberts – Head of Nursing Services

Gemma is a Registered Nurse who trained at Coventry University and started her nursing career in Critical care. Soon after Gemma realised her passion was in community nursing and she joined the Shipston District Nursing team.

Palliative care then became her special interest and she then joined the Stratford Evening Nurse Service, where she worked closely with local Hospice at Home services and developed a keen interest in Hospice at home care. Gemma is committed to giving people choice at the end of their lives and being part of Shipston Home Nursing allows her to make this to happen.

Heather Goding – Nurse Coordinator

Heather qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1993 from the Norfolk and Norwich Teaching Hospital, her final placement was on an Oncology/Palliative Care Unit and it was this experience that shaped her future career.

In 1999 Heather relocated to Worcestershire and gained her Bsc in Palliative Care from UCE Birmingham. Heather’s entire nursing career has been devoted to working within the field of End of Life Care both in clinical and managerial roles and as such she has developed excellent communication and assessment skills.

Heather joined Shipston Home Nursing in May 2019 and says it is a privilege to be part of such a dedicated team.

Caroline Ann Lloyd – Nurse Coordinator

Caroline moved into community nursing at the Ellen Badger Community Hospital in the nineties and, after 8 years, joined the District Nursing Service in Wellesbourne. This service was merged with the Shipston team and she met and worked alongside Shipston Home Nurses before joining us in November 2016.

Caroline says she finds it a privilege to help and support patients and their families at this stage in their lives.

Suzanne Roberts – Nurse Coordinator

Suzanne started her Nurse training aged 18 years at Clatterbridge Hospital on the Wirral. Once qualified she worked on the Oncology Unit for 5 years starting a life long interest in palliative care. Suzanne then started district nursing putting her palliative care experience to good use in the community where she remained for 23 years.

Suzanne joined Shipston Home Nursing in 2018, initially as a Bank Nurse and then as a Nurse Coordinator.