Senior Management Team

At Dr Kershaw’s Since: April 2021

Sarah is responsible for education and training at the Hospice, primarily of the Clinical Team but she is also supports with the mandatory training of all Hospice staff. Sarah supports the Nursing Team in meeting their training requirements by ensuring they have access to the latest clinical and hospice care training to enable them to provide outstanding care for our patients. Sarah’s role also involves highlighting ways to develop and improve practice, providing management and training on less routinely used clinical skills to embed confidence within the team. Sarah also delivers clinically focused training to teams external to the Hospice and has produced an Education & Training prospectus to showcase our Hospice Training offer.

Previous Experience:

Staff Nurse – Emergency Admissions Unit at Fairfield General Hospital; Staff Nurse – Critical Care Unit at The Royal Oldham Hospital; Sister – Critical Care Unit at The Royal Oldham Hospital

Professional Qualifications:

Change Management- Level 7 (Masters Module); Greater Manchester Critical Care Course- Level 7 (Masters Module); BscHons Nursing Practice University of Manchester; DipHe Adult Nursing Manchester Metropolitan University

At Dr Kershaw’s Since: March 2016

Kelly is in charge of our 12-bedded IPU, providing specialist symptom management for palliative patients and individualised end-of-life care for each patient. She is responsible for the day-to-day running of the unit, ensuring that high quality, compassionate care is consistently provided to all patients and their families. She is part of the Senior Nursing Team and she identifies opportunities for improvement, planning and implementing relevant changes.

Previous Experience:

Senior Sister – Dr Kershaw’s Hospice; Sister – Dr Kershaw’s Hospice; Staff Nurse – Dr Kershaw’s Hospice; Student Nurse – University of Salford; Health Care Assistant – The Royal Oldham Hospital

Professional Qualifications:

BSc (HONS) Adult Nursing: The University of Salford; Hospice Leadership and Management Development Programme: EOLP; The Multi-Professional Support of Learning & Assessment in Practice Programme: Bolton University.

At Dr Kershaw’s Since: December 2024

As our Community Services Manager, Nicola is responsible for managing the Hospice at Home and Caring Hands services. She provides specialist leadership and support for all staff to  deliver specialised palliative and end-of-life care in patients own homes. She also ensures that high quality, compassionate care is consistently provided to all patients and their families.

Previous Experience:

Nicola initially worked as theatre practitioner at Rochdale Infirmary, before becoming a staff nurse on Dr Kershaw’s’ Inpatient Unit. She went on to work as clinical nurse specialist in pain management for Northern Care Alliance, supporting patients with both acute and persistent pain presentations in hospital and community settings. She later worked as a specialist palliative care nurse in the community setting, based at Springhill Hospice in Rochdale.

She has a specialist interest in pain management and palliative care, innovation and quality improvement. She is passionate about teaching and education, most recently delivering pain management in palliative care sessions on The University of Bolton affiliated palliative care degree module based at the Springhill Hospice education centre. She was nominated by colleagues for an Outstanding Contribution Award at Springhill Hospice last year for going the extra mile in contributions to patient care and support provided to other staff.

Professional Qualifications:

BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing  (University of Salford); Palliative and End-of-Life Care module – Level 6 (Salford University);Preparation for Mentorship-  Level 6 (University of Salford);  Non-Medical Prescribing – Level 7 (Manchester Metropolitan University); Maguire Advanced Communication Skills (Christies)