A day in the life of... rl onal Eileen was promoted to the position of Deputy Director of Care in October and | wanted to find ‘out more about all the amazing work she does! Thear you're an early bird! What time do you eed Cee ac ie Rr Cee em It’s my choice, but | usually get to work for about 6.30am | would say it is providing and work until 3.30pm. | find that the morning is a good a quality service. Care for time for me to get on.! think my ability to get up early the older person doesn’t stems from my nurse training when we had to burn the have a particularly good candle at both ends! name. However, we want to improve the quality of How long have you worked for Abbeyfield Kent? care, which will be helped Well, 've worked for Abbeyfield Kent for eight years. by the new Pegasus | started out as a Home Manager at St Martin's for two training scheme. years, and then | became Support Manager when HQ was Essentially, we want to. based in Larkfield. Whilst there, | was responsible for five improve the quality of life of the homes, and was Line Manager for the Sheltered of our residents by HouSihgiManager.Then | became Head of Quality, and in improving the care and @etober"| became Deputy Director of Care. quality of the services « 4 we provide. So what did you do béfore you came to Abbeyfield Kent? Prior co working ere, | worked for the NHS as a era oR) qualified nlirSe. But after 14 years | decided | wanted to work in care for the elderly.I became a Senior Sisterat Sutton Valence Nursing and Cage Centre,and thenmoved ‘on to be'Matron atValley View Nursing Home in Rochester. This is:the best job | have 5 : cover had. I was very eee = fore a eta g sleased to come to Cheam ~~ Abbeyfield Kent because Well, [am Line west Mgr eherei Home" ‘of the amount of care and “Managers, and | aim # Visie them on a monthly basis to attention given to the Support chem with) they-may face,and to help residents, which is so jem as they progress with their home. special here, ‘care complaints that come in directly to HO, or with any major horbe,complaints-As well-as/thisy! am a Senior Manager or/the on-call rota, My main task is to support to monitor identified = we all have to: work colleague-in need,