Staff Updates

Welcome to all the new staff who have joined us recently, we can’t name you all but we do want to send each and every one of you a very warm welcome.

As part of the organisation’s ambitious plans to create an organisation where we provide the highest levels of care for the people we support and where all our staff feel valued and encouraged to achieve their own potential, we have also recently filled some crucial senior roles.

An experienced HR Practitioner, Yvonne joined us in March as the new GroupPeople Director. She has held senior posts in several organisations and was, most recently, the Director of People & Organisational Development at the Brandon Trust, a learning and disability charity. Prior to this, her employment included working for two national charities, Cardiff Airport, various NHS organisations and Tesco.

Yvonne is person-centred, collaborative and is committed to upholding the highest standards of fairness and integrity. She is passionate about promoting wellbeing, equality, diversity and inclusion.

She has a deep understanding of the challenges facing the social care sector and is already formulating a strategy to tackle them in order to improve outcomes for those that we support.

She lives in South Wales with her family and has a range of interests including music and gardening.

Chris is our new Group Chief Financial Officer, joining Iris Care Group from Sears Healthcare. Chris is responsible for all the financial aspects of running Iris Care Group, as well as overseeing other key areas of risk, such as cyber and IT security.

Chris qualified as an accountant, with RSM in 2010, and has worked in number of finance roles.

Having joined Portman Dental Care and Sears Healthcare when they launched, Chris has experienced first-hand how companies grow and thrive and brings that experience with him to Iris Care Group.

Chris said: “It’s been great meeting some of the teams and I’m really looking forward to getting around the services and meeting more of you along with the people we support.”

Carole has recently joined the Iris Care Group as our Head of Quality. Carole has worked in health and social care as a nurse since 1977. She has worked in several general and specialist areas including being part of the Learning Disability Review Team post Winterbourne View, and was part of the lead team for NHS England on Learning Disability provision – ‘care nearer to home’.