James Mills

Home Manager

I am proud to be the home manager here at Branksome Heights care home. I have worked for Kingsley since 2024, through various roles such as Clinical Lead, Regional Support Manager, and now Home Manager. My main objective is to maintain the local reputation of Branksome Heights, the family feel to the home, and also the resident and staff wellbeing. My healthcare career began in 2016 as an support worker and progress through various roles. I am also now a qualified nurse, which enhances the field of knowledge her at Branksome Heights to drive it to its best potential. In my spare time I love to spend time outdoors, socialising with friends and family, and expanding my knowledge base. Please pop in anytime to come and say hello!

Helen Roy

Deputy Manager

It has been my pleasure to work at Branksome Heights for the last 6 years, developing from Senior Carer, to Family Laison and more recently Deputy Manager. I know the home so well, having worked on the front line of care, through to a more managerial role. I love to get involved with care and with the daily goings on in the home as much as possible. I consider that I have been really lucky to work in such a great home and with a fantastic team of staff, who share my unwavering commitment to excellence in care that combines traditional with holistic care to provide a full and enriched life for each resident. It means a lot to me that Kingsley Healthcare is a family-owned and family-operated business, and that I am totally supported in my work fitting around the needs of my daughter, who attends a local school and who is a regular, popular visitor to the home.

Shalini Sajan

Homes Administrator

I was delighted to join the team at Branksome Heights in July 2023 following studies for my Master’s Degree in Cyber-security. Whilst studying I worked as an Administrator on bank with the NHS. Everyone at Branksome Heights has been so welcoming and supportive, including the lovely residents. I started working in Hospitality/Reception and was delighted to be promoted to the role of Home Administrator. The Home is very beautiful with a warm friendly atmosphere, and a special place to work. I am married with one small son, and in-fact my husband also works here at Branksome Heights as a Senior Night Support Worker. We both really enjoy working for Kingsley Healthcare and our works fits in so well with our family time too.

Karen Caswell

Receptionist

I have worked in administration for many years and in a variety of roles. I particularly love the Care Home environment and feel right at home here at Branksome Heights, helping to create a warm friendly welcome to the home. I enjoy meeting new people and building relationships with residents, families and staff. Branksome Heights is only a short walk to my home, and is in such a lovely area surrounded as it is by woods, parks and close to the sea. It is a joy to see residents’ families coming along to take their loved ones for local trips out and for walks to Coy Pond and through the Chines to the sea front. I enjoy being creative and love producing menu designs, writing our newsletters, and sometimes the occasional poem

Bev Tomlinson

Clinical Lead

Joining the dedicated team at Branksome Heights is a great opportunity for me, especially at this special time having newley received their Nursing Accreditation. I bring with me 37 years of nursing experience, the last 18 of which have been in the Nursing Home sector, with the last 10 years as Clinical Lead. I have previously worked as a Ward Sister in a local Private Hospital in Women’s Health and as a Breast Care Advisor, helping patients from diagnosis to follow up. I grew up in a small fishing village in Cornwall, Polperro, and left there after college to go and study for my nursing registration. I have never looked back, it is my career and vocation. All I was missing was the seaside, and hence my move to Bournemouth. I live locally in Westbourne, and love to travel all around the UK, ideally in a motor-home. This fits in very well with my favourite hobby – photography. The UK has so much to offer which such beautiful landscapes and places to visit. I am very happy to have joined such a fantastic team as Clinical Lead of Nursing, and look forward to developing this new, and extremely valuable additional level of care to the home to compliment the already successful Dementia and Residential care.

Carmen Ionas

Head Of Care

I have been working in care for over 13 years, and Branksome Heights is truly my passion. I treat our residents with the same love and respect I would give my own family. Kingsley Healthcare gave me the opportunity to study for my NVQ 5 in Operational and Departmental Management, and I passed it this year with Distinction. I’m also deeply committed to supporting and mentoring my colleagues to help raise care standards to the highest level.

Paige Parker

Activities & Lifestyle Co-ordinator

My career began at the opposite end of the rainbow in Residential Children’s Care, working with children with Autism, which I did for 7 years. I have recently also hit the 7 year mark working at Branksome Heights, in my role as Activities Co-ordinator. I love being part of the fantastic team here, and we are lucky to have a super bunch of residents too. All activities are very much enjoyed by the residents, my particular passion being the cookery club and making special cakes for Branksome Heights for our Kingsley Healthcare competitions. Branksome Heights feels like a home-from-home and I often bring along my young son to our various events. I was so well supported here when my little boy was expected and he has been welcomed into the Branksome Heights family with open arms.

Adam Lenherr

Head Chef

I qualified from Bournemouth College with a GNVQ level 2 and 3 and at the beginning of my career worked in hotels. In Bournemouth I have worked in the Branksome Beach Restaurant, and then West Beach where we won the AA seafood restaurant of the year award. I am really pleased to be working with a strong team of catering staff at Branksome Heights. I get the greatest satisfaction in listening to the feedback from our lovely residents, and to providing them with delicious, nutritious and satisfying meals that they enjoy, and which they look forward to throughout the day. Having joined the fantastic staff at Branksome Heights I have since moved house to live closer to the home. I enjoy cycling in my spare time, and also entering competitions for my cuisine, and have won a few including 3rd in a Street Food competition which was country wide.

Siriphat Bristow

Head Housekeeper

Siri has worked at Branksome Heights for five years and has recently been promoted to Head Housekeeper. She has a lovely sunny disposition, is always smiling, and always energetically cleaning our home. Siri leads a great team of Domestic staff and her exacting high standards can be seen, felt, and indeed, smelt around Branksome Heights as she keeps us fresh and clean.

Noela Chituh

Admiral Nurse

Hello My Name is Noela Chituh and I am a mental health nurse. I started my career in mental health nursing as a support worker in a mental health home for people who had just left hospital. It was here I first found my passion for helping people with mental health problems. However, it was not until I did placements at university that I discovered my love for working with the elderly and with patients with a dementia. This led me to my first job as a nurse on a dementia ward. Here, I felt that the work we did as a nursing team was relevant and valuable and made a difference and I felt truly fulfilled. I love learning and teaching and when the opportunity came to do Research, I embraced it. I have been a research nurse for the past couple of years and though I have enjoyed this, I am looking forward to going back to where I feel I belong which is helping people with a dementia, their families and carers. To say I am excited about taking on the Role of Admiral Nurse Clinical Lead at Kingsley Healthcare is an understatement. I look forward to embedding an effective service and making a genuine change in the lives of people with a dementia, their carers and their families.

Dushan Kyupov

Home Maintenance

I am very proud to have been in the position of Home Maintenance at Branksome Heights since 2019, and more recently appointed Regional Maintenance covering our 4 Dorset Homes. I am passionate about my work keeping the homes safe, clean, and operating smoothly and giving excellent service to our Residents and also my fantastic team of colleagues (which includes my wife Head of Care on Nights). My new role will see me working not only at Branksome Heights, but also our two Homes in Weymouth and one in Highcliffe. It gives me great satisfaction to be able to be trusted as a safe and hardworking pair of hands. All of our Homes are fantastic and in a particularly beautiful part of the country.

Simon Lewis

Regional Lifestyle and Hospitality Manager

With 28 years of experience in the hospitality industry, Simon started as a chef in Weymouth and Portland hotels before progressing to London where he had the honour of cooking for the Royal family. In 2013, he transitioned to the care sector, achieving accolades such as South West Care Chef of the Year and Most Nutritional Menu. He says his goal is to always provide a great plate of food for every individual, regardless of dietary needs, with resident-led menus.

Tracey Millar

Operations Manager

My entry into the care sector was in 2008 when I joined Highcliffe Nursing Home as administrator. I have since progressed to deputy manager, home manager and operations manager, becoming regional operations manager last year. I love the fact that the staff at our Dorset homes are all team players and support each other. It's important to me that Kingsley is a family business and the family ethos is present in everything we do. Outside of work I enjoy gardening and walking my dogs.

Cyril Fomonyuy

Service Quality Manager

I have worked in the care sector for 22 years, starting as a Registered Nurse in my home country of Cameroon. I joined Kingsley in 2016 as a registered home manager and subsequently progressed to Service Quality Manager. I love the culture at Kingsley which invests in and empowers its staff and supports career progression. Outside work, I am an author and write and do research about leadership and management.