NEWS HR
April 9, 2024
Staff at Barchester Healthcare’s Claremont Parkway care home, in Holdenby, Kettering have welcomed a new General Manager to head up the team. Jacob Bindura will oversee the running of the purpose built 61 bed home and will be responsible for a team of carers, nursing and hospitality staff. Prior to starting in this position Jacob was an emergency nurse for several years before working in an Urgent Care Centre as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Deputy Quality Lead.
April 8, 2024
A new luxury retirement village in Yorkshire has appointed a former sous chef at Buckingham Palace to its team. Kevin Connor joins Audley Scarcroft Park, near Leeds, as head chef at its Thackeray’s restaurant. After being headhunted to work for late Queen Elizabeth II for several years, which saw him hosting state banquets, birthdays and Christmas at Sandringham House, Mr Connor relocated to just outside of Leeds. Before joining Thackeray’s, he worked at several well known hotels in the local area.
February 28, 2024
Retirement Villages Group (RVG) has made three senior appointments to help the business deliver 5000 new homes over the next 10 years. Duncan Matthews joins Retirement Villages Group as development director and will oversee all aspects of development for RVG’s Thrive Living collection. This collection is a flagship property proposition focused on putting senior living homes back into the heart of communities, whilst meeting the highest standards in sustainability, design, and build. Matthews will lead on all development aspects from buying new sites, scheme design, planning consents and construction management. He joins with the aim of making the Thrive Living collection a market leader for Integrated Retirement Communities, adding to Retirement Villages Group’s existing 16-village portfolio. Matthews has over 20 years’ experience working in residential development, including 14 years at the Berkeley Group. Matthews said: “Retirement Villages Group is pioneering retirement living with their primary focus of putting older people at the heart of communities. Simon Dickinson, as sales and marketing director, will head up RVG’s sales and marketing teams, supporting the next phase of RVG’s growth strategy. Joanna Atkins joins as head of care, wellbeing and community, and will play a critical part in developing and carrying out RVG’s wellbeing assessments with residents across all 16 villages.
February 5, 2024
Specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co, has announced the appointment of Eve-Angelica Apperley to its healthcare brokerage team.
January 30, 2024
Abronhill Housing Association has unveiled a new director to succeed current director Stephen Macintyre who is set to retire. Chair Craig Burns said that Audrey Murphy has joined Cumbernauld-based association effective from 10th January 2024.
January 30, 2024
Riverside has appinted Paul Dolan as the group’s new chief executive. His appointment follows the announcement last September that Carol Matthews will be retiring this year.
January 30, 2024
Shelter Scotland has appointed four solicitors to its specialist housing law team. Stephen Humphreys, formerly partner with Shepherd & Wedderburn and latterly litigation consultant with BTO, brings extensive housing litigation experience and social housing sector knowledge acting for landlords. Rona McLeod joins from the Legal Services Agency where she was deputy head of the housing & court team, and brings a wealth of technical knowledge and defender Sheriff Court and Tribunal experience. John Ballantine also joins from LSA where he specialised in actions for defended evictions and other heritable matters, and Alex Hendrikson, formerly housing adviser with the Shelter Edinburgh community team, joins as a second-year trainee assigning from the Scottish Government Legal Service.
January 17, 2024
Audley Group, a UK provider of retirement villages, has appointed Gary Burton as COO, adding to his current role as CFO. Since Joining Audley in 2020, Gary has led finance, legal, IT, risk and governance and corporate development.
