SUPPORT OFFICE TEAM
Lorraine Eade
Lorraine, originally from Dublin, has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology & Social Policy from Trinity College.
Sheila Ahmed
Sheila is an experienced Home Care Manager with 5 years’ experience in the Aged Care sector and 10 years in the Community Services sector.
Samantha Denman
Samantha is a Nurse Consultant based in Melbourne. She has worked in acute care for over 20 years as a registered nurse and midwife.
Drusilla Williams
Drusilla is our Clinical Support Advisor based in Melbourne. She has 25 years experience as a physiotherapist and 12 years experience in the Aged Care Sector.
Sarah McLaughlin
Sarah is a Registered Nurse and has a wealth of experience in acute care settings. Sarah joined the team in June 2023 as Clinical Governance and Quality Advisor.
Lea Suba
Lea is a Registered Nurse from the Philippines, brings over nine years of dedicated bedside nursing experience across the Philippines and Ireland.
Karmille Allyson
Karmille is an experienced Registered Nurse, who brings a wealth of expertise spanning telehealth, Work Comp Injury management, and specialised care in Aesthetic and Dental Nursing
NSW & ACT
Jaye Pamment
Jaye has a Bachelor of Nursing and a Graduate Diploma of Nursing – Renal stream (Nephrology). She has worked in acute and chronic care over the last 15 years.
Robyn Harrison
Robyn comes from a background in education and training, and has worked in business over many years, helping people to identify and transition to more rewarding work options.
Yvette Pedone
Yvette brings to Local Guardians over 25 years’ experience in the community services sector. Her qualifications include a Diploma in Community Services Coordination and Cert IV in Home & Community Care.
Karen Denny
Karen’s involvement in the community services sector has spanned over 35 years including as a worker, a manager, a teacher in the areas of Disability, Aged Care, and Community Development.
QLD & NT
Clare Pearce
Clare brings a wealth of experience and skills to Local Guardians, particularly in the community services sector across New South Wales and Queensland.
Emilie Patzwald
Emilie is a dedicated professional with a Bachelor of Criminology & Criminal Justice. She is currently pursuing a Post-Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Counselling.
Nicole Hughes
Having accumulated over a decade of experience in customer service, Nicole transitioned to the healthcare sector as an administration officer to pursue her passion for ensuring quality, safety, and infection prevention and control.
Kimalie Smith
Kimalie has a Bachelors Degree in Nursing and Cert IV in Training & Assessment. She has worked in the aged care and disability sectors for over 25 years.
Julie Morrison
Julie has her own home-based, small accounting practice and has worked for much of her life in bookkeeping and accounts management roles.
Jason Virtue
Jason has over 30 years of private, public and self-employment in and around the Wide Bay Burnett area.
Sarah Ramsay
Sarah is a professional who wears many hats, having operated her own successful hairdressing business for the past 16 years, servicing many elderly clients.
VIC & TAS
Gwen Marshall
Gwen, has over 30 years’ experience in the Aged Care and Disability Services having previously worked in both Aged Care and Hospital settings.
Melanie Raman
Melanie is qualified with Dip. Community Services, Cert III Aged Care and Cert III Med.Admin. Melanie has over ten years of experience in Disability and Aged Care Services.
Deb Ralph
Deb works with clients across Melbourne, with a particular focus on the Eastern and Outer Eastern Suburbs. For the past 10 years she has been working in the Aged Care and Disability Sectors.
SA & WA
Gwen Foakes
Gwen has spent the last 15 years working in the Financial and Insurance Industry specialising in Workforce Management as a Planning Analyst.
BOARD
Hannah Crawford
Hannah is an experienced Non-Executive Director with significant expertise in the health sector. She currently serves on the Boards of Confoil Australia and New Zealand Limited, the Bionics Institute and Neurosciences Victoria Limited.
Ross McDonald
Ross has a background in marketing, finance and information technology as an Executive with PriceWaterhouseCoopers (Advisor), Spotless Group (Commercial Management), Sensis (Strategy), Benetas (CFO) and MYOB (CFO).
Dr Tim Ross
Tim is the Deputy Chief Health Officer for Telstra Health, responsible for the clinical safety of all products and services provided by Telstra Health. He joined Telstra Health in June 2019 as Medical Operations Director for the National Cancer Screening Register.
Katrina Ong
Katrina is currently a Partner at Pride Living leading the Quality Management and Clinical Governance services of the advisory firm. Prior to this, Katrina has worked in ‘hands-on’ roles with Residential Care operators, Estia Health and Bupa Aged Care.
Christopher Best
Chris has deep people & culture leadership with 20 years’ experience paired with his background in legal practice across employee and industrial relations.
Dr Nancy Huang
Nancy is an experienced public health clinician and independent board director who has held senior executive roles in design, implementation, governance and evaluation of health programs within the commercial, not-for-profit, academic and government sectors.
Anna Millicer
Anna Millicer has worked in community aged care for over 30 years and championed the consumer self-directed care movement in Australia through advocacy, research and best-practice service design.
We also partner with a number of organisations throughout Australia to deliver home care packages, these include:
