At The Fleet Care Home, we are a team of professional and compassionate individuals who are dedicated to providing unrivalled levels of person-centred care to all of our residents. Teamwork is important to us and together we work hard to build strong relationships, treat each other with respect, and collaborate at all times to ensure that our staff, residents, and relatives at The Fleet Care Home receive the highest quality support.
Marc is the Home Manager at The Fleet Care Home. Working in care for over 15 years, Marc started his career as a carer and worked up to become a qualified nurse and then on to Registered Manager. Marc has been working as a Home Manager for over 6 years and loves what he does.
Marc joined The Fleet in April 2024, and has a passion for truly Person-Centred care and delivering high standards with every service provided within the home. Marc is working hard to develop the Home and is looking forward to sharing the vision and the changes with the residents and their families in the coming months.
Lizzie has been working at The Fleet since it opened and is passionate about her role within our home. She finds the best part of her job is helping make the residents feel happy in a safe and secure environment. Lizzie loves being a part of the team and is known to spend time with the residents getting to know each one of them.
Lizzie takes the families of prospective residents around the home ensuring they get to meet as many of the team as possible. This is part of the job she really enjoys and is always proud to show our home to them.
Outside of work, Lizzie enjoys spending time with her loved ones and motorbiking across Europe.
Sarah Pinhorne is the Head of Unit for our new Dementia Community here at The Fleet. Worked in care for over 31 years and throughout her career as a Healthcare assistant, Senior Healthcare assistant, before completing her nursing training at Plymouth University and becoming a Registered Mental Health Nurse.
Sarah has had experience of working in dementia care, both in EMI and overseeing a Dementia Care Community before. She has a passion for ensuring excellent care is provided at all times and the support and care that is delivered is person centered and holistic.
Sarah is incredibly excited to take the helm of this new and tailored service at The Fleet, leading our trained team to make the lives of our Residents with Dementia truly enriching and enjoyable.
Viv has been working in care for the past 25 years and has been with The Fleet since it opened. Viv has worked up from a carer to a Head of Unit, and is now Head of Unit for Drake, our residential community. Viv really enjoys supporting our residents, prompting their independence, and making every day special for them. Compared to all her previous jobs, Viv says this is the best of them all! Viv loves being able to help others and says we are all like a little family here.
Leanne is a Team Leader at our care home and joined our amazing team in July 2021. Over the past few years, she has loved getting to know everyone and has enjoyed supporting all of our residents as she finds the role very rewarding.
Kimberley is the proud Head of Activities for The Fleet! She loves coming up with a wide variety of enjoyable & meaningful activities for our residents. Kimberley manages the bookings, creates the posters & designs the schedules. Her role also includes fundraising (local and national charities), community engagement and running ‘The Fleet Care Home’ Facebook Page.
During her years at The Fleet, we have welcomed a wide variety of music entertainers, music workshops, arts & crafts master classes, magicians, animal visits and had children from local preschools & primary schools. Proudly collaborating with other care agencies and homes in the local area.
Kimberley takes real pride in her work and hopes to make a difference to people’s wellbeing. To enable individuals to carry on with existing hobbies & interests and even discover some new ones during their time with us. Kimberley says “It’s a real privilege to work in health care and to learn about each individual as they join us at The Fleet”.
Bradley has been working within care for over 10 years and he loves what he does, especially caring for people within our home. At The Fleet, he works throughout our home as he is a ‘Senior Care Assistant’ and also helps with clinical administration.
Adam is one of our Senior Care Assistants. Adam works in care because he believes that everybody deserves to live a happy and dignified life in the way they see fit even if they need help to achieve it. “Regarding my work, I am passionate about person-centred care which I believe is the most important segment of our numerous duties. If the passionate section is more about my personal life, I am most passionate about educating people in my own way about the importance of history and human nature through the lens of history.
As a hobby I do like a good long drive, it enables me to think clearly. I also like to lose myself in fantasy or sci-fi worlds while reading or watching movies”.
Aloha is one of our ‘Senior’ Care Assistants and has been working in the care sector for over 17 years. She loves her role, especially as she makes such a difference in other people’s lives.
To Aloha, care is so much more than ‘just a job’ and working at The Fleet makes her feel valued!
Holly is one of our wonderful Care Assistants. After completing her degree in counselling, Holly decided that wanted to be more hands-on and has loved getting to know each and every resident here at The Fleet.
John is Head of Maintenance at The Fleet, safety is his main priority for residents and staff. John enjoys helping residents turn their en-suite rooms into a mini home, with pictures and knik-knacks that bring back happy memories.
Pammy is one of our ‘Housekeeping Assistants’ at our home and she is a massive part of making sure our home remains to be a tidy and safe environment. Pammy is known for taking time to speak to our residents and forming relationships with people new to our home.
Catherine is a Housekeeping Assistant here at The Fleet Care Home, having joined the team in June 2022. Catherine has loved getting to know everyone and enjoys a good chat with our residents; she finds her role to be very rewarding. In Catherine’s spare time, she enjoys walking her dog, looking after her grandson and baking and decorating cakes.
Nick along with Sue runs the Laundry here at The Fleet Care Home in Dartmouth. Nick’s job is to ensure that not only is there plenty of bed and table linen and towels on all of the floors but also that all of the residents have their personal clothes washed and returned to them. It’s an important job and both Nick and Sue feel rather proud of their “part of the ship”, having it run really smoothly. When Nick isn’t collecting and distributing, he likes to try and find the time to stop and chat with our residents.
Tracey is our Receptionist here at The Fleet Care Home. Having been born and bred in Dartmouth, Tracey has worked for the past 30 years in Care and Admin. Tracey loves dealing face-to-face with people and is very passionate about her role at The Fleet and being able to build relationships with our residents and visitors.
My name’s Karen and I have recently joined the Fleet team as a receptionist. I am really enjoying working as part of such a friendly, welcoming team.
