Welcome to Cherry Blossom Care Home

Joanne is the Home Manager at Cherry Blossom Care Home and a Registered Mental Health Nurse with over 13 years’ experience working across a wide range of complex and high-risk care environments. Her background includes medium secure and forensic services, custodial settings, nursing homes, and specialist brain injury services. Joanne is deeply committed to delivering person-centred, recovery-focused care and to improving outcomes for people with complex health and neurological needs.
She began her career as a newly qualified nurse in a psychiatric hospital and quickly progressed to Ward Manager, driven by her commitment to clinical excellence, strong leadership, and service development. Joanne later moved into a Deputy Manager role within a nursing home, where she gained valuable experience leading teams and ensuring high-quality care for residents with diverse needs. From there, she joined the prison service as Mental Health Lead, providing strategic oversight of mental health provision within a challenging custodial environment.

More recently, Joanne has worked as a Registered Manager in a specialist brain injury service, leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, effective, and compassionate care. She brings a calm, values-led leadership style, underpinned by strong clinical expertise, robust governance, and a clear focus on continuous improvement.

Outside of work, Joanne enjoys spending time with her family — her husband, two daughters, and her beautiful granddaughter — as well as their much-loved (and very spoilt, occasionally naughty) labradoodle, Theodore. She also enjoys weekends away, taking time to relax, recharge, and indulge in a little retail therapy.

Nadiyah is a dedicated Registered Nurse, with a degree from Birmingham City University (2015). She began her nursing career in 2016 at Cherry Blossom Care Home, where she’s grown professionally within Allegra Care’s resident-centred and compassionate environment. Nadiyah’s journey culminated in her promotion to Clinical Services Manager in late 2022—a role that allows her to foster collaboration between staff and management, ensuring her team feels supported, motivated, and skilled.

In her role, Nadiyah enjoys balancing clinical practice with leadership, guiding her team toward best practices and promoting high-quality care for residents. She is committed to facilitating her team’s development, creating opportunities for them to advance their skills and careers within Allegra Care’s innovative household model.

Outside work, Nadiyah is a people person who treasures time with family, friends, and good food. Her personal values of connection and positivity shape her approach to creating a welcoming, homelike atmosphere for both residents and staff. A core believer in positivity, she views challenges in healthcare as chances to learn, grow, and lead by example.

For Nadiyah, Cherry Blossom isn’t just a workplace—it’s a community. She’s grateful to be part of a team that values care, professionalism, and growth and looks forward to continuing to make a meaningful impact.

A post-graduate with a Master’s Degree in Business Administration in Marketing & Finance and ten years’ experience in the finance sector for leading multinational banks, Sam brings strong analytical and problem-solving skills to his role at Cherry Blossom Care Home. An expert in client relationship management, with an ability to grasp clients’ requirements and deliver appropriate solutions, he also holds a Higher Diploma in Software Engineering.

He became Bank Administration assistant within a couple of months of joining Cherry Blossom Care Home in 2020. He then moved on as the Home Administrator at another home in the group for a couple of months, before returning to perform this function at Cherry Blossom.

As part of the senior management team, Sam manages the home’s finance, payroll and administration matters. He welcomes residents and their families with a smile, and he is liked by customers for his gentle nature.

Home Service Assistant Nicola has been part of the Cherry Blossom Care Home team from day one. Before joining Cherry Blossom as a Care Assistant, she worked for ten years as a manager in jewellery retail. Her transition to a service assistant role was driven by excellent customer care skills and her passion for making a difference in people’s lives.

Nicola welcomes all visitors with a warm smile and assists them according to their needs. One of her key roles is helping prospective residents, family and friends with tours of the home - a responsibility she maintained during the pandemic, with all the rigorous safeguarding restrictions that entailed. A daily visitor to our residents to deliver their newspapers, Nicola knows the value of simple pleasures like a chat and a laugh.

She is also a key member of management team, helping in the daily running of the home in aspects such as organising supplies, recruitment of staff, interviews and meetings with management. Well-liked by staff, residents, their relatives and friends, glowing feedback consistently highlights Nicola’s sunny disposition and calm efficiency.

Jayne brings over 30 years of experience in health and social care and a depth of knowledge that spans almost every corner of the sector. Her career has taken her across adult and children’s services, giving her a wonderfully broad perspective and a strong belief that great care always starts with truly understanding people.

Jayne has worked across nursing and residential care, brain injury hospitals and rehabilitation, physical disability, dementia, learning disabilities, autism, children’s homes, and housing with care and support. This wide-ranging experience means she understands the challenges services face — and how to support teams to deliver safe, compassionate and high-quality care in even the most complex settings.

Throughout her career, Jayne has held senior leadership roles including Regional Manager, Quality Advisor, Quality Manager, and Head of Quality & Improvement. Alongside this, she has also worked in Human Resources, supported by a Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resources Management, giving her a strong people-focused approach to leadership and team development.

As Regional Manager for the South and Central region, Jayne is known for her calm, supportive style, her eye for quality, and her ability to balance high standards with kindness and realism. She is passionate about helping teams feel confident, supported and proud of the care they provide.

Outside of work, Jayne loves being out on the South Downs, walking dogs through The Cinnamon Trust, and giving back as a listening volunteer — a role she has held for an incredible 35 years. She also plays basketball with a local ladies’ team, is rarely without her Kindle, and is well known among friends for her love of arts and crafts… especially her impressive collection of gonks!