Moira Blake

Retirement of Moira Blake

Moira Blake, hotel services catering assistant at Kirklands Headquarters, Bothwell retired in August after 18 years’ service. Moira worked for the hotel services catering department at Kirklands Headquarters since joining NHS Lanarkshire.  She had varied roles, including working in the main kitchen, dining room, Kylepark assessment kitchen and latterly Kirklands coffee shop where she remained […]

Jean Donaldson

Retirement of Jean Donaldson

Friends and colleagues gathered to pay a fond farewell to Jean Donaldson, associate nurse director, South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership, who retired in August after a remarkable 40 years’ service. Jean trained as a nurse in Lanarkshire and, after qualifying in 1982, took up her first staff nurse post at University Hospital Monklands. […]

Ann Hill

Retirement of Ann Hill

Colleagues paid a fond farewell to payroll officer Ann Hill who retired in June after 30 years’ service. Ann, who was based at Kirklands Headquarters, Bothwell, joined NHS Lanarkshire in February 1989 when she took up employment at Strathclyde Hospital, Motherwell. In June 2005, Ann moved to University Hospital Monklands before transferring to Kirklands Headquarters […]

Project Search graduates

Project Search welcomes new intake

Monday 26 August saw the new intake of 24 students begin their journey on the 2019/20 programme Project Search, marking the project’s ten-year anniversary. Project Search is a partnership involving NHS Lanarkshire, North and South Lanarkshire Council, New College Lanarkshire, ISS and Serco and offers young students with additional support needs a work-focused college course […]

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Could you be a foster parent?

Foster carers come from all walks of life and a wide range of ages and domestic settings. National statistics show that the majority of foster carers come from either caring or blue light professions and deeper research has shown that this is because teachers, nurses, doctors, police and prison officers are on the frontline. They […]