Meet our team
Director of Nursing. Gireesh Nair qualified as a Nurse in 2002. He has been working in care of older adults since 2005 and has worked at all levels; staff nurse, CNM, ADON and Director of Nursing since 2018. Gireesh holds a qualification in nursing management and strives to ensure that person centred care is delivered to residents at all stages of the care delivery process. Gireesh actively engages in continuous professional development and has recently completed a course through the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.
Clinical Nurse Manager, The role of Clinical Nurse Manager is to support and assist the Director of Care in the management and care of Residents on a daily basis. This role involves supporting the nurses and healthcare assistants in assessing, planning, evaluating and organizing care for Residents by monitoring the safety and quality of care and services provided.
Staff Nurses – Our Registered Nurses are responsible for providing person-centred care to each of our Residents as recognized by their individual needs and wishes and developing individualized care plans, which highlight how these needs are to be met. Our Registered Nurses are responsible for monitoring the well-being of our Residents and supervise the health care assistants offering guidance when needed.
Healthcare Manager and Healthcare Assistants – Our HealthCare Manager gives support to our Healthcare assistants enabling them to provide personal and social care to Residents according to their assessed needs.
Activities Co-Ordinator Our Activities Co-ordinator delivers a high standard of social care to our Residents through the provision of a weekly activities program which includes one on one as well as group activities. These activities are designed following consultation with our Residents at their meetings where suggestions and ideas are proposed. The activity and social programme aims to provide a wide variety of activities which are fun for our residents to enjoy.
Our Catering team consists of Catering Manager, Chefs and Catering Assistants who design the food menu’s with input from the Residents and Dietician. The Catering Manager holds responsibility for implementing our health and safety policy related to food hygiene and maintains quality assurance by seeking feedback from Residents and Relatives. In this way we can improve the quality of our service.
We also have Household, Laundry, Maintenance and Admin staff all of whom play a vital role in the smooth running of our Nursing Home and without whom Beechtree would not be what it is.