Peter Rogers – Owner
Peter has owned The Hollies for over 30 years, previously working in the National Health Service gaining qualifications in General Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing and Management. He left the NHS to become director of nursing for a PLC company based in Brighton before leaving to open his first care home in Dartford in 1986 with Helen Rogers, The Hollies was purchased in 1988 and Peter has grown it successfully from 8 bedrooms to its current level of 40 beds.
Helen Rogers – Owner
Like Peter, Helen trained in the National Health Service qualifying as an enrolled nurse in 1985, she briefly had a spell in the Royal Airforce before moving to Brighton and taking up a post as a district nurse. On purchase of their first care home in Dartford with Peter, she moved and was instrumental in helping to set up the home and organising all levels of care. During her time of helping Peter develop The Hollies she has also raised to sons.
Lauren Freeman – Finance and Operations Director
Lauren has worked at the Hollies since 2013, she brings a degree in payroll and business management along with several accounting qualifications. Lauren works alongside Peter and Helen to ensure the business meets all its legal requirements with regards to finance and the business function as it continues to grow and succeed. She is HR support to all staff and an admin contact to all our visitors and relatives.
Howell Lasco – Registered Manager
A trained physiotherapist and experienced registered manager, Howell brings to The Hollie’s a wealth of experience. He is always there to answer and queries or concerns you may have and is a hands on registered manager always there to assist the staff when needed.
Joanna Bennett – Deputy Manager
Jo has an extensive background in healthcare and safeguarding. She supports Howell and managers the service in his absence. Jo is a dedicated deputy manager and always on hand to be a team member as well as part of the senior management.
Our Senior Team
We are lucky enough to be supported by some amazing Team Leaders, Sally, Kay, Teresa and Angela on our day team and Jackie and Lorraine on our night team – they lead a team of seniors and carers who have been selected to work at The Hollies based on their experience and knowledge. They are given extensive training to ensure that they are fully compliant with all practises and very able to support Howell & Jo in ensuring an extremely high standard of care is always delivered to our clients.
We pride ourselves on recruiting passionate and dedicated staff and strive to help them achieve their potential, giving them job satisfaction and ensuring our clients are well looked after. We understand that the best care is achieved by a continuous commitment to our staff, and therefore offer a wide variety of training to ensure they are always developing new skills and keeping up to date with mandatory training requirements.
All new staff are supported through our induction programme which is completed over their first few weeks and all staff will be trained and hold the relevant experience or qualifications needed for their position.
All our staff have the opportunity for further qualifications such as NVQ’s whether they are carers, domestics, catering or maintenance. All staff, regardless of position, complete mandatory training covering Fire, Health & Safety, Manual Handling. Control of infection, First Aid and other specialist subjects such as Dementia awareness, End of Life care and many more. We also have 15 fire marshall trained staff who have completed extensive further training in fire safety and prevention.
We have a committed domestic and maintenance team who are in daily to ensure our home remains looking and feeling clean and presentable.
We strive on maintaining a happy working environment and staff are aware that they can always come to any member of the senior management team with any concerns, work related or personal. We are proud that we do not use agency staff and have a low staff turnover, giving our residents a consistency of care.