{"id":353311,"date":"2025-11-14T06:31:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/?page_id=353311"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:19:08","slug":"meet-kerry-whittingham","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/about-us\/our-team-of-experts\/meet-kerry-whittingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Kerry Whittingham"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"landing-banner hero-banner responsive-banner-block_0354b7b2f6e7839c40b9958d584e6c9a image-focal-point-right\"\n\t\t style=\"--hh-banner-overlay: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(0,0,0,0.3) 0%, rgba(0,0,0,0) 60%);--hh-mobile-banner-overlay: linear-gradient(rgba(0,0,0,0.3), rgba(0,0,0,0.3));\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"d-flex flex-column gap-lg-2xl gap-l col-xl-6 col-lg-8 justify-content-center py-lg-11xl py-4xl align-items-lg-start align-items-center min-h\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"d-flex flex-column gap-lg-2xl gap-l align-items-lg-start align-items-center\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"d-flex flex-column gap-lg-s gap-s align-items-lg-start align-items-center\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"m-0 text-shadow-hard gap-lg-xl gap-l d-flex flex-column align-items-lg-start align-items-center text-lg-start text-center\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"fw-semibold text-white text-9xlarge\" style=\"line-height: 1.2;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMeet Kerry Whittingham\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"fw-semibold text-white text-3xlarge\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRegional Clinical Lead, East\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<img width=\"1920\" height=\"729\" src=\"https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/visiting-care_2560x972_5.webp\" class=\"hero-lcp-image\" alt=\"Meet Kerry Whittingham\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 968px, (min-width: 992px) 968px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/visiting-care_2560x972_5.webp 2560w, https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/visiting-care_2560x972_5-300x114.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/visiting-care_2560x972_5-1024x389.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/visiting-care_2560x972_5-768x292.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/visiting-care_2560x972_5-1536x583.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/visiting-care_2560x972_5-2048x778.webp 2048w\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<section class=\"container my-md-11xl my-2xl\">\n    <div class=\"row flex-row gap-lg-11xl gap-m\">\n        \n        <div class=\"col-lg-7 col-12\">\n                <div class=\"d-flex flex-column gap-lg-l gap-m\">\n\n    \n        <!-- Column 1: Text -->\n                    <h2 class=\"text-purple fw-bold text-start text-4xlarge m-0\">About Me<\/h2>\n        \n        \n    \n                    <div class=\"acf-wysiwyg-reset text-start\"><p>Hi there! I\u2019m Kerry and I am the regional clinical lead nurse for the East of England. I joined Helping Hands in June 2021, absolutely love my job and plan to stay for as long as the company wants me! The role itself involves supporting our live-in and <a href=\"\/visiting-care\/\">visiting care services<\/a> with training the carers and producing our customers\u2019 individual person-centred support plans. It can sometimes involve a lot of driving, but I absolutely love driving too!<\/p>\n<p>I have worked in many settings as a nurse since qualifying and as the future of nursing changes, with the aim to keep patients in their own homes for as long as possible, I was inspired to work for Helping Hands. Their values are strong and always upheld, whilst delivering high-quality <a href=\"\/home-care-services\/\">care at home<\/a> \u2013 so I feel as if it is the perfect place for me to be.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"is-hh-subtitle\">Career Pathway<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I began my career in care in 2010 as a support worker for adults with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. In this role I really found my passion for care and knew I wanted to take it further. I completed NVQ\u2019s in Health and Social Care, Leadership and Equality and Diversity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n        \n        \n        \n        \n        \n        \n\n        \n    <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n                    <!-- Column 2: Media -->\n            <div class=\"col-lg-5 col-12\">\n\n                                    <div class=\"w-100 h-100 position-relative overflow-hidden rounded-4 hh-defer-wrap\">\n                        \t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kerry-Whittingham_square.webp\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kerry-Whittingham_square.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kerry-Whittingham_square-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kerry-Whittingham_square-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kerry-Whittingham_square-768x768.webp 768w\"\n\t\t\t\t\tsizes=\"100vw\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"A woman with long dark hair and light eyes is standing in front of a white door, wearing a light pink top and looking directly at the camera with a slight smile.\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"img-fluid w-100 rounded-4\"\n\t\t\t\tloading=\"eager\"\n\t\t\t\tdecoding=\"async\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t                        <div class=\"hh-skeleton rounded-4\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                                \n            <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n            <div class=\"row mt-lg-l mt-m\">\n            <div class=\"col-12 acf-wysiwyg-reset\">\n                <p>After completing a degree in Adult Nursing at Nottingham University, I began nursing on an Acute Surgical Ward, caring for some of the most acutely unwell patients who had all different types of complex surgery including <a href=\"\/home-care-services\/condition-led-care\/bariatric-care\/\">bariatric gastric band surgery<\/a>. It was here where I worked with the most articulate senior nurses who took compliance and documentation standards very seriously and of course, I followed suit and really developed my confidence in my ability to work to the highest of standards.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"is-hh-subtitle\">Qualifications and Professional Development<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I worked in a variety of roles, beginning with a role as a <a href=\"\/nursing-care\/\">clinical nurse<\/a> educator for patients with multiple sclerosis, within the same company I then went on to be a nurse advisor for patients on biologic therapies across England and Wales for a variety of conditions including multiple sclerosis, severe complex migraines and brittle asthma.<\/p>\n<p>From here, before joining Helping Hands, I went to work in another pharmaceutical company as a nurse advisor covering my own dedicated region, which was the East of England. Within this role, I was responsible for supporting patients on biologic therapy for ankylosing spondylitis, plaque psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    \n    <section class=\"container my-md-11xl my-2xl justify-content-start align-items-start\">\n        <div class=\"row\">\n            <div class=\"col-12 d-flex flex-column flex-wrap justify-content-start align-items-start gap-md-4xl gap-m\">\n                \n                                    <div class=\"fw-medium text-3xlarge text-purple-dark m-none\">\n                        Expert Links:                    <\/div>\n                                <div class=\"d-flex flex-wrap gap-s\">\n                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kerry-whittingham-725124195\/\"\n           class=\"btn text-nowrap btn-tertiary btn-md text-medium\"\n           target=\"_blank\"\n            style=\"gap:4px;\" 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