St Nectan's Residential Care Home

For me, care is both a commitment and a privilege that calls for empathy, compassion, and patience in equal measure. Care is about making a positive difference, whether through a reassuring smile, comforting words in moments of sadness, empowering residents to make choices, or simply recognising and honouring each person for who they are.

Often, it is the smallest gestures that hold the greatest meaning, such as listening to a story as though it is being told for the first time, showing an interest in someone’s past, offering reassurance and support in difficult moments, encouraging confidence and independence, or creating opportunities for meaningful activity that brightens someone’s day. These everyday acts of kindness and compassion are at the heart of everything I do, and I feel privileged to be entrusted with such an important role. My aim is to always ensure that residents feel happy, respected, and truly at home.

In recognising the weight of the decision that families face when choosing a home for a loved one, including the enormity of the responsibility, I hope to provide families with reassurance and peace of mind, knowing that their loved ones are safe, treated with dignity and supported to live life to the fullest.

Care is more than just a job for me; it’s a true calling. I am deeply committed to making a real difference in people’s lives by creating a safe, welcoming environment where they truly feel at home. This calling gives meaning and purpose to my work every single day. I am naturally drawn to this career because it allows me to serve others with genuine kindness and understanding. Helping people in this way brings fulfilment, knowing I provide support, comfort, and compassion to those who need it most. Care is not simply work—it’s a way to make a positive impact.

Suki is our Commercial Director and co-owner of St Nectans.
Suki aims to deliver the best possible, high-quality care & support for our residents, to make a real difference every day in their lives.
We have a fabulous team of CareGivers who are dedicated to ensuring that our residents can live safely and happily in our home, with the dignity and respect that they deserve. We offer a premium service through a combination of recruiting, rewarding and retaining great staff, providing comprehensive training, and being sure to match our CareGivers to residents' interests and personalities.
Our CareGivers will be personally introduced to you, and you will be assigned 2 key CareGivers. You, your family and your friends can relax knowing that you are in safe hands.
If you, or a loved one, requires residential care or needs respite or companionship or any care or support, please get in touch with our friendly team. We’re here to help and would love to hear from you.

Our lovely Doreen has worked at St Nectans for 17 years. Doreen has worked in catering for nearly 22 years and has qualifications in Catering Level 3 in Food Safety & Level 3 in Health & Hygiene. When a resident moves into St Nectans, Doreen works with them to identify their favourite foods so that the kitchen team can cater for these. Doreen takes pride in her work and really enjoys making cakes for afternoon tea and special occasion cakes. Doreen says the meals that the residents have are not only nutritionally good for them but also made with love and care.
Doreen has a passion for providing our residents with very nice healthy & nutritious meals. As well as individual choices Doreen is experienced in delivering diets which are unique to a particular culture, race or religion, this includes Halal, Kosher, Vegetarian, Vegan, Lactose intolerance & meals for those with dysphagia. Doreen is a much-loved member of the St Nectans team who also fills the kitchen with her large, jolly personality.

Anneliese has been involved in the care industry for around twenty years and joined St Nectans in August 2011 having always loved this kind of environment. A day in the life of Anneliese consists of cooking up a storm, laughing and singing with the residents, a fact which led to him being fondly dubbed 'the singing girl!
Anneliese loves getting to know our new residents, finding out what they like to eat and incorporating that into her menus.
In her spare time, Anneliese is a creative person and he enjoys photography, dancing, singing and painting.

Summer is as lovely as a nice summer breeze for our residents in St Nectans. Summer's delighted to have been recently appointed for this important role, in delivering a varied, stimulating and educational programme for our residents. Summer likes to think outside the box and ongoing feedback from our residents enables her talent to deliver, along with our dedicated team of amazing volunteers. Summer brings to the role her experience of managing teams, Interior Design, Floristry, Art, and Teaching new things - be it arts and crafts painting or quizzes!!! and she even played table games with the residents! Summer gets inspired by talking to our residents and finding out what they enjoy and what makes them smile, whether that's an entertainer, Tai Chi, Music Therapy, Camera or Theatre Club or 1-to-1 person-centred activities. 110% is put into everything we do here.