Katherine Burgess | Tessa Gough Associates

Quantum Reports (Care, Aids and Equipment)

Loss of Service Reports

Brain Injuries (Traumatic and Acquired)

Amputation

Birthing Injury

Learning Difficulties

Neurodiversity

Neurological

Burns

Adult and Paediatrics

Intensive Care

Domiciliary Care

Orthopaedic and Limb Injury

6 years' experience as the Manager and Registered Owner of Cura Homecare-Chippenham, a domiciliary care company.
5 years' experience as a Children’s Community Nurse at Sirona Care & Health Community Interest Company specialising in providing support to children with life-threatening and life-limiting conditions within the home.
3 years' experience as a Children’s Community Nurse at Wiltshire Health and Care providing care in the community for children receiving CHC packages.
1 year of experience in High Dependency and Intensive Care for Burns and Head Injuries at Frenchay Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust.
6 years general medical, orthopaedic and high dependency in the Children’s Unit at Southampton General Hospital.

I have had a varied nursing career to date enjoying both acute and community based nursing. The opportunity to start a care company from scratch and develop it into an award winning care provider in the South West and providing high quality care to clients was a challenging yet rewarding chapter and led to great professional development in the care industry and business management.

Outside of work I volunteer for a children’s charity called Dreamflight. I have a nursing and lead role in our regional team supporting a team of medical and non medical volunteers to provide care and support with a wide scope of medical conditions and disabilities to have the holiday of a lifetime, away from parents, in the theme parks of Orlando, Florida.

Over the last few years I have welcomed a little girl into my life via early permanence adoption. A complex and emotional process that has required immense reliance and uncertainty that for use has had a positive experience but also gave me first hand experience of trusting of the safeguarding and legal process to make the challenging decisions involved with early permanence and adoption.