Meet Our Staff

I qualified in 1980 and have worked in several practices around the south west area, mainly in small animal clinics.  I joined Windmill in 2002 and have been Head Nurse here since 2006 for my sins!  I have two cats and a dog at home and have a keen interest in feline behaviour.  I qualified as a RAMA (Registered Animal Medicines Advisor) in 2008 and I am responsible for our pharmacy, dispensing and stock control.

I started veterinary nursing at the tender age of 16 and qualified in 1994.  I spent the next 17 years in a mixed practice in St.Albans as Head Nurse.  After relocating to Buckinghamshire,  I joined the windmill team in June 2012 and have enjoyed getting back to ‘proper nursing’.   

I have an interest in our native flora and fauna and in my spare time, I can be found pottering around my garden making a nature-friendly habitat.  I share my home with a husband, 2 teenagers, a cat called ‘Bean’ and 3 Guinea pigs.

I am originally from Australia, and grew up with a wide range of animals.  My family have shared their lives with animals of every size, from rats to horses and everything in-between.  I gained my Veterinary Nursing qualification in Australia in 2016.

When the opportunity came to move to the U.K.,  I knew it was a chance to carry on my professional development in a country with internationally recognised veterinary excellence.  I find immense satisfaction in providing the best care to our patients.

I share my home with a beautiful Labrador, a couple of humans and the cat who owns us.

I qualified as a Veterinary Nurse in 2004 at a practice in Aylesbury before leaving to locum at a practice in Bletchley.  I took a break from nursing to have my first child and joined the Windmill team in 2015 and haven’t looked back!     At home, I have three children, a dog, cat and five guinea pigs to keep me busy.

I started my nursing career in 1996 and qualified in 2006.   In previous practices I was a deputy head nurse for 10 years and a head nurse for 6 years.  I live with a large collection of weird and wonderful animals, snakes, lizards spiders, scorpions, micro squirrels, millipedes, giant African land snails, dragons, fish, tortoise, turtles hamster and a parrot.

I have an interest in Physiotherapy and will be starting a course in September to learn more about it and how to use it in practice.

I am a Clinical coach and a Clinical supervisor and have held these qualifications for 15 years.  These allow me to help train and mentor the next generation of veterinary nurses.

I enjoy all aspects of my job and every day is different.

It has always been my dream to be a veterinary nurse.  I joined the Windmill team in 2020 and completed all of my nurse training here.  I graduated from Middlesex University in 2022 gaining a BSc (Hons) in Veterinary Nursing and a C-SQP qualification.  At university, my elective module included companion animal behaviour and I completed my dissertation on noise phobias in companion canines.

At home, I live with one crazy rescue Border Collie and three equally crazy Collie cross’s, one of which I have competed agility with at international level.

I joined the practice in November 2022 and really enjoy my role.  You’ll find me caring for our inpatients, helping the nursing team and on reception with Client Care.  I’ve always had a love for animals and find my job very rewarding.

I have worked at Windmill since October 2001.  From a very young age, I always wanted to be a Veterinary Nurse and many years ago I worked at a practice in High Wycombe, starting with school holidays and weekends.  In those days, (yes it was a long time ago!) qualified nurses were not the norm and at the time I wanted to qualify, so left there after a great couple of years in readiness for college.  Unfortunately, I didn’t quite time it right for enrollment, and found myself in an office job, having gained Acounts, shorthand and typing qualifications from school. 

I have worked for an oil and gas pipeline company, Oral-B Laboratories as PA in the Marketing Department and at Forte Hotels Head Office in the Human Resources Department. In 2001, I join Windmill, following a visit with my Shetland Sheepdog.  I worked on the Reception team and helped out the nursing team, but after a couple of years, took on the responsibility of personnel within the practice.  I was promoted to Practice Manager in 2009 and gained my ILM Level 5 diploma in Leadership and Management in 2010 and my Certificate in Veterinary Practice Management (CVPM) in 2011 and went on to join the VMG Certification and Training Committee in respect of the CVPM examination. In 2015,  I passed my Advanced Driving Test.   I own three cats; a British Silver Shorthair, one BSH mix, a Bengal and two Belgium Shepherd Tervuren dogs.