Vesna
Vesna has joined us in People and Culture. She is a Wodonga local who speaks fluent Serbian. She can also dabble at Russian, Ukranian and Czech.
Vesna has a lot of experience with recruitment and in particular placing nurses in facilities across the North East.
She is always in the loop as to what’s good to watch on Netflix!
Lucy
Lucy has been our administration trainee for 2022. She would love to visit New Zealand. Next year she is going to study environmental science at uni. Lucy would like to be reincarnated as a shark!
She is also a very typical Capricorn!
Samara Azzopardi
Samara recently joined our Activities team and is having a wonderful time getting to know everyone.
Samara has two great loves in life – shopping and holidays in Italy!
Her favourite colour is green and she is really talented at keeping indoor plants alive!
Linda Davis
Linda has one grandchild and is super excited for her second grandchild due very soon!
She loves cats (could she be a crazy cat lady?) and loves spending time with her family.
Her favourite food is lasagne and she would love to visit Paris one day!
Zoe van der Weyde
She is one of our new administration trainees who will be with us for the next two years.
Zoe adopted a cat after Christmas – her name is CeCe.
Zoe’s favourite colour is purple and she most desperately wants to visit Fiji and Hawaii on holiday.
Todd Alston
Would love to go to space!
Visited Canada which he loves – God’s country!
The best thing he can cook is smoked ribs
Yes, he burns the toast a lot!!!
Peter Ward
Hotel Services Manager, became a chef because he like cooking wanted to be an architect, most proud of having two great kids! The destination he loved to visit is Mauritius.
Farewell Angela McInnes
After 10 years of loving life in the hot Australian sun, we bid farewell to our Director of Care and Clinical Service, Angela McInnes. Angela’s passion for providing quality care for those living with Dementia helped Westmont create our Cottages. The Cottages model of care, allowing residents to live in a ‘home’ lifestyle is one of her greatest achievements.
Ishani Jagoda
We are happy to introduce you to Ishani Jagoda.
Ishani is from Sri Lanka and moved to Australia in 2018 after she met her husband.
Ishani has always enjoyed working with the elderly. She hopes to train as an RN in the next few years.
Ishani loves to cook and always has a smile on her face.
Leah Harry
Our staff are grateful for all that she does every week. Leah has been with Westmont for 12 years.
Her favourite part of her job is talking to all our residents and hearing their amazing life stories.
Thank you Leah!
Nabina Adhikari
Nabina joined Westmont early this year as an RN. Nabina and her husband migrated to Australia from Nepal. She grew up in a town near Pokhara which is in the centre of Nepal and is the gateway to the Annapurna trekking circuit which is very popular. Nabina’s favourite food is a Nepalese dumpling!
In Nabina’s culture multiple generations of family live together in one household. She helped care for her grandparents and enjoys taking care of our residents..
Thank you Nabin
Cheryl
Cheryl has worked at Westmont for 14 years. Her favourite movie at this time of the year is Home Alone!
She decided to study leisure and lifestyle because she thought she would enjoy it (and she is amazing at it!).
Her favourite country to visit is Greece! Cheryl loves anything to do with art, theatre, music, books and food – a true thespian in the making!
Kristy Emmins
Working as a Scheduler in Community and also in People and Culture.
Her biggest dream is to move to Brisbane and travel the world.
Favourite ice cream flavour is chocolate.
Her spirit animal is a dog! She loves going to her family farm on the weekend!
Esme Fogarty
Esme works as a Food Service Attendant with Westmont homestead and has been with us for two years!
Her likes are – Chocolate; Camping and Travel; Music (She LOVES listening to music)
Her dislikes are – Worms and Snails (she can’t even stand seeing them on TV!); People who litter
Terri Cameron
Terri works as a care manager with our Community Care Team. She has recently taken on this role as a promotion as she had worked for the past two and a half years providing domestic assistance to our home care clients.
Terri has a passion for working with our younger HACC clients and coordinating a regular social group at the Willows.
Terri’s interests outside of work include spending time with her family and 4-wheel driving in the high country.
Christi Lamotte
Christi has been with Westmont for a whopping 15 years and has worked in the laundry since it opened in 2008. She loves seeing all the residents in their freshly washed and pressed clothes by the team in the laundry.
Christie loves going shopping and catching up with friends for coffee and cake on the weekends, along with taking care of her first grandchild Izzy. Her favourite colour is burgundy, and she loves plodding in her garden and re-arranging her plants.