The registered persons carrying on the business at the Home are Mr Geoffrey Morphitis and the registered manager Mrs Susan Harrison, who is the person in day to day control of the Home's operations. The management's qualifications and experience are;
Susan is an experienced Registered General Nurse, with a sincere empathy for the elderly. Susan studied nursing from the age of sixteen, attending a Pre-Nursing course at Cannock College and as a Cadet Nurse at Stafford General Infirmary. She became a Student Nurse and attained her State Registration in 1977. By the time she was twenty three years old, she was a Ward Sister with Mid Staffordshire Health Authority.
After the birth of her first child Susan worked in the private and community health care sector, thus affording her more flexible working hours.
On 7 November 1989, Susan was appointed Deputy Matron at Hawksyard Priory. She later became Matron and introduced new standards of care and many new innovative ideas. She gained her Registered Managers Qualification in 2004 and continues to study to improve herself and to keep up to date with all relevant legislation.
Susan holds NVQ teaching qualifications and continually strives to educate and mentor her staff. She is an active participant in the Care Home Service Improvement Programme for Palliative Care (Gold Standard Framework).
He later left to join Cape & Dalgleish and became a partner in 1979 spending the next 15 years in professional practice as a chartered accountant. In July 1994, following the merger with Cape & Dalgleish, he became a partner in Grant Thornton. Geoffrey’s main areas of expertise were in corporate recovery and corporate finance gaining particular expertise in the management buy-out sector, concentrating in the areas of healthcare and financial services.
In 1999 Geoffrey retired as a full time equity partner at Grant Thornton and took up a number of non-executive directorships. In particular, he arranged the funding and corporate structure which resulted in the acquisition of Hawksyard Priory Nursing Home by it's present owners in October 2001.