Lorna Bellamy RN

Parish Nurse

Lorna qualified as a registered Nurse in 1993. She has 16 years hospital nursing experience and 14 years community nursing experience. Working Hours:  Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, 9.00am – 4.00pm (unless stated differently on mobile phone)
lorna@waltonpn.org.uk     Tel: 07969 901001

Lorna’s role includes:

• Receiving referrals, identifies needs and serves the local community.
• Seeing clients in their own homes, at the PN office, at the pop-up shop health drop-in and at the Collimer Court health drop-in or in support groups.
• Being a health educator giving advice on healthy lifestyle changes.
• Doing blood pressure checks and liaising with the GP surgeries regarding these.
• Giving support during illness and following hospital discharge, helping prevent hospital readmission if possible.
• Filling in the gaps that the NHS and other agencies do not have time to fill. Lorna has time to explain medication and treatment.
• Introducing clients to community events and groups, so improving their social well being.
• Referring to other agencies if appropriate.
• Distributing food and knitted blankets, shawls and fiddle muffs to those in need in Walton.
• Taking home communion to the sick and house bound. Praying with clients and their families if requested.
• Providing and organising transport to medical appointments.
• Being an advocate during medical appointments if needed.
• Training, supervising and supporting a team of volunteers who help with visiting individual clients in their homes, transporting to medical appointments and helping with WPN events.
• Co-ordinating the ‘sole mates’ service (click here for more details)

Lesley Bradshaw RMN

Mental Health Nurse

Lesley qualified as a Mental Health Nurse in 2010. She has worked since qualifying in a mental health inpatient unit, working initially in the community for 18 months and then working on an adult acute ward, going to the older persons unit, working alongside those with dementia and those with a ‘functional’ illness, i.e. depression and anxiety, and then finally working in an adult psychiatric inpatient unit.

Lesley’s role… to assist you and Lorna, my colleague with your mental health issues in a fully wholistic way, including emotionally, physically and spiritually. My role as I see is to be a supportive and informative one helping you understand yours or your relative’s mental health issues whether it is dementia based, anxiety and depression, psychosis or schizophrenia. I will listen and help you understand or explore what you are feeling at that time or try and answer the questions you have. I will help you develop plans for your recovery back to where you were before becoming unwell or to a place where you feel comfortable with your mental health. If you have contact with secondary health care services or primary services and need help, then I can, with your permission, speak on your behalf and be your advocate during this time. Your voice is there to be heard when you have mental health problems. As my colleague Lorna says, we can give you time to explain and listen.

I am able to see clients in their home surroundings and believe that seeing a person there can give a lot of information and helps them relax more, establishing a relationship of help. I also run, along with volunteers, the twice monthly group No Labels, at Seaton Road Methodist Church, attending and help at the pop-up shop at The Hub in Felixstowe when Lorna is not available to go.

Lesley’s working hours are Tuesday and Thursday 8.30am to 4.30pm. She can be contacted on 07909 888703 or lesley@waltonpn.org.uk.