Julie Monk, Chief Executive

Julie is responsible for the overall management of Hospice at Home West Cumbria and its performance in terms of service provision, financial and corporate viability. This includes ensuring that the hospice meets all its statutory and service obligations. She is responsible for all day-to-day management decisions and for implementing the hospices long and short term plans.

Julie has a background in public and charity sectors including public health, housing and environmental health. She has spent the last 20 years of her career in Cumbria, including a role as Deputy Chief Executive at Impact Housing Association. She has experience of regulation, governance, performance and innovation. Julie has a real commitment to developing services and people and a strong range of project management skills to achieve high performing, customer driven activities.

Julie has a Master of Law degree and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health and Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health. In her spare time she enjoys cooking, travelling and fitness.


Lorraine Dixon, Director of Clinical Services

Lorraine’s role at Hospice at Home West Cumbria is to provide strong clinical leadership and management for all clinical services, ensuring that the care received is equitable, professional and of an excellent standard. The role significantly contributes to the overall senior leadership of the organisation and being an active ambassador for the charity.

Lorraine joined Hospice at Home West Cumbria in 2015, following a 30 year nursing career with the NHS. Her nursing journey has taken her along a varied and rewarding career path and included caring and supporting patients and families in the areas of acute medicine, palliative and coronary care, rheumatology, continuing health care, community liaison, rehabilitation and specialist palliative care.  

 


Hayley McKay, Director of Funding and Communications

Hayley joined Hospice at Home West Cumbria in January 2018 and leads the Marketing and Income Generation Team who are responsible for raising our profile and raising the funds required to ensure Hospice at Home West Cumbria can develop and continue to deliver our services. Hayley also leads the Finance Team who provide a comprehensive and supportive finance and administrative service both internally and externally to ensure that the financial management of the charity meets all statutory requirements.

After graduating from Leeds Metropolitan University with a BA(Hons) in Public Relations, Hayley went on to teach English in Japan.  This inspired her to work with young people and worked for a number of years developing young people’s projects which included full project management from initial ideas, building realistic budgets, securing funding and reporting back evidence based results.

Working for a housing association, Hayley continued her project management role and then went on to manage their young people’s homelessness services and general needs housing which included tender submissions, management of statutory contracts, and achieving top scores of an accreditation process.  Throughout her career, Hayley has built a track record of delivering income and expenditure budgets on target, and developing effective internal and external partnerships.

In her spare time Hayley enjoys live music, taking off in the campervan and long walks with her dogs.