Nikki Leaney

Home Manager Nikki, knew from a young age that she wanted to be a nurse as she has a severely brain damaged brother whom she loved to be around, helping her mother care for him.

Nikki became Registered Manager at Alderwood in 2014, bringing with her an extraordinary depth of experience built over more than 43 years in nursing and care. Having begun her career in acute medicine and intensive care before spending nearly 29 years in care home leadership, including a Deputy Manager role and Care Home Manager position from 2000, Nikki arrived at Alderwood with a wealth of clinical knowledge, leadership expertise, and an unshakeable passion for delivering outstanding care.

Under her leadership, Alderwood achieved an Outstanding rating from the CQC in 2018, a standard proudly maintained to this day, as well as the Gold Standards Framework accreditation for end-of-life care with commendation. Nikki's ethos is simple, putting residents at the heart of everything Alderwood does, and wherever possible, making long-held dreams and wishes come true. She finds all the reward she needs in knowing that each day, she and her team make a real and tangible difference, and takes particular joy in seeing families remain friends of Alderwood long after they have lost a loved one.

Nikki is a proud mother to two grown-up daughters and grandmother to three wonderful grandchildren. She lives in a charming thatched cottage in the countryside and loves gardening, art and design, and live music, with a particular love of soul and country. An adventurer at heart, her earlier years saw her skydiving, paragliding and climbing Snowdon twice, a spirit of boldness that still very much defines her approach to life an