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HomeCare NZ, part of Care Group Limited, is a leading provider of home based care and support services. Our focus is on providing a broad range of services to clients with disabilities, illness, injury or broad age related needs. HomeCare NZ ensures a premium home based support service is delivered to New Zealanders in need.
Dr Craig Marshall – Independent Advisor
Craig Marshall, a graduate of Otago University Medical School, has been involved in the health sector in New Zealand for over 20 years. Craig holds a number of directorships and was the CEO of White Cross Healthcare group for many years.
Craig’s medical background, not only as a practitioner but also as an administrator and company director means he brings an important skill set to HomeCare NZ. Craig is passionate about providing leading edge health services and believes that the care of people in their own homes will become an increasingly popular choice for both individuals and government organisations over time. Craig believes that HomeCare NZ is well positioned to lead the growth in this area of the New Zealand health sector.
Warren Barclay – Managing Director
Warren Barclay has held many senior management positions with organisations such as DHL International, NZ Historic Places Trust, UDC Finance, Interpack Worldwide and AMP.
In 1999 he helped to set up, part-owned and managed a very successful new venture company, Capital Events Limited, a specialist event management organisation. After five years of growth, an exit was orchestrated through the independent trade sale of the business.
From March 2004 he was Managing Director of Lions Hospitality 2005 Limited, a company formed to manage the corporate hospitality and event programme around the 2005 British & Irish Lions rugby tour to New Zealand. He was responsible for negotiating and delivering the commercial return on the NZ Rugby Union’s license agreement, generating revenues in excess of $20m from the project and delivering the event to more than 46,000 corporate clients from New Zealand and overseas.
Warren manages the HomeCare NZ business and works closely with his staff to ensure a professional delivery of home based care and support services to the New Zealand market. His success to date has been based largely on his passion to deliver the best service possible in order to not only meet client expectations, but to exceed them.
Warren has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Canterbury.
Jurka Vuletic – Client Care Manager
Jurka (pronounced Yolka) has an extensive background in the health sector in New Zealand. Her most recent role was as a Service Coordinator and Needs Assessor with Taikura Trust, a private trust setup specifically to provide Needs Assessment and Service Coordination (NASC) services in Auckland and which is contracted by the Ministry of Health to support individuals with a disability.
Jurka meets with clients (and their families) to discuss their specific needs, assesses the best way to provide support to the client in their own home and develops a detailed care plan specific to that client. Based on location and needs, as well as the personality of the client, Jurka then matches an appropriate caregiver with the client. This is a skilled process and Jurka has the perfect experience to undertake this role with empathy and professionalism.
Jurka holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Human Services) degree from the University of Auckland.
Wendy Wilson – Administration and Accounts
Wendy Wilson is the Administration and Accounts Manager for HomeCare NZ.
Wendy has extensive experience in accounts and administration, gained within accounting firms and with multi-national organisations both in New Zealand and in the UK.
Wendy is responsible for all client invoicing, payroll and administration duties within the organisation, as well as managing the overall accounting process for HomeCare NZ.
Kirsty Barclay – Manager
Kirsty has set up and run her own businesses as well as consulted and contracted to a number of other start-up entities to assist with their business needs.
Kirsty has held numerous system based roles with major corporate organisations, her last before setting up her own business was with the National Bank of New Zealand. She was responsible for implementing computer based accounting systems directly into clients businesses and this involved a large amount of interface with clients.
She has particular skills with administration, compliance and accounting and systems and brings all these skills to HomeCare NZ. Kirsty is familiar with all aspects of the HomeCare NZ business and assists the staff with the day to day running of HomeCare NZ.
Catherine Robinson - Client Care Coordinator
Catherine started as our Client Care Coordinator in August 2008 working directly with Jurka to assist her in managing the client and caregiver workload. This involves assistance with the selection and appointment of appropriate caregivers, assessment of client needs, negotiation of client contracts, rostering of caregivers and ongoing monitoring of the service provided to the clients from HomeCare NZ and its contracted caregivers. She also helps with all office and administrative tasks such as rosters, contracts, client and caregiver files, quality standards, enquiry management and follow ups.
Catherine has worked for an Auckland based law firm for six and a half years as a legal executive.
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