Nursing and Management Team
Nikki May - Chief Executive
Nikki brings over 30 years of industry experience, with 20 years of leadership experience across healthcare, training, and education services. Having held senior healthcare leadership roles for the past decade, she has successfully led teams and organisations through improvement, transformation, and growth. Nikki is passionate about improving people's health and wellbeing, ensuring high-quality, person-centred care, and creating positive outcomes for residents, families, and colleagues.
Vendula Wayne - Matron
Vendula qualified as a Registered Nurse in 2005. Since that time, she has developed a broad range of skills and experience across different healthcare settings including working in a range of care homes and hospital units. Vendula joined St Luke's Hospital as Deputy Matron in 2014 and was promoted to the position of Matron in 2017. Throughout her nursing career, she has continued her professional development; Vendula was awarded a Diploma in Leadership for Health & Social Care in 2017.
Karl Hohenauer - Finance Manager & Company Secretary
Karl studied Accounting and Finance Ba (hons) at Brighton University and went on to work at Mencap as a Finance Officer. His path took him into Logistics working for a division of Gate Gourmet. This is where he qualified as an ACCA Accountant. His analytical and commercial focus have been balanced by his technical accounting experience as an Associate Controller at Nielsen. Since then, he has worked in Software, and High-Tech engineering, handling the entire Finance Function for his region. His Continuous search to better his knowledge and become more efficient is now being put to use in St.Luke's Finance function.
Josh Peake - Facilities/SHEF Manager
Josh Peake is responsible for ensuring that St Luke's remains a safe, clean and welcoming place for residents, families, visitors and staff. Drawing on extensive experience gained in the British Army, Josh brings a disciplined, organised and detail-focused approach to managing the our facilities, estates and health and safety functions. Josh is passionate about creating environments that allow people to thrive, recognising that well-maintained buildings, and high standards of cleanliness are vital to delivering outstanding care. As a Chartered Manager and current degree-level NEBOSH student, Josh is committed to continuous improvement and to maintaining the highest standards of safety, compliance and operational excellence across St Luke's.