Our team are amazing, they are patient, they are passionate, kind and caring. They are superheroes. Our team is the cream of the crop. Why is that you may ask.
It's because they are part of the Bluebird Care Edinburgh team. We offer premium quality home care and with that comes premium trained Care Assistants and, in fact, Care Experts.
When you receive care from Bluebird Care Edinburgh, you are cared for by experts.
Meet our Directors
Jane Perry, Director
Jane Perry started her home care journey with her husband, John back in 2008 when she purchased Bluebird Care Edinburgh. She has since opened offices in Glasgow South and Ayrshire. Over the years, Jane has worked tirelessly to ensure she has a good team around her with the same passion for delivering high-quality, person-centric home care. She got involved in the care sector when she was looking for home care for her grandmother in Glasgow back in 2008, she was appalled at the lack of knowledge, services, and general attitude of the companies she contacted. This set off a ‘light bulb’ moment. After extensive research, she chose Bluebird Care as they shared her ethos of providing a good old-fashioned service along with the ongoing support required to get her business up and running. With Jane’s strong leadership together with her management team, she ensures that the interests and well-being of all customers and her team are met. Working with multidisciplinary teams and integrating with other leaders in the Social Care sector, Jane is as driven now as she ever was, to deliver the best, home care service possible. Outside of work, Jane loves listening to music, good food and wine, spending time with her family and let’s not forget taking her dog (and best friend), Robbie for a walk on the beach.
John Perry, Director
John has worked in customer-facing roles for over 30 years as a Territory Manager with Tennent’s and other account management roles and is acutely aware of the importance of good customer service. With John’s experience, you’ll normally find that he’s the first point of contact when someone is looking for care for themselves or a loved one. He is friendly, knowledgeable, and passionate about providing a quality customer service experience. He always takes the time to understand the customer’s needs, ensuring they have all the information required to make an informed decision about who cares for either themselves or a loved one. Outside of work, John loves spending time with his family. He has 2 boys; Nick and Adam along with 2 granddaughters; Eva and Alyssa. He’s a long-suffering Hibs fan and a very competitive 8-handicap golfer. You’ll also find him listening to 70s & 80’s soul music.
Meet our Care Team
Annemarie Frew, Registered Manger
Annemarie was inspired by social care at the age of fifteen, she travelled to Romania to help street children, orphanages, and university students. This passion has spiralled throughout her career, helping her to achieve HNC in health and social care, SVQ 3, SVQ Social Service and Health Care Level 9 and finally SVQ in care service Leadership and Management Level 10. She has worked in a range of different sectors and settings from young children through to the elderly. Jane and John Perry inspired her to join the team with their compassion, ethos, dedication, and proven track record of delivering high-quality care at home service. Annemarie is Registered Manager for our Ayrshire & Glasgow South and has a passion for ensuring her teams keep to high compliance rates, always making sure they deliver high-quality, person-centric home care. In her spare time, you will find her spending time with her family, especially her children and dogs. Some other favourites are reading, watching films and going to the theatre.
Jennifer Gilmour, Care Supervisor
Jennifer joined the care sector during COVID-19 when she was looking for a new challenge. She joined our team as a Care Assistant and received nothing but positive reviews of how amazing she was with our customers. She then moved into our Recruiter position to help us hire more amazing people Care Experts. She has since developed her career even further and is now a supervisor, ensuring our team members are onboarded and supported, carrying out customer assessments and ensuring they get the highest quality care. Jennifer loves being able to get out into the community and see first-hand how she is making a difference. In her free time, you’ll find her with her horses or dogs. When she’s not looking after them, she’s in the gym looking after her own health.
Amanda McBlain, Care Coordinator
Amanda started her journey in care over 8 years ago starting as a Care Assistant and she is now our Coordinator. While she takes ownership of Ayrshire & Glasgow South, she often spends time helping with our Edinburgh office. She loves working in the sector as every day is different and being able to help people remain in their own homes surrounded by their home comforts is always extremely rewarding. In her own time, you'll find her spending time with family and her 3 dogs or she'll have her head buried in a book.
Meet our Support Team
Natalie Alexander, Mindfulness and Wellness Specialist
Natalie Alexander has over 20 years’ experience in delivering all things Wellness. She holds Diplomas in Understanding Mental Health, Menopause Awareness and Wellness, Life Coaching, Reiki Master, Meditation and Relaxation, hosts Wellness retreats in Athens, Greece and has written a 21-day Anxiety programme, an award-winning 7 -week Energy program, delivered many workshops to businesses and individual clients and is an author.
Maria Lisi, Business Support
Maria has over 30 years’ experience in running several retail businesses and 20 years in property management. Whilst not specific to the home care sector, she has a wealth of experience to help support our 3 offices to remain high in quality and fully compliant with a little bit of fun. Interesting fact: whilst she’s lived in Scotland since 1978, she’s fluent in Italian. In her spare time, you’ll find her walking her dog Toby, cooking up a storm in the kitchen and spending time with her family & friends.
John MacDonald, Learning & Development Manager
John has worked in the care sector for over 18 years; he has worked in private, residential and care at home. His journey started as a support worker with ILS where he progressed to senior carer. He completed his SVQ level 3 and then moved to Hansel alliance where he worked with young adults with complex care needs. During his time here, he progressed to coordinator and later the manual handling trainer. After that he moved on to be a personal assistant for a young man that was none verbal with complex autism, but he missed the training side, so he moved to Carewatch where he was training manager for 6 years. He enjoys training because he feels he can give people the best knowledge and understanding to provide high-quality care. Learning from his experiences, he likes to have a laugh during training to ensure that it keeps fun to allow people to retain more. In his spare time, he likes to play pool, clay pigeon shooting, and he does dabble in buying and selling antiques and collectables.
Robbie, Chief Happiness Officer
Robbie is our Chief Happiness Officer. He's a Labrador and Deerhound cross and lives with our directors; Jane and John. His key tasks are to spread cheer through our offices. Whilst our Care Assistants make sure our customers smile, Robbie is responsible for making our team smile. He’s not exactly on the payroll, but you will find him around the office looking for treats and scratches.
