Meet our team

The heartbeat of Hannah’s House

Our Hannah’s House team is comprised of registered nurses, support workers, administration staff and board members. We empower each other to continually develop our skills, knowledge, and motivation.

Our team members come from diverse professional backgrounds and personal experiences, each with a shared purpose: to provide care, comfort and joy to children with life-limiting or complex conditions. 

Our Board

Anne’s background is in Banking, IT and Telecommunications Health across several jurisdictions including UK, Europe, USA and Australasia. Since coming to Australia in 2007, Anne’s passion for human services, focusing on innovation, people and capability is what took Anne into the Health sector.  Anne’s career spans community health aged care and disability, Private Health Insurance and tertiary health, Anne has held executive roles in Silver Chain Group, a large community health and aged care services provider, Medibank, one of Australia’s largest Private health Insurers, and Healthscope the second largest private hospital group in Australia.

Anne is passionate about innovation, growth and the power of connecting and collaboration, and how the right partnerships can transform policy and service provision to support and nourish the changing needs and expectations of the community and the health system in Australia. Her personal attention is on equality of access to effective healthcare for all and ensuring strong advocacy for society’s most vulnerable.

Anne’s focus is on connecting the components in the health system to ensure the right care for the right person happens in the right setting. This involves access for all to good quality healthcare be that in hospitals, hospices, in the home or community settings. Bringing these all together to support the patient journey is critical for the affordability and connectedness of the whole health experience for the funder and the patient and their family.

Anne is deeply committed to designing and facilitating ways to make it easier for Hannah’s House children and their families to access the care and support they need at the various points in their respective journeys; in their home, in a hospital, or hospice setting when that time comes. Recognising the child’s ‘journey’ outside of hospital and hospice is oftentimes longer and more complex, Anne is determined that Hannah’s House will be that one point of continuity, comfort, support and respite for the whole journey

Susan is a Registered Nurse of over 27 years’ experience and has significant health management experience, having held a range of clinical, managerial and senior leadership positions within public and not for profit hospitals and community care settings in WA and Queensland. Susan holds a Master of Business Administration majoring in Human Resources and a Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Catholic Culture. She is also a Fellow of Leadership WA (2008) and holds an Adjunct Associate Professor appointment with the University of Notre Dame, School of Nursing and Midwifery. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Susan is currently CEO, SJG Social Outreach which forms part of St John of God Health Care, one of the largest not for profit healthcare and community services operators in Australia. St John of God Social Outreach provides a range of community mental health, homelessness and support and capacity development services across Victoria, Western Australia, New South Wales, as well as internationally in Timor Leste. Prior to this she has held Director of Nursing roles in several hospitals and worked in a national workforce strategy role supporting a number of major projects related workforce change and redesign.

Susan has extensive experience in clinical and corporate governance both within the health and community care setting. She is passionate about ensuring patients and their families receive safe and high quality care working in strong partnership and collaboration with those who we serve.

Sandra is a HR professional with over 25 years working in Human Resources. Sandra joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1988 and worked in various HR roles over 12 years. After leaving the RAAF, Sandra joined CRS Australia, where she led the Recruitment Team until 2007 when she was appointed as the first HR Manager at InfoHRM, a HR consulting firm. In 2011, Sandra joined Pitcher Partners Brisbane to set up their HR practice and upon return home to Perth in 2014, Sandra transferred to Pitcher Partners Perth. Her strength is in establishing HR best practice processes and procedures in small to medium sized businesses.

Sandra’s passion is to make a difference in the community. Sandra was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2013 Australia Day Honours List for her volunteer work with Radio Lollipop. She is currently an active volunteer with Camp Quality WA, was appointed to the Board of Trustees for WA Charity Direct in July 2020 and in August 2022 joined the Board of Hannah’s House.

Romola has extensive experience in finance, accounting, and leadership through her work in the resources industry, small business, public service, and media. She has a Bachelor of Business (Management and Accounting) and is a Fellow of CPA Australia.

Romola enjoys working with people who have diverse skills and backgrounds and believes we can achieve more together than individually. Supporting the work of Hannah’s House dedicated staff and volunteers in providing care for children and support for their families is especially important to her.

She brings the board an ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders and provides strategic business support to ensure Hannah’s House achieves its vision.

Amanda joined the Board in 2018 and brings significant expertise and strong commitment to Hannah’s House Vision. With a degree in Financial Services, she is an associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and a fellow of Leadership WA. She is Chief Operating Officer at Baptistcare WA which is a not-for-profit organisation providing aged care services responsible for Residential Aged Care, Retirement Living and Home Care Services, Amanda is also Chief Executive of Aurum Catering Services providing catering services to Residential Aged Care together with catering functions. Previously the Chief Operating Officer at Bankwest.

Amanda has a wealth of experience working with senior executive teams on a number of critical activities including developing a risk and values based culture, running the HR function and supporting the organisation on their people agenda. Amanda brings to the Board her extensive experience across a number of domains including Operational leadership, Human Resource Management, Clinical Governance and Risk Management, Finance, Marketing and Communications and Information Technology.

Addy relocated to Perth from Melbourne in 2017 and joined the Board of Hannah’s House in 2018. Addy was previously involved with Very Special Kids in Melbourne for more than a decade, which included three years working in the Fundraising team. 

As Head of Commercial at the West Australian Football Commission, Addy leads all strategic commercial activities including developing new revenue opportunities through partnerships and broadcast agreements. 

Across previous roles at Cancer Council WA and Youth Focus, Addy has successfully led high-functioning multi-disciplinary teams to drive revenue growth across a diverse portfolio of fundraising streams. 

He is also a Board Director of Gymnastics WA, a Business Development Advisory Group Member of the International Children’s Palliative Care Network and a Board Fundraising Subcommittee Member of Maurice Zeffert Home. 

With over four decades of experience as a consumer advocate, Mitch has worked at local, state, national, and international levels to support the health and wellbeing of diverse communities. Mitch is currently a Consumer Advisor / Community Involvement Coordinator at Telethon Kids Institute, where he facilitates the inclusion of the community at every stage of the research journey, especially for the BEAT CF program, which aims to improve the outcomes for people living with cystic fibrosis.

Mitch also has extensive experience in strategy, advocacy, policy development, and special projects for various organisations, such as SENEC Australia, Cystic Fibrosis Australia, Cystic Fibrosis Worldwide, and the Consumers Health Forum. I have been a keynote speaker at events across the globe, sharing my insights and expertise on topics such as chronic disease self-management, primary health care, and the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. 

An accomplished and people-centric leader, Renee’s extensive career spans medical research, life sciences, natural resources, consulting, and technology. Renee’s professional journey is defined by a consistent passion for unlocking the potential of individuals and teams, making impactful contributions, and driving tangible outcomes.

Guided by strong values, Renee possesses the audacity to think big, providing people with pathways to achieve greatness, with a structure and expertise in R&D, innovation, commercialisation and product development. Renee’s leadership roles have traversed the spectrum, from listed organisations to not-for-profits, and from developing countries to global portfolios. This diverse experience has equipped Renee with valuable insights from the executive and investor viewpoint as well as the disruptor seeking to shift paradigms and make impact.

Leadership Team

Following an extensive search, Jonine joined Hannah’s House as our inaugural CEO in September 2020. Jonine has held management and senior executive roles across the health and community sector, including 7 years in her last role as State Manager WA and SA for the Stroke Foundation. She has overseen the implementation of many innovative community programs and clinical services, including mental health, suicide prevention, chronic disease, disability, aged care and services to the Aboriginal community, homeless and other marginalised populations. Jonine’s various roles have provided her with considerable experience in advocacy, leadership, strategy, not-for-profit governance and government contracting both at the State and Commonwealth level.

Jonine says she has been inspired by the work that Hannah’s House does to enhance the quality of life for children with life-limiting conditions and the much-needed support that it provides to their loved ones. “It is clear that everyone involved is driven with passion for its purpose and committed to the delivery of high-quality services and care to its children and families.”

Contact Jonine via jonine.collins@hannahshouse.org.au

Aoife is a Registered Nurse with almost 20 years’ experience. She has held multiple clinical, and senior leadership positions in the not-for-profit and community services sectors in both Ireland and Australia. Aoife held a nurse teaching position at one of the lead universities in Dublin and holds a Master of Science in Disability Nursing Practice. She is a Fellow of Leadership WA (2019) and is passionate about safeguarding children and vulnerable people.

Lauren is an experienced Marketer and Fundraiser with a proven track record in both the corporate and not-for-profit sectors. She has been responsible for establishing and growing marketing and fundraising programs for national charities and marketing agencies based across Australia.

Lauren is passionate about donor and fundraiser experience and this is evident in her dedication to ensuring our supporters experience the same profound appreciation from us as we do from them.

Lauren is particularly thrilled to be working at Hannah’s House as she is passionate about supporting children’s charities.

With over 20 years of human resources experience, Sheree’s areas of expertise include talent acquisition, employee engagement, policy and procedure and staff performance management.

Sheree commenced her HR career in the UK where she worked for multi-national organisations, assisting with the implementation of recruitment and HR systems and on-boarding teams of professionals to manage the processes internally.  After relocating back to Perth and taking some time out to start a family, Sheree has gone on to continue working in a HR capacity, including within the not-for-profit sector.

Sheree is committed to aligning the work of the People & Culture team to shape and deliver organisational strategy and business operations.

WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOUR CHILD AND FAMILY. ​

Call us on (08) 6319 2850 or send us an email.