Meet The Chichester Team

Andrew Demetriou

Managing Director

Andrew has gained extensive working knowledge and experience within the domiciliary care sector over many years, since starting with Caremark Worthing & Adur in 2010. Andrew has successfully established and developed a further two more offices; Caremark Chichester and Caremark Arun.

He has developed a deep sense of passion and respect for the nature of the business and the individuals that it helps to support. He cares deeply for both the welfare of all Caremark customers as well as staff, without whom, of course, there would be no Caremark.

Together with all Caremark staff, Andrew attributes the growth and success of all the businesses to this sense and spirit of responsibility.

Ellie Chapman

Registered Care Manager

Ellie has worked in the care sector for 31 years she started her journey in care in a care home serving breakfasts before school, worked in various care homes doing mainly night work until Ellie was 24, then branched into working with people with learning disabilities.

Ellie worked for a private company for 14 years, who had at the time 2 homes supporting people with learning disabilities.

They then branched out and built a purpose-built unit and a day centre supporting people with severe challenging behaviour and learning disabilities, Ellie started as a day activity co-ordinator until she worked her way up succeeding in various roles to become day centre manager.

Ellie was approached to support in other homes in the country, working closely with managers to teach staff to work in a person-centred way. At this point Ellie became the inclusion lead for the company. Ellie has gained many qualifications and has an extensive knowledge in person centred care and inclusion.

Ellie started to work for Caremark Worthing and Adur in 2014 after being made redundant. Ellie started as a care coordinator and worked her way up to deputy manager where she deputised for the manager for a year while she was taking maternity leave.

In 2018 Ellie offered a position to be the Registered care manager of Caremark Chichester. Ellie strives to deliver person centred care to all customers always putting them at the centre of everything she does. Ellie has an amazing team and is proud to be the manager of Caremark Chichester.

Joanna Meachem

Deputy Care Manager

Joanna started working as a care assistant when she was 18 years old. During this time, she has worked in domiciliary care and care homes, but her main passion is domiciliary care. Joanna loves being able to keep people in their own homes and remain as independent as they physically can be. Joanna started as a field care supervisor at Caremark Chichester in 2017 and quickly came into the office as a Care Coordinator. In November 2020, Joanna became a Deputy Manager.

Samantha Lenton

Care Coordinator

Sam has worked for Caremark Chichester since 2017 and started as a care assistant. This was Sam’s first job in the care sector. Sam then joined the office team as part time care coordinator in 2019 and became full time 2020. Sam always goes above and beyond for our customers, supporting them to resolve day to day issues and ensuring all their wellbeing needs are met.

Lauren Demetriou

Recruitment Manager

Lauren has always supported Andrew in the Caremark venture, however actively joined the business in 2013 on a part-time basis supporting the Caremark Worthing & Adur office with admin duties and recruitment. This gradually progressed to a full-time recruitment role. She is now Recruitment Manager for the 3 offices and oversees the recruitment process for the on-boarding of all new staff. A confident people-person with good organisational skills, she thoroughly enjoys this role and being able to advocate for the industry as well as the businesses. She also became franchisee in 2019 and is incredibly proud to be a part of the growth and development of all 3 offices.