Laven Matavire

When did you start working for Gray Healthcare?

July 2024

Your role:

Laven is a Registered Mental Health Nurse at Gray Healthcare. She collaborates with our Multi-Disciplinary Team and is responsible for conducting assessments and reviews, monitoring and auditing medication, performing risk assessments, and overseeing the clinical care plans of the people we support.  Her role also involves visiting the people we support to provide advice and clinical support.

Laven holds a BSc (hons) in Mental Health Nursing from Birmingham City University, a Higher National Certificate in Speech and Language Therapy from the University of Manchester, and a Higher National Diploma in Social Care from the University of Wolverhampton.

Before joining Gray Healthcare:

Laven has always been passionate about making a positive impact on others’s lives.  After high school, she emigrated to the UK and attended college in Birmingham, where she completed a first access course in health and social care.  She then earned a Higher National Diploma in Combined Studies in Social Care from the University of Wolverhampton.   Laven has experience working as a support worker in learning disability and mental health services.  Inspired by her work and personal experiences, she pursued a degree in Mental Health Nursing at Birmingham City University.  Upon qualification,  her first role was as a Mental Health Nurse supporting deaf adults.  She later worked on a neuropsychiatry rehabilitation ward before joining an agency to achieve a better work home balance.  As a agency nurse, Laven gained experience in various settings including forensic services, Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICU) and acute mental health services for both males and females.   She also spent several years working on an acute mental health ward at her local NHS hospital.  Seeking a career change,  she applied for a role with Gray Healthcare.

What do you like about working at Gray Healthcare?

‘I was drawn to Gray Healthcare because of their mission to transition individuals from hospital settings to their own homes while still providing necessary clinical support. I was moved by the opportunity to help people live more independently and achieve their potential outside of institutional settings. I am excited to be able to work with individuals who have moved from hospital care and am looking forward to supporting them in their home environments.’

Gray Healthcare in three words:

‘Supportive, empowering, inspiring’