Our Staff
Andrea Edwards
Practice Manager/Finance Officer
Cert IV Financial Services
Andrea has worked within the Workers Compensation and Vocational Rehabilitation sector for 9 years and in finance for more than 20 years.
After working in a number of bookkeeping jobs, Andrea settled into medical Practice Management in 2010, and completed her Cert IV in Financial services.
She has extensive knowledge of the day to day running of a medical centre. She opened Highland Medical Centre with her business partner Jacky.
Jacky Kennedy
Corporate Services Manager
Diploma in Practice Management (UK)
Jacky relocated to Perth in 2011 from Edinburgh, where she worked as a Practice Manager from May 2000. She has much experience in Healthcare Management and was an Assessor in Practice Accreditation, where she worked with the Royal College of General Practitioners (UK) for many years.
Jacky has recently become an Assessor here in Australia with AGPAL.
Prior to taking up her post at Highland Medical Centre, Jacky worked at the Glen Street Practice in West Leederville for 4 years. She opened Highland Medical Centre with her business partner Andrea.
Dawn
Registered Practice Nurse
Diploma of Nursing (Wales)
Dawn completed her Registered Nurse Training in 1998 in Wales, UK. She spent 9 years working in a hospital setting in the area of Acute Medicine, Care of the Elderly and an Acute Stroke Unit. She then moved into a specialised role of Stroke Nurse. She undertook the role of mentoring student nurses and support for newly qualified nurses.
Dawn and her family moved to WA in 2007, where she worked in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Neurology department for the next 2 years.
Dawn then moved into a Practice Nurse role within a primary care setting in 2009. She brought the many skills she has developed over her career to Highland Medical Centre in 2017.
Caley
Registered Practice Nurse
Caley graduated as a registered Nurse from Edith Cowan University in 2017. She started working in General Practice in the same year. She came to work with us at Highland Medical Centre in January 2020.
Caley is passionate about providing continuity of care throughout the patient journey here at the practice.
She enjoys working in the treatment room environment being supported by the GPs. She is the Practice Covid 19 Champion and keeps us all well informed about any Covid 19 changes in regulations and guidelines.
When not working at the Highland Medical Centre she enjoys spending time with her family and puppies.
Jill
Registered Practice Nurse
Jill graduated from Napier University Edinburgh in 2006 and has worked as a registered nurse across different specialities since, before joining private practice at Highland Medical in 2022.
Jill is passionate about The Lighter Way programme & enjoys supporting the patients through their weight loss journey.
When she isn’t working Jill enjoys camping, hiking & spending time with her family.