About Us - Early Start Team

  • Management
    • Hildegard Grant - Reg. Comp Nurse, ADN, Reg. SW, MANZASW
      General Manager
      Contact Hildegard
    • Jan Egan - RN, Plunket Cert, BN, MCNA(NZ)
      Clinical Manager
      Contact Jan

  • Clinical Team-Clinical Supervisors
    • Heather Davidson - RN, GradDipNursing (Palliative Care)
    • Michelle Fagan - Dip. SW, Registered Social Worker, MANZASW
    • Margaret Coberger - RN


  • Clinical Team - Family Support Workers/Whanau Awhina
    Early Start employs between 17-20 fulltime Family Support Workers/Whanau Awhina. All the clinical staff at Early Start have professional qualifications with backgrounds in either nursing, social work, early childhood education, teaching or other related fields.

  • Administration
    • Shirley Percasky
    • Shirley Phillips / Lucy Gregory