Mrs. Audrey Hinchcliffe, Prseident, JEF

After graduating from Excelsior High School, she pursued her professional career as a Registered Nurse. After migrating to the U.S.A. in 1967, she worked in a variety of nursing positions and attended college, earning a B.A. in Community Health at St. Francis College, New York, followed shortly by a M.Sc. in Health Administration and 27 earned credits towards a MBA at Long Island University.

In the USA, she worked as Director of Nursing Services and Assistant Administrator at the Flatbush General Hospital and as Deputy Director of Nursing at the Harlem Hospital, New York. She was recruited from New York to Jacksonville, Florida as Director of Nursing to the University Hospital and quickly promoted to Associated Executive Director, in charge of Patient Services.

In addition, to her nursing and hospital administration career, she held positions as Lecturer, Adjunct Professor and Preceptor in the Community Health Department, St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn and later as Lecturer in Health Administration, University of Florida. Her work in the USA earned her a number of accolades for community work and academic pursuits.

In 1982 Mrs. Hinchliffe left the USA for the CARICOM Secretariat, Guyana, where she held the position of Health Development Officer and later Officer in Charge of the Health Section. At CARICOM she was awarded a Commonwealth Fellowship, which took her to the University of York, U.K. where she obtained a Certificate in Health Economics.

She has traveled widely internationally serving on several high level delegations representing CARICOM and Commonwealth Secretariats and as Consultant on health matters to regional Governments and International Health Organisations.

Mrs. Hinchcliffe returned to Jamaica in 1987 and established Caribbean Health Management Consultants Limited and in 1990, Manpower and Maintenance Services Limited (MMS). MMS offers Commercial Cleaning, Portering, Ground and Landscaping Maintenance, Pest Control and Carpet Care Services, with over ninety (90) clients and over fourteen hundred (1400) workers islandwide. Manpower is listed among “Who Is Who in Commercial Cleaning” 2000-2001 by Building Service Contractors Association International.

Mrs. Hinchliffe is also the recipient of a number on commendations and awards among which are Nominee, Business Observer – Business Leader of the year 2001, Kiwanis Club of New Kingston in Celebration of Women – Award of Excellence.

In 2003. also under her leadership Manpower received the Mustard Seed Silver Award for support to its Jerusalem Home and Caribbean Food and Nutrition Awards for support for the Schools Nutrition Competition.

Manpower, in 2002, received the PSOJ Award for Job Creation, Certificate of Commendation from the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce for Best of the Chamber Award and also the Certificate of Appreciation received from the Association of Health Services Executives, of which Mrs. Hinchcliffe is a founding Member and first President. She was the Ernst & Young Caribbean Entrepreneur of the year 2003 - Services. She was also elected President of the Jamaica Employers Federation in July 2004.

Mrs. Hinchcliffe has been the Chairman of the Nursing Council of Jamaica since 1993, is a founding member of Women Business Owners (Jamaica) Limited, member at large Jamaica Association of Health Service Executives and founding member of the Association of Commercial Cleaning Contractors. She serves as a member of the UTECH Advisory Committee and formerly served as a Member of the National Health Insurance Steering Committee, Ministry of Health, and Member of the Management Review Team for May Pen Hospital.

Mrs. Hinchliffe is a mother of two (2) children, Garth Hinchliffe, General Manager at Manpower and Dr. Annette Hinchliffe-Moseley, a Pediatrician.