Mandy Cunningham has been appointed as the hospice's new head of clinical services and patient care.
She has previously worked at leading North West cancer hospitals, The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre on the Wirral and The Christie in Manchester.
Mandy, who lives on the Wirral with her husband Chris, always had an ambition to work in nursing, starting out as a community bath nurse in Chester, before moving on to become an auxiliary nurse and then starting her formal nurse training at the University of Chester.
Palliative care
She said: "I enjoyed palliative care in the community so I knew I wanted to specialise in oncology. During my time at Clatterbridge I was a chemotherapy nurse and became a ward manager before I moved over to Christie to be matron of acute oncology.