Welcome to Team JW
The JW Team stood outside our office at the Normanby Gateway office suites based in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire on the site of one of the original steelwork plants, Normanby Park Steel Works, which operated from 1912 to its closure in 1982. The area is now full of office suites, warehousing and light industry and we are very fortunate to have the corner office with a 180 degree view of the surrounding grounds and wildlife that comes to visit us from deer to a recent breeding family of Oyster Catchers.
Our very own Martyn started his working life at this steel works as a Metallurgical Trainee in 1974, working not far away from the current car park. Martyn’s memory of his first day at work, shortly after passing his O ’Levels, being taken up onto the blast furnace cast house floor, being asked to follow a colleague by hopping over the open channels of molten and volcanic lava equivalent known as slag. Quite a heart thumping experience for your first day at work! 🥵 He now much prefers the serene environment of attending to his Linked-in colleagues sat at his desk in our corner office, looking out at all the wildlife.
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The JW Medical Management Team – Skills, Knowledge and Experience
We were going to talk about our skills, knowledge and how many years experience our Management Team has in Accounting, Financial, Health and Information Technology Services but it made us sound like . . . really old, so lets just say we have a fantastic Management Team that has oodles of experience in all the main factors of the services that we are bringing to you to help you and your Practice thrive.
You and your patients
You and your patients are the most important thing to us . . . .
JW Medical Management Core Values
We believe that any company operating in this modern era has a responsibility for all of its actions and activities. We believe strongly that we must consider and monitor our interactions with our Staff, you the Client, our Suppliers & Regulators and the Environment around us to try and leave as positive an impact as we possibly can. To which we have set ourselves a list of Core Values that we look to adhere to.
Staff Welfare
Our staff are our greatest asset and we believe strongly that as a company we must invest in them, provide a happy and safe place to work and ensure that they have a voice and an opportunity to express themselves and their ideas at every opportunity.
We truly believe that a happy workforce leads to a successful company and excellent customer relations.
Every business has its own DNA. It’s what they do with that DNA that makes the difference
We feel that Core values are the guiding principles and beliefs that drive a company’s culture and reflect the mission at large. When defined accurately and with acute intention, we believe core values can help companies grow and evolve without losing touch with what matters at its core.
Lysaght's Steelworks
Normanby Park Steel Works
The last of the steelworks to open in the area was that of John Lysaght which started production in 1912. It was the only works to be built in Scunthorpe as a fully integrated Iron & Steel Works. The Lysaght’s works was always known as such even after it changed ownership and became the Normanby Park works.
John Lysaght (left) was born in County Cork, Ireland in 1832 and was educated in Bristol, England. It was whilst at Bristol that he formed a friendship with a family who had developed a relatively novel process of hot-dip zincing to the production of galvanised buckets. A well-to-do member of the family who had no aptitude for business gave the firm to Lysaght as a free gift and so the firm that was to become so well known in Scunthorpe was born.
Before the year 1857 was through, the Orb trademark became well known around the world. During the early years of the 20th Century, the firm was looking to build a new works. W.R. Lysaght investigated many districts, but his final choice was the Lincolnshire ironstone area of Scunthorpe. It was felt the area offered plentiful supplies of open-faced and cheaply won iron ore and was also in close proximity to the Yorkshire coalmines. Working leases were agreed with Sir Berkeley Sheffield, the local landowner, and construction of the iron and steel plant began in 1910. The name preserved a link to the past with Normanby Park being a former seat of John Sheffield, 3rd Earl of Mulgrave, a personal favourite of Queen Anne, who created him Duke of Buckingham and Normanby in 1703.
The iron and steel plant was erected on the advice of John Darby of Brymbo. It consisted of three blast-furnaces with 11-foot hearths, a battery of 152 coking ovens, four 45-ton steel furnaces a 400-ton mixer, twelve 28-ton soaking pits taking 2-ton ingots and rolling mills designed for an annual output of 100,000 ton of sheet bar.
During the First World War Lysaght’s provided steel to Foster and Co of Lincoln, this was to build their ‘Water tanks for Mesopotamia.’ This was the code name given to the project to build the new war machines – the Dreadnought Tank.
JW Medical’s corner office in the Normanby Gateway office suites.
Part of the site of the former Normanby Park steelworks. North Lincolnshire Council cleaned up the Blue Lagoon area to create this three-hectare balancing pond. The pond receives surface water run-off from the adjacent industrial estate. The work involved draining the former steelworks lagoons and the removal of steelworks waste to the nearby Conesby quarry landfill site. The completed pond has been landscaped with footpaths to create an amenity area.
As part of the Normanby Enterprise Park scheme, the council has removed three million cubic metres of steelworks waste to landfill and built 1,700 metres of road, four roundabouts and provided sewer, gas, water and electricity supply to the new developments.
