A winner of a beauty industry award the latest recruit to join the expanding team at a clinic.

Jill Butler brings a wealth of experience to Carlisle’s VL Aesthetics, having performed more than 30,000 safe aesthetic procedures during her 22 years in the industry.

She will be working alongside Dr Abs, Dr Rosie and Susan and be performing the following procedures at VL Aesthetics: sculptra; dermal fillers; botox; fat-dissolving; PDO thread lifts; mesotherapy; and profhilo.

Jill qualified as a nurse in 1981 at South Tyneside Hospital where she worked for many years.

She has been a full-time cosmetic injector since 2003, since training in aesthetic procedures at The Royal College of London and at some of the most prestigious training companies on London’s Harley Street.

She was a trainer for Sanofi Aventis in the use of sculptra and for Cloverleaf Medical in the use of evolence, porcine collagen and bio alcamid.

For more than 10 years she has worked as a cosmetic injector for the most established plastic surgery company in the UK.

In September 2018 Jill was awarded the acclaimed Aesthetic Clinician of the Year title at the North East Beauty Awards.

Jill is also an experienced speaker at aesthetic conferences in the UK, Paris and Spain.

She said: “I’m so thrilled to join the award-winning team at VL and to bring my 22 years of aesthetic injecting experience and my passion for natural aesthetic enhancement to Carlisle.”

Managing director Vanessa Brown said: “It is great to add such a highly experienced, highly qualified aesthetic nurse to the ever growing VL medical team.

“Jill has over 20 years’ experience, has performed thousands of safe treatments and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the team.

“At VL Aesthetics we always strive to partner with the best the industry has to offer and Jill’s experience certainly lives up to that.”