Executive Directors

I am a nurse by background and have a passion for improvement and transformation.   

In my previous role as Chief Executive of Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, a mental health and learning disability provider, I spearheaded an inclusive and patient-centred approach and oversaw improvements in quality across the Trust.

I was also formerly Chief Executive at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust, a provider of mental health, primary care, social care, learning disability and substance misuse services where the Trust was rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC under my leadership.

I am committed to working with our staff and patients to design and deliver high quality services for the communities of Norfolk and Suffolk.

Portfolio

• Communications and Engagement

I joined the Trust after nine years in executive roles in the Norfolk and Waveney health and care system. Since 2019, I was Chief Nurse for Norfolk and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group.   

I trained as an Adult Registered Nurse in Cardiff. I worked in several clinical specialities before moving to Suffolk in 2005.  I worked in Ipswich Hospital in various roles. Then I moved to the Norfolk and Waveney system in 2013. 

I have a passion for solution-based improvements in patient and staff experience. I led the commissioning of services for people with learning disabilities and autistic people. I also led on the quality oversight of those services.   

I have led on many areas of the COVID-19 pandemic response across Norfolk and Waveney.  

I am proud to work for the NHS and delighted to have joined NSFT.  I look forward to supporting the Trust on our improvement journey. 

Portfolio

• Deputising for Chief Executive
• Health Inequalities
• Service user, carer and family
• Co-production
• Partnership working
• Recovery College

 

 

I joined the Trust in September 2024 and was previously Chief Medical Officer at Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust, rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission. I am a multi-professional clinical leader, with a wide portfolio of experience in leadership roles over the past 10 years, including executive leadership, system leadership and operations. 

Portfolio

• Medical workforce and leadership
• Research and Development
• Innovation
• Pharmacy
• Mental Health Law
• Model of Care
• Clinical strategy
• Medical education
• Caldicott Guardian
• Mortality
• Clinical transformation

I have been with the NHS for 43 years, most recently as chief nurse and chief operating officer at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.

I retired from the Trust in March 2023 and joined the North East Ambulance Service in May 2023 as a non-executive director.

I have been working with NSFT to improve services after the Learning from Deaths report in 2024.

I've been honoured with the Chief Nursing Officer for England Gold Medal award back in 2021 and have also received an MBE for services to mental health and learning disabilities in the NHS.

 I joined the Trust in April 2024 as Interim Chief Nurse from Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust I am a registered general nurse and registered mental health nurse.

 

I have previously worked at executive director level across clinical, managerial, commissioning and regulatory roles in mental health and social care systems, in both the UK and in the United States.

 

I am passionate about the human rights of people in mental health and learning disability services, with a focus on safe high quality services, good clinical governance and advocacy.  

Portfolio

• Quality
• Safeguarding
• Patient experience
• Customer Services
• Nursing, Allied Health Professional, Social work and Psychology leadership
• Infection prevention and control
• Health and safety

I have worked in organisational development and Human Resources (HR) roles in the NHS for 25 years. With my most recent role as the Executive Director of Workforce and Communications at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. 

I will be focussed on supporting the development of our culture. One of our four strategic priorities is to improve our culture which I will be leading on, alongside the executive team. 

Portfolio

• Human Resources
• Organisational Development
• Education and Development

I joined the Trust having previously held the role of Director of Commissioning Finance at the NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board. I have worked in the NHS for more than 14 years, including holding Deputy Chief Finance Officer roles at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Norfolk Community Health and Care. I've experienced mental health issues through his family connections.

Portfolio

• Finance
• Estates and Facilities
• Information and communication technology (ICT) (including Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO))
• Business intelligence
• Procurement

I joined the Trust in December 2024 as Chief Transformation Officer.

I was previously Director of Safety, Security, Resilience and Trust Innovation at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.

I have vast experience of the delivery of large and complex transformation programmes within the NHS and the wider healthcare system.

I am an advocate for compassionate and collective leadership, as well as for the implementation of consistent evidence-based and/or best practice. I believe in solutions that have a strategic, external focus and a culture of Service User, family, carer and staff engagement at the heart of everything I do.

Portfolio

• Trust transformation programme