Commencing on 1 July 2023, the Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire Community Directorates will merge to form the new Community Mental Health Directorate. This will sit alongside the Acute Services and Urgent Care Directorate and the Primary Care Directorate.
- Rachael Bloor – Head of Nursing & Professional Practice
- Matt Johnson – Head of Psychology
- Sarah Mountford – Head of Allied Health Professionals
The management for the structure is:
Community Directorate
Clinical Director – Darren Carr
Deputy Clinical Director – Becky Chubb
Deputy Clinical Director – James Boardman
Associate Director – Josey Gaitley
- Deb Hargreaves – Senior Service Manager
- Gavin Hicks – Additional Complexity Service Line Service Manager
- Lee Mason – Children and Young People Service Line Service Manager
- John Roberts – Adult Mental Health Service Line Service Manager
- Darryl Gwinnett – Older Adults Service Line Service Manager
- Brigette Hamlett – Neurodiverse and Ageless Service Line Service Manager
- Sue Wood – Quality Improvement Lead Nurse
Specialist Care Directorate
Associate Director – Michael Ford
Clinical Director – Rachel Bullock
Clinical Director – Gill Cooke
Deputy Clinical Director – Michael Foster
- Laura Sillito – Senior Service Manager, Neuro and Rehab
- Simon Kent – Senior Service Manager
- Lisa Nagington – Quality Improvement Lead Nurse (Matron)
- Tina Mottram – Quality Improvement Lead Nurse (Matron)
- Sharon Parke – Service Manager – LD and CAMHS IP
- Tracey Stevenson – Service Manager, Substance Misuse
- Claire Barley – Service Manager, Complex Care
- Sonia Goodwin – Service Manager, Transforming Care Partnership
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Glynis Harford – Service Manager, Darwin Centre
Acute Services and Urgent Care Directorate
Clinical Director – Natalie Larvin
Associate Director – Donna Cantrell
- Debbie Beardmore – Quality Improvement Lead Nurse
- Melanie McNair – Matron for Older Persons Inpatient Services
- Joanne Wills– Service Manager for Crisis Care Service Line
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Dawn Burston – Matron for Adults of Working Age Inpatient Services
Primary Care Directorate
Clinical Director, Primary Care – Fatima Elgizawy
Associate Director – Kim Stanyer
- Siobain O’Neill – Clinical Lead, Primary Care
- Emma Jones – Service Manager
- Charlotte Shevlin – Service Manager
- Stephanie Woodall – Clinical Lead, Talking Therapies Stoke
- Jason McDonald – Operations Lead Talking Therapies North Staffordshire
In creating our locality structure, our aims are to…
- Bring together all age community services by geography
- Provide better services to our local communities
- Bring together all ‘Specialist Services’ (wider than North Staffs catchment)
- Improve and bring together ‘Urgent Care’ pathways
- Create a Primary Care directorate to support developments between the Trust and Primary Care
- Develop a robust and integrated professional structure
- Strengthen Clinical Leadership at a pathway level
Our guiding principles and direction of travel
Accepting system accountability for performance and improvement by integrating services at locality level with all other out of hospital, public and third sector organisations.
Ensuring that transformation enables change at scale and delivers improved outcomes and demonstrable returns on investment.