Meet Our Team

Chris qualified as a social worker in 1996 and has worked within health and social care across the East Midlands for over 20 years, primarily specialising in mental health.

Prior to taking on this role, Chris worked for Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as Deputy Director of Operations leading on the delivery and transformation of both inpatient and community services across the county. Chris has achieved a high level of success in creating and transforming services that cross organisational boundaries and have generated investment.

Prior to working in Derbyshire, Chris worked for Lincolnshire Partnership Trust and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. His drive for excellence in care and continued reflection, learning and improvement stems from his clinical grounding and support to service users/patients and families over many years.

Chris is passionate about the delivery of safe, effective and high quality compassionate palliative care. He believes that key to this is innovation, clinical excellence and a workforce who feels valued and supported by their leadership team. He feels the current climate is a time of opportunity for hospice care in a rapidly changing health and social care environment.

Chris is married with three children and a Labrador; he enjoys running, golf and rambling with his dog.

Michelle qualified as a registered general nurse in 1986 from the Scunthorpe and Goole School of Nursing. Michelle worked at Scunthorpe General Hospital in both surgery and adult medicine for 10 years caring for patients that were end of life from both cancer and non-cancer diagnoses.

Michelle worked as a research nurse supporting patients with extensive heart failure, this supported Michelle’s decision to commence a degree with the Open University and complete a course in the care of the dying.

In 1999 Michelle commenced work at Lincoln County Hospital, caring for patients in adult medicine including those with renal failure. Michelle joined the hospital at night team as a night sister and developed her extended scope clinical skills to support patients and staff.

In 2001 Michelle decided to utilise her extensive experience and practical skills differently and was successful in gaining a training post with West Lincolnshire Primary Care Trust as a student nurse practitioner. Michelle undertook a degree in Autonomous Practice at the University of Hull and worked in the newly established Lincolnshire Out of Hours Service as a nurse practitioner and manager. The role took Michelle into patient’s homes and highlighted that care for end of life was often poorly organised. Michelle developed a simple system to support improved access for end of life patients during the out of hours period.

Michelle worked for Lincolnshire Community Health Services in senior clinical management roles and made a decision to join St Barnabas Lincolnshire Hospice in 2013.

Michelle worked as a General Manager for the South of the County and supported the operational management and development of both clinical and non-clinical services in the portfolio. Michelle supported many developments during her role as General Manager, including the redesign of the responsive needs tool, supporting transformational change within the family support services team and supporting the development of the Hospice in the Hospital including the development of the Units operational policy. Michelle established good links and excellent working relationships with the South West Clinical Commissioners.

In June 2015 Michelle was appointed to the role of Director of Patient Care to manage clinical services including the Inpatient Unit and the Palliative Care Co-ordination Centre. Michelle is the Registered Manager, Accountable Officer and responsible for infection control for the organisation.

Becky qualified as a registered nurse in 1997 and has worked in Lincolnshire all of her career, predominantly in primary and community care settings including walk in centres, out of hours services, sexual health, prison healthcare and latterly as an advanced nurse practitioner in general practice. She has a BSc (Hons) in Nursing, an LLM in Health Law and is a non-medical prescriber.

Since joining St Barnabas in 2022 she has seen and felt all of the organisations’ core values and the ethos of hospice care being displayed and reflected in the work that each and every volunteer, supporter and member of staff does. This commitment and dedication is both humbling and motivating to witness and drives all that she does in this role.

Within the organisation Becky is passionate about and committed to the quality of care that our patients and their families and carers receive from us, and about maintaining our outstanding CQC rating. Having worked in primary care and across Lincolnshire she knows that collaborative working with many other organisations and service providers is key to getting and delivering personalised care at the end of life.

Becky is married, has a sports mad daughter and enjoys playing tennis and the flute, harp and piano (badly) and walking her dog and reading.

Georgina has worked as a consultant with St Barnabas and ULHT since the end of 2010 and in the last year has been appointed as medical director – a role that she is currently transitioning into. Clinically she works in the Inpatient Unit, Lincoln County Hospital and she supports the community in the North West of Lincolnshire.

With medical lead governance and research roles in St Barnabas and plan to get out and about much more to meet teams and understand roles when fully into her director role.

She has two girls and an ageing chocolate Labrador.

St.John is a qualified Chartered Management Accountant who over the last 25 years has worked within the healthcare, construction, distribution and facilities sectors.

Prior to joining St Barnabas, St John spent five years working in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. During his time in Australia, St.John worked in the facilities sector for the Morris Corporation – a company that provided catering and facility management for remote mines across the country. He also worked as a Financial Controller for a medical distributor where he developed their business intelligence reporting systems. In a voluntary role, St.John was chair of Queensland branch of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Before to moving to Australia, St.John worked as Financial Controller to St Luke’s hospice, Sheffield and it was his experience there that led to a passion for working in the charity and palliative care sector. Before St Luke’s, St.John was Finance Director of a Chesterfield Shop fitting and project management company.

St.John is married with two children and lives in Sheffield. In his spare time, he enjoys travelling, music, making and editing family movies and walking.

Paul has a BSc in Environmental Science as well as PCERT in the Fundamentals of Senior Management and has worked within the non-profit and Third sectors for his entire professional life.

Paul joined St Barnabas in April 2022 from Christian Aid. With over 15 years’ experience in the International Development, Paul has worked in Fundraising and Communications in a variety of roles. He spent 7 years in India where he was a founder of an international INGO working in India, UK and USA. Paul has experience generating income from regular givers, corporate partnerships, major donors, community fundraising, legacy giving and trust and foundations.

Prior to working at St Barnabas, Paul led a national team of fundraisers for Christian Aid, where he coordinated multi-channel appeals for their flagship fundraising week across communities in England.

Paul is married with 3 children and lives in Sheffield. In his spare time, Paul enjoys walking his dog, Willow, in the Peak District and meeting up with friends.

Lisa is a CIPD Level 7 qualified HR professional with over 10 years experience in people management in not for profit organisations.

Prior to joining St Barnabas Hospice as Human Resources Manager in 2015, Lisa worked in HR management in the third sector, and general management within a financial services organisation. Lisa also has a background in hospitality management, and so has varied experience to draw upon when leading the HR, Volunteer, Education and Hotel Services functions as Associate Director then Director of People and Education, which she was appointed to in 2022.

Lisa strongly believes that our workforce – paid, volunteer or trustee – is our most valuable asset, and we must support, nurture, value and empower our workforce so we can all be the best that we can be.

Lisa has a young daughter and enjoys walking, dance classes and going out on day trips with her family.

Emma previously worked within the NHS where she started as an Occupational Therapy Support Worker in 1999. She then went on to study as an Occupational Therapist at The University of Derby graduating in 2005, after which she progressed through the acute health care system.

“Hospice care allows people to have the most dignified and person-centred care at the time it matters the most, and St Barnabas understands that everyone has individual needs and wishes. Everyone I work with goes above and beyond every single day and I am very grateful to be part of such a fabulous organisation.”

Emma has a lot of interests outside of her passion for clinical care, including spending time with her friends and family, especially her grandson, taking holidays to any hot destination, as well as keeping fit in the gym.