Meet Our Team
St Barnabas Hospice employs over 300 members of paid staff, and over 1,000 volunteers. Through their hard work and dedication, we are able to continue providing care free of charge across Lincolnshire.
St Barnabas Hospice employs over 300 members of paid staff, and over 1,000 volunteers. Through their hard work and dedication, we are able to continue providing care free of charge across Lincolnshire.
The Executive Management team are responsible for each of the departments within the Hospice.
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.
All our trustees are local people who volunteer their time, bringing a wealth of experience to ensure our charity is well run.
Robert (Bob) was born and educated in Northern Ireland. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force in 1959 with a career in telecommunications, serving predominantly in Germany and Cyprus, and completing his service in 1981. Following this he studied Certified Accountancy at Sheffield Polytechnic for three years from 1981 to 1984 gaining a Polytechnic Associateship in Accountancy.
He subsequently joined the NHS in 1984 as an accountant and in a career stretching through to 2007 was employed in a variety of general management roles including that of Chief Executive of a Primary Care Group. In a specialist commissioning role he was also instrumental in the development of a Genetics Network across Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield.
Robert has been interested and involved in developing palliative care in the county from 1997. Working with Macmillan, Marie Curie, St Barnabas and other care providers he helped to keep palliative care in the forefront of commissioning plans. He also chaired the Mid Trent Cancer Network Palliative Care Group from 2002 to 2009 responsible for developing and implementing standards for palliative care across the network.
He was invited to become a trustee of St Barnabas in 2007 and subsequently elected as Chairman in the same year.
After serving as Chairman for twelve years, at the 2019 Annual General Meeting, Robert stood down as chairman and took on a brand new role as Trustee President.
Originally from Staffordshire, David has lived in Lincolnshire since 1987. He qualified and registered as a Pharmacist in 1973 and held senior posts in Hospital Pharmacy in both Cheshire and Lincolnshire until 1998.
David then held a number of senior management positions in the NHS until he retired in March 2013. David therefore brings 41 years of NHS experience to the role of Trustee.
David has also been a member of the Lincoln Prison Independent Monitoring Board since December 2012 and its Chairman since January 2015.
David’s hobbies include cycling, football and reading. He has also been a regular road runner for 30 years and has run a number of marathons including raising money for charity.
Tony was born in Lincoln and educated at the Royal Wolverhampton School. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and after qualifying and having spent some time in Edinburgh to gain experience, he returned to Lincoln and joined the family Wholesale Pharmaceutical business F Maltby & Sons Ltd. Having worked in all departments he became the Sales and Product manager and director responsible for IT systems.
In 1989 with the passing of his father, he became the Managing Director of the business and he and his brother took the business forward becoming the only Independent Wholesaler in the East Midlands and owning a chain of retail pharmacies. The business was sold to the Lincolnshire Co-operative Society in 2009 and having worked on to assist in the transition, he retired in 2013.
He is a Trustee and the Treasurer of the Lincoln Civic Trust and a Trustee and the Company Secretary of the Lindum Sports Association Ltd.
At the 2019 Annual General Meeting, Tony was elected as Trust Chairman.
Phillip has been associated with Andrew & Co LLP for almost forty years. Over that time he has held a number of senior roles. He retired from the Partnership at the end of March 2016 and now acts as a Consultant for the firm.
Phillip has a keen interest in the Charitable Sector and, in addition to being a member of our Board of Trustees, is Vice Chairman of the Lindum Sports Association and a trustee of Bransby Horses and Stamford Endowed Schools Foundation.
Phillip enjoys walking in the Lake District, watching cricket and rugby, swimming and has a keen interest in politics.
Sam Elkington has significant experience in negotiating Planning Agreements, complex property sales and acquisitions both in the public and private sector in respect of occupational requirements, developments and investment sales.
Sam was the Senior Partner and one of the founding Partners of Hodgson Elkington LLP which was formed in 1990 and became part of Lambert Smith Hampton in 2016. With over 35 years involvement in the business he specialises in Property Management, Development and related Professional fields.
He provides expert advice on property investment, management and commercial matters, and has an interest in the economic regeneration of rural areas having promoted several schemes throughout Lincolnshire during his career.
Hayley qualified as a Physiotherapist in 1995 in Salford, Manchester, moving to Lincolnshire where she worked for 20 years in both clinical and management positions in the acute hospital.
She then moved to NHSE England/Improvement in 2015, holding a variety of senior roles in operational delivery, strategic management and most recently in strategic transformation supporting healthcare systems across the Central Midlands.
Hayley has a particular interest in the leadership of teams and its impact on patient outcomes, having undertaken several programmes and research which links her clinical background and professional interest in supporting people to do their best for those who need our support.
Hayley enjoys gardening, walking and visiting National Trust and Heritage sites.
James has worked in the Higher and Further Education sectors for over 20 years and, since October 2016, has been the Head of Quality Improvement at The Lincoln College Group. Prior to this, James has supported the education of many students as a lecturer, course leader, teacher trainer and educational developer, whilst also previously undertaking external examiner roles for Leeds Beckett University. James is also Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and recently completed a PhD in Educational Research and Development, researching creativity as an employability skill.
James has a keen interest in supporting charitable organisations, and family circumstances led James to experience first-hand the amazing work St Barnabas Hospice do for so many people. James was, therefore, delighted to become a member of the Board of Trustees and support St Barnabas Hospice in whatever way he can.
In his spare time, James enjoys spending time with his family and participating in sports such as road cycling and walking. James also likes to watch many different sports, including watching his son play football and cricket. He also helps coach cricket at the local cricket club.
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