The Trust Board

The Trust Board is the statutory authority, which sets the overall strategy for the Trust and monitors performance. The Trust has eight Non-Executive Directors, including the Chairman, and six Executive Directors. Non-Executive Directors bring an independent view to the decision making process of the Board.

Stacey Hunter - Chief Executive

Stacey is an experienced NHS Board Director with over 34 years’ experience working in the NHS and a decade operating in Chief Operating Officer, Divisional Director and Executive System Transformation roles. She has spent time working in large scale teaching hospitals, an integrated acute and community trust and is passionate about reducing the inequalities patients experience in respect of their access, experience and outcomes of care.

A nurse by background, Stacey spent several years working in clinical leadership roles before expanding her experience in general management. She has invested in her leadership development having undertaken the NHS Leadership Academy Aspiring CEO programme and is keen to continue to support the Trust to develop an inclusive culture that develops clinical and operational leaders to seek to continuously improve their services.

Stacey has experience of being a trustee in a number of different charities over the last 20 years most of them related to health and care.

Outside of work Stacey enjoys sailing and spending time with her dogs!

Peter Collins - Chief Medical Officer

Peter Collins joined the Trust as Interim Medical Director in October 2020, becoming Chief Medical Officer in March 2021.

Peter trained as a liver specialist and was the clinical lecturer at the Sheila Sherlock Liver Centre at the Royal Free Hospital prior to taking up a consultant post at University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust in 2005. He has a research interest in primary liver cancer and alcohol related liver failure and led the regional Primary Liver Cancer Service for the West of England. He has had a number of senior leadership positions in research, education and hospital care. In 2017 Peter was appointed to the role of Medical Director at Weston Area Health Trust where he played a key role in developing models of integrated care, reconfiguring services across Bristol and North Somerset and readying the organisation for a successful merger with University Hospitals Bristol. Since the merger he worked as a Deputy Medical Director for the large organisation focusing on the delivery of safe and effective COVID-19 care and the restoration of non-COVID services for the Trust and the local Healthcare system.

Melanie Whitfield - Chief People Officer

Melanie is an accomplished HR leader and coach with many years of experience leading on significant programmes of change and people strategy in both the private and public sector.

With many years of organisational HR experience, including Board level experience within Private Equity and Public and Charity sectors, Melanie joined the national team at NHS England and Improvement as one of the founding authors of the NHS People Plan. She "got the bug" for health some 6 years ago and has worked in both the community and acute setting alongside the Department of Health and National Regulator.

Melanie began her career in retail working for some of the best known brands on the high street including The John Lewis Partnership , Sainsbury's and Boots. She has continued both her formal academic studies and professional development and has a particular interest in the value and impact of team coaching. In joining the Trust Melanie expressed her wish to support all staff to be the best they could be, by helping create the kind of environment where everyone can thrive and in doing so, provide the best possible care to the community we serve.

Within SFT's executive team, she is the responsible leader for our Operational HR Services, Resourcing, Organisation design and Development, Education and Communication strategies alongside our Health and Safety and Occupational Health services. Outside of work she has a very understanding husband, two adult children who keep returning from university and always with their washing! Swimming at our Odstock health and fitness centre, yoga and rowing.

Andy Hyett - Chief Operating Officer

Andy Hyett has a wide range of NHS experience. He started his career as a biomedical scientist at Dorset County Hospital in the 1990s and moved into NHS management in Winchester. He continued to progress through senior management positions in Portsmouth and then University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust where he was Deputy Chief Operating Officer. Andy lives in Southampton.

Lisa Thomas - Chief Finance Officer

Lisa joined the Trust in September 2017. Lisa has over 18 years' finance experience in a number of NHS organisations having started her career in 1999 on the Graduate Financial Management Training scheme. She was previously Deputy Director of Finance at Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, and prior to that she spent time working in Basingstoke, Winchester and Gloucestershire NHS organisations in senior roles. Lisa lives in Devizes.

Judy Dyos - Chief Nursing Officer

Judy joined the Trust from Isle of Wight NHS Trust where she was formerly Deputy Director of Nursing and was instrumental in the Isle of Wight Trust obtaining a CQC rating of Good in many areas. Prior to that she was the Lead for Clinical Assurance and Quality Governance at University Hospital Southampton

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