Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

Kelly Barker

Chief Operating Officer

Kelly has worked in Bradford since 2004 and is passionate and committed to leading and delivering high quality services to our communities. Kelly has operationally led services spanning both community and mental health, with a strong focus on system and partnership working, and has delivered a number of key service improvements and innovations. Kelly is a values driven leader, committed to creating ‘better lives together’ by using the Care Trust Way, our quality improvement methodology, and having co-production at the heart of everything we do.

Mike Woodhead

Chief Finance Officer and Place Director of

Mike is a highly experienced finance professional with a broad range of experience in the public sector, in senior leadership roles across health and care organisations. Prior to joining our Trust, Mike was joint Chief Finance Officer (CFO) for Bury Clinical Commissioning Group and Bury Council, where he was also Vice-Chair of the Bury Strategic Estates Group. Mike has 17 years in consultancy roles including interim Deputy CFO for Bury CCG, where he led the outline financial case for Greater Manchester (GM) Devolution, working with providers, CCGs and national commissioners. His experience also includes leading the learning disability and mental health workstreams at Tameside and Glossop CCG, as part of a wider programme to establish an integrated care organisation. Alongside his Trust role, Mike is also the Director of Finance for Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership.

Philippa Hubbard

Director of Nursing, Professions and Care Standard

Tim Rycroft

Chief Information Officer

Tim joined the organisation from Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, following seven years as Head of Information Technology (IT) and Information Governance (IG). During his time at Airedale, Tim managed the pilots and early implementation of the multi-agency telemedicine service for people with long term conditions. This was developed further by the ‘Airedale Hub’ that achieved national award recognition for its innovative work in supporting care homes. Before joining Airedale, Tim was Head of Technology Business Solutions at the National Policing Improvements Agency where he led the IT delivery for a new state-of-the-art £12 million forensic training centre and introduced a range of innovative technologies to support operational learning. Tim brings considerable information management and technology (IM&T) experience to the new role, both within the NHS and national policing agencies. Tim is a non-voting member of the Board.

Alyson McGregor

Non - Executive Director

Alyson has almost 40 years’ experience working in a range of health roles in the public, private and voluntary sector as well as over nine years Board level experience with Bradford and Airedale Primary Care Trusts. Alyson started her working life in public health in Bradford and Airedale in 1983, managing health improvement services. She has worked at district, regional and national levels and is the co-founder and National Director of Altogether Better, an NHS network organisation. She has many years’ experience of using systems’ approaches and working collaboratively across organisational boundaries with people, to codesign solutions to the challenges and problems that both the NHS and people in communities are facing. She has worked extensively with primary care for over 10 years, supporting them to implement a new model of care called collaborative practice, with citizens as partners. She has worked with over 30 CCGs across the country, as well as working internationally. In recent years, she has developed social prescribing pilots in Ontario which are being adopted by the Canadian government. Alyson is a member of the NHS Leadership Academy faculty and part of NHS England’s Personalised Care Leadership Programme team. She was a member of the Prime Minister’s GP Challenge Advisory Group, is a founding member of the National Social Prescribing Network Steering Group and is currently a member of the Volunteering Taskforce set up by the Cabinet Office. She was voted by the Health Service Journal as one of the top 50 inspirational women leaders in the NHS and was awarded an MBE for services to Collaborative Practice and service development in the NHS, in the 2021 New Year Honours list.

Christopher Malish

Non - Executive Director

Christopher Malish has extensive experience in the finance, education, audit and risk in the public sectors and was the Executive lead for both Finance and General Purposes Committee and Audit Committee. This follows eight years at the University of Bradford, as the Interim Director of Finance, after progressing through a range of senior finance roles within the education sector. A resident of Bingley, Christopher has lived in Bradford for the last seventeen years and is very passionate about supporting the local communities served by the Trust, in line with the Trust’s values.

Cleveland Henry

Non-Executive Director

Cleveland brings over 25 years of experience in the delivery of complex digital programmes in health, financial and other service industries, including leading the national rollout of the health and care collaborative platform NHSmail 2 and the transformation of NHS Choices – now the NHS website – into one of Europe’s most visited health information sites. More recently, he has stepped into an Interim Chief Operating Officer role at health and care technology organisation Optum UK supporting over 100,00 healthcare professionals through systems like EMIS and Proscript, driving digital transformation across the Health System and shaping strategic delivery following several Director roles. Cleveland brings Non-Executive Director (NED) experience to our Trust having previously made contributions as a NED at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Outside of work, Cleveland is an active participant in cycling and running events with a passion for technology innovation, current affairs, property and travel. He is deeply committed to health equity and is regularly involved in charitable initiatives, raising funds for a range of good causes over the years.

Mark Rawcliffe

Non-Executive Director

Mark has held senior roles in the financial sector for over 21 years and is currently responsible for building and delivering the Banking Digital Transformation Strategy for Lloyds Banking Group. His banking-based career quickly adapted from frontline posts in diverse communities, to more strategic roles including managing operations teams and leading large regulatory change programmes. Mark has successfully created and led change strategies whilst managing budgets at times when cost savings have been key, but also being cognisant of risks and complex regulation. The initiatives he has delivered have positively impacted millions of customers and he has been proactive in innovatively supporting vulnerable customers. His financial acumen and digital expertise broadens the Board’s wealth of knowledge in these areas. He is also a member of various senior committees within the banking group. Outside work, Mark is a family man and is passionate around supporting charities that have helped his family. He actively fundraises for them to make positive contributions to the lives of people in the community.

Sally Napper

Non-Executive Director

A registered nurse, Sally brings considerable senior level clinical leadership and NHS experience to her Non-Executive Director (NED) role and was previously an Associate NED for the Trust. She is also the Senior Independent Director for the Board. Sally started in the NHS as a nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Her 38-year career includes Operational Director and then Chief Operating officer and Chief Nurse, at Bradford Teaching Hospitals. In this role she led the hospitals ‘Patient First’ programme to improve patients’ experience across all services, and was the professional lead for nursing, midwifery, and allied health professionals. Sally’s Executive-level experience also includes Director of Nursing for Lancashire and South Cumbria for NHS England that oversees all NHS services, where she was responsible for the transforming care programme for people with learning disabilities. Sally has also undertaken the role of Chief Executive and Director of Clinical Services at Rotherham Hospice.

Warren Brown

Non-Executive Director

Warren has considerable senior-level experience across the public sector at the Department of Health, where he was responsible for key policy areas like the NHS Foundation Trust roll out and the NHS Operating Framework. More recently, following a number of Director level roles, he was Director of Performance and Improvement for NHS England and NHS Improvement across the North East and Yorkshire region, before retiring from the role. Warren is actively involved in local community initiatives, including supporting public safety measures and leading NHS wellbeing walks.