Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

Cathy Walker

Chief Operating Officer

Cathy was appointed as Chief Operating Officer in March 2023. Her role involves overseeing the operational planning, management and reporting for the Trust’s five clinical divisions and acting as the organisation’s incident director. Cathy joined CLCH in 2015 and worked as a Director of Operations across several of the Trust’s clinical divisions and their integrated care systems. During this period, she led the Trust’s mobilisation of services in the Hertfordshire region. She became Interim Chief Operating Officer in 2022, before being appointed to the role substantively. Cathy has more than 14 years of NHS director experience within community and mental health trusts and commissioning organisations and started her NHS career as a mental health nurse.

Charlie Sheldon

Chief Nursing Officer

Charlie was appointed Chief Nursing Officer at CLCH in October 2018.Charlie trained as a general nurse before undertaking orthopaedic nurse training. He worked in clinical and leadership roles at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, St Thomas’ Hospital, and The Royal London Hospital before being appointed Deputy Chief Nurse for Education at Barts Health. He held Chief Nurse roles at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Hackney, and prior to his appointment as Chief Nurse, Charlie was Director of Nursing and Therapies at CLCH for five years. Charlie was appointed Honorary Visiting Professor at City, University of London in 2010. In addition to his CLCH role, Charlie was Chief Nursing Officer for NHS North West London Integrated Care Board from February 2022 to September 2023.

Dr Nicola Kemp

Chief Medical Officer

Dr Kemp was appointed as the trust’s Chief Medical Officer in September 2022. She has worked at CLCH since 2019, initially joining as Divisional Medical Director for the Trust’s Hertfordshire division before taking up the post of Deputy Medical Director. Alongside her CLCH role, Dr Kemp is a practising GP, works as a Senior Appraiser for the NHS England East of England and is an elected member of the BMA Committee of Medical Managers. Prior to joining the Trust, Dr Kemp worked in a number of senior leadership roles, including as a GP Federation Director, a CCG Transformation Lead and as an executive member of the Sessional GP Committee at the British Medical Association. In addition, she is a Health Foundation fellow, having undertaken their Generation Q Fellowship 2019-2021 during which she obtained a Masters in Leadership and Quality Improvement.

Ema Ojiako

Chief People Officer

Ema Ojiako was appointed as the Trust’s Chief People Officer in June 2026. Ema is a strategic, Board-level people leader with extensive experience across NHS and independent healthcare organisations. She has operated at both national and system level within the NHS, having served as Executive People Director at Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board and held a senior HR role within NHS England. Ema has also held senior leadership positions across NHS provider organisations spanning acute, community, mental health and ambulance services. She is recognised for leading complex organisational transformation and for building inclusive, high-performing cultures that enable sustainable workforce improvement. Alongside her executive career, Ema holds a judicial appointment as an Employment Tribunal Non-Legal Member and is an experienced Charity Trustee and Non-Executive Director. She also contributes to global policy initiatives through her volunteer work with UN Women UK. Ema holds a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management and is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD (FCIPD).

Jenny Greenshields

Chief Finance Officer and Director of Corporate Services

Jenny joined CLCH in August 2022, and is responsible for overseeing the finance, procurement, IM&T and estates functions at the Trust. Prior to joining the Trust, Jenny was the Deputy Chief Financial Officer at North West London Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and the North West London Integrated Care System, where she was responsible for the finance, governance, strategic estates and programme management office of the CCG. During this time, she led the transition of eight CCGs across North West London into a single CCG. Jenny has also held a number of senior roles in the NHS, including the Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, as well as primary care trusts in Hertfordshire and London.

Laura Churchill

Chief Strategy Officer

Laura Churchill is the Trust’s Chief Strategy Officer, Laura started her new role in 2024 and has overseen the CLCH five-year strategy to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes of our patients and communities. The strategy ‘Healthy Neighbourhoods, Thriving Communities’ is a radical step forward, positioning community care as the cornerstone of health and wellbeing in the populations we serve. Laura also holds the Transformation and Communications portfolio for the Trust, as well as overseeing our work to further partnership and integration opportunities and our contribution across our various Provider Collaboratives. Previously, Laura was the Director of the London Integrated Care System (ICS) Network, a role she held for five years. In this role, Laura worked closely with the five Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and regional partners on the delivery of the London-wide portfolio and has been leading the development of the London-wide strategy. It was through this role that Laura developed her passion for co-creation and working in partnership. Earlier in her career, Laura was the Executive Director of NEL Healthcare Consulting, part of NEL CSU, where she set up and led the first CSU-based consultancy unit. Before joining the NHS, she worked as a management consultant in PA Consulting Group.

Dick Sorabji

Vice Chair

Dick Sorabji has worked in public policy and management across five decades. In the 1980s he was the Parliamentary Adviser to the Shadow Health Secretary. He was elected a councillor in Lambeth becoming leader in 1988. In the 1990s he joined the faculty of Imperial College Business School, where he was founding Director of the first Cabinet Office sponsored Public Service MBA. His research addressed the challenge of public service improvement in the UK and around the world. Following a brief spell in corporate finance, Dick returned to public policy in 2003 joining think tanks LGIU and later NLGN, where he became Deputy Director in 2006. In 2008 he joined London Councils as a Corporate Director and later Deputy and Acting Chief Executive. At London Councils he advised the London Boroughs in their engagement with all London public services. In work with health partners he helped create the London Health Board, was on the team negotiating London’s Health devolution agreements with HM Treasury in 2015 and 2017, local government SRO agreeing the London Health Vision in 2019 and a member of London’s cross sector partnership forums used through the pandemic. In 2022 he became a Non Executive Member of the Board of South West London Integrated Care System at its launch and chaired the Finance and Planning Committee until May 2024, when he joined CLCH.

Greg Rubins

Non-Executive Director

Greg Rubins joined the Board in July 2024 and chairs the Trust’s Audit Committee. He is a qualified accountant and member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. Greg has enjoyed a 37 year career in public sector audit, at the National Audit Office, PwC and BDO. As a partner at BDO, he led on public sector internal audit and was the overall lead for the firm’s public sector work. He has extensive experience of working with the NHS, central and local government. Greg has been vice chair of the Wheatsheaf Trust charity in Southampton and chair of the Bournemouth Jewish Representative Council. He lives in north west London, where he was the chair of governors for a primary school in Harrow.

Kemi Adenubi

Non-Executive Director

Kemi Adenubi joined the Board in July 2024. She will chair the new Service Transformation Committee and is a member of the audit committee. Kemi is a digital transformation specialist and spent 13 years working in the NHS, leading the procurement of services such as NHS Mail and ambulance radio before becoming the national programme director for primary care IT. She had commercial and operational oversight for GP clinical IT systems such as EMIS and TPP and for the rollout of the electronic prescribing service into pharmacies. As a non-executive director for the Isle of Wight NHS Trust, Kemi oversaw the development of the Trust’s digital strategy, which included the rollout of new services and equipment to the community and mental health trust. She was also the Trust’s Wellbeing Guardian. Kemi trained as a civil engineer at Imperial College in London and currently runs a consultancy providing strategic advice to government organisations and start-ups.

Melanie Lindsay

Non-Executive Director

Melanie Lindsay joined the board on 1 July 2025. Melanie is a consultant with extensive experience of working with the executive leadership and boards of complex organisations, helping them to deliver transformational strategic and operational change through strategy definition, streamlining operations, organisational alignment and innovation. She has worked in the US, UK and Europe across multiple sectors including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, financial services and media. Over the last 25 years, Melanie has built deep knowledge and capabilities for change management and has published and presented papers on key aspects of successful change. Melanie has founded and run her own consulting firm for many years and previously held senior positions with McKinsey & Company and Reuters. Melanie has worked with The Prince’s (now King’s) Trust Business in the Community programme and volunteered with Crisis Text Line (Shout) and The Cherie Blair Foundation. She is also a Trustee of the Whitely Homes Trust. Melanie holds a Law degree from the University of Bristol and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from London Business School.

Professor Simon Woldman

Non Executive Director

Simon joined the Board in April 2025 and chairs the Quality and Safety committee. Simon is a consultant cardiologist and Director of Barts Heart Centre – one of the largest cardiovascular centres in Europe. He has 36 years’ experience in working in the NHS in Scotland and in England. He was in the leadership team that led the merger of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London Chest Hospital and the UCLH Heart Hospital to form Barts Heart Centre in 2006. He has overseen clinical transformation programmes that have revolutionised clinical services - such as cardiac surgery, where length of stay was reduced from 8 days to 5 days for many patients. Simon trained as a Doctor at University of Glasgow and became a leading expert in the management of heart failure and endocarditis. He later entered management, although remains active in clinical medicine.