Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust

Abby Trainer

Executive Director of Nursing, AHPs and Quality (DIPC)

Darren Tidmarsh

Chief people officer and deputy chief executive

Jen Leah

Chief Finance Officer

Kay Fawcett

Non-executive director

Kay has held many senior positions within NHS Trusts as well as undertaking advisory and consultancy roles. She was executive director of nursing for Derby Hospitals for two and a half years up until January 2008. More recently she held positions as chief nurse at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust for nearly six years and as interim executive director of nursing at George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton, for six months until February 2018. Kay, who lives in Nuneaton, launched her own consultancy company five years ago and also holds a position as a non-executive director with the Royal College of Nursing's publishing arm, RCNi. Having been an executive nurse in large teaching hospitals for much of her career, her involvement with us marks her first role within a community trust.

Simone Jordan

Non-executive director

In her three-decades in senior HR roles she held various appointments including director of HR at Leicester General Hospital; chief executive of a regional workforce development confederation; and chief operating officer and deputy chief executive at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, for five years until 2010. Following her time at the NHS Institute, she was appointed as director of workforce for NHS East Midlands region at a time of significant change due to the Lansley reforms of 2013, which introduced the biggest structural reform of the NHS since its formation, enshrined in the Health and Social Care Act of 2012. She later moved to Health Education England as a regional managing director until 2014 after which she worked independently as a consultant, coach and facilitator until 2025. Simone has a wide range of experience as a non-executive director on other NHS Boards including the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust; and Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board. We welcomed Simone to our Trust Board as a non-executive director in December 2025.

Stuart Proud

Non-executive director

Stuart is a fully qualified accountant with the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), qualifying in 2007. He has significant experience of public sector services from working in a variety of Civil Service roles across Central Government Departments and their Agencies in a career spanning 37 years. He has a wealth of experience in finance and governance, as well as broader interests in change, transformation, process improvement, people and leadership. In his most recent Civil service role, he was Finance and People Director for the Education & Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) within the Department of Education, where he was responsible for the financial management and stewardship of c£60bn of government spending, as well as leading the People function for the Agency. Prior to that role, Stuart had been Transformation Director of a major programme aimed at re-organisation and improvement of the Finance function within the Department for Work and Pensions. He has recently taken retirement from the Civil Service to pursue other interests and takes on his role as Non-Executive Director (NED) within the Trust as his first NED appointment. Stuart is a life-long resident of the Peak District, having been born and brought up in and around Buxton. He's lived in Whaley Bridge for almost 30 years, and is married to Alison, and has two grown-up sons. Outside of work, he loves walking, reading, music, sport – cricket as a spectator, and as a season ticket holder of Buxton FC – and has recently re-ignited his interest in drawing and painting, mainly portraits inspired by the Sky Arts programme.