Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Anne Rackham

Group Chief Delivery and Integration Officer

Anne has led operational services for over 23 years in a range of community and inpatient settings. Joining the NHS in 1993, Anne has mainly worked in mental health services and offender health pathways. She joined NHFT in 2000 and LPT in 2026 and is passionate about transformation, utilising lived experience and co-production with multidisciplinary teams to strive for the best outcomes for people, living the values of NHFT. Anne has a degree in nursing, masters in business administration and has completed the Nye Bevan leadership training. Over the years she has utilised clinical skills in solution-focused therapy and family therapy as a basis for developing teams and promoting wellbeing and staff support.

Bhanu Chadalavada

Medical Executive Director

Bhanu is a consultant in perinatal psychiatry and established the Perinatal Service in Northamptonshire before returning to Leicestershire Partnership Trust as Medical Director. Having completed undergraduate medical training in India before moving to the UK, he undertook psychiatric training at Mersey care, Stafford and LPT. Bhanu is keen to provide high quality, evidence-based care and particularly interested in addressing health inequalities and differential access, using principles of co-production. He is passionate about supporting doctors at all levels to progress in their careers and in seeking opportunities for them to develop.

David Williams

Executive Director of Strategy and Partnerships

David was previously a Locality Director for NHS England in the West Midlands. His responsibilities included commissioning primary care, dentistry and public health services, as well as supporting a number of Sustainability Transformation Partnerships (STPs). David was also the Accountable Emergency Officer for the West Midlands with responsibility for ensure the NHS was prepared and able to respond to major incident situations. David has extensive experience in education, the voluntary healthcare sectors, as well as experience in partnership working and developing ways to work differently. David has been working across Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Trust and Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust as director of strategy and partnerships since 2020.

Jean Knight

Deputy Chief Executive and Managing Executive Director

Jean has been working for nearly 20 years in the NHS in both in the Acute and Mental Health and Community Sector. Her experience has been predominantly in operational management where she has managed a variety of services. In 2017 she was appointed as the Deputy Director for Adult and Children’s Services in NHFT and then progressed to become Chief Operating Officer in 2020. Jean joined LPT in April 2023 as the Managing Director and DCEO she is also the AEO for the Trust. Jean is committed to the values of LPT and supporting colleagues to have a positive working life. She is passionate about collaborative working to improve outcomes for our population. Jean also has a master’s in healthcare leadership.

Kate Dyer

Director of Governance and Risk

Following a career within the NHS and the Audit Commission, Kate has worked in the Trust since 2011, initially with 360 Assurance (a service hosted by LPT) where she held positions including Chief Internal Auditor and Assistant Director with a focus on governance and performance. From 2018, Kate worked for the Trust as the Head of Assurance. In 2020 Kate was appointed as the interim company secretary and in 2021 was appointed as the Deputy Director of Governance and Risk. In 2024 Kate was appointed as LPT's Director of Corporate Governance and Risk. In this role, Kate manages Legal and Corporate Affairs, Corporate Governance and Risk, and Transformation. This includes delivery of a well-led framework, compliance and regulation, and the day-to-day management of internal audit.

Linda Chibuzor

Group Chief Nurse

Linda has a wealth of NHS experience and working in the healthcare sector. Linda is a registered nurse in mental health and is also a Specialist Dementia Nurse and a Best Interest Assessor (BIA). She spent most of her early career working within mental health and learning disabilities services, specifically working as a frontline staff nurse, prison nurse, community nurse, forensic nurse and previously as a care home manager. Linda worked in Essex as a ward manager across different age groups, perinatal services, children's services, adults of working age, and older adults, before moving on to work in various commissioning roles (CCGs) including clinical quality, mental health, continuing healthcare, children services, maternity, community services, learning disabilities including transforming care programme, and Autism. Linda worked as Deputy Director of Nursing, Quality and Safeguarding at NHS Milton Keynes CCG (now BLMK ICB), Deputy Director of Nursing at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Notts Healthcare), before joining NHFT in January 2022 as Director of Nursing, AHPs and Quality, and becoming Group chief nurse of Leicestershire Partnership and Northamptonshire Healthcare Associate University Group in November 2025.

Paul Sheldon

Chief Finance Officer

Paul joined NHFT from South Warwickshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) where he was Chief Finance Officer since 2017 and also the Sustainable Transformation Partnership (STP) Finance Lead for Coventry and Warwickshire. Paul has worked in the public sector for over 26 years, beginning his career in social services finance, before spending the last 20 years working in the NHS. He has a long and successful track record in various commissioning organisations; from Health Authorities to Primary Care Trusts to CCGs. Paul became the fully accountable Director of Finance for NHFT from 1 April 2021. On 1 February 2022, Paul took on the interim role of Chief Finance Officer for Leicestershire Partnership and Northamptonshire Healthcare Group.

Sam Leak

Executive Director of Community Health Services

Sam has a wealth of healthcare experience with over 30 years in the NHS, starting her career as a Physiotherapist and then moving into management roles. Sam is also the Executive sponsor for the LPT LGBTQ+ network.

Sarah Willis

Executive Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development

Sarah is an experienced, MCIPD qualified HR Director with over 27 years of experience working across the public and private sector in Senior HR roles. She is currently the Director of HR and OD at LPT and holds board level responsibility for a wide-ranging workforce portfolio. Sarah commenced her career in HR in the utilities sector working for various large multi-national energy providers before moving to the public sector in 2007. Since then, she has held various senior leadership roles with a portfolio which covers HR, Equalities, Training, Recruitment, Workforce Planning and Information, Workforce Systems and Medical staffing, Employee Resourcing and Attraction, OD and Learning and Development. In 2017 Sarah was appointed to Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development.

Sharon Murphy

Executive Director of Finance

Sharon started working in the NHS on the national Finance Graduate training scheme over 25 years ago, initially working in Fosse Health (a predecessor organisation of LPT) and has since worked in a number of senior finance roles in a national body, commissioner, CSU and acute organisations, all within the LLR system. Sharon returned to LPT nine years ago as Deputy Director of Finance and was the Acting Director of Finance from January 2021 to January 2022. Sharon was appointed to the permanent Director of Finance role in February 2022. Sharon is passionate about supporting women to progress and succeed, particularly in the areas of finance and procurement, where women leaders are traditionally underrepresented. Sharon is the executive lead for the LPT Women’s network and is a member of regional and national networking groups on this topic.

Tanya Hibbert

Executive Director of Mental Health

Tanya has been the Director of Mental Health at LPT since October 2022. She was a very senior manager in mental health and community services for 8 years previously in a Mental Health and Community Trust in the North-West of England and worked in senior leadership roles in a number of Acute Trusts. Tanya originally qualified as a physiotherapist in Australia in the 1990s but moved to the UK in 1997 and has lived here ever since. Her passion is to provide, commission and deliver services that impact positively on patients, service users, carers and our communities. Tanya has extensive experience and success in delivering transformation and quality improvement programmes in a financially sustainable way. She has significant experience in co-producing and delivering care through partnerships with voluntary and third sector organisations.

Chris Skelton

Non-Executive Director

Chris joined LPT as a NED in January 2026. He has worked at ExtraCare since 2004 initially as finance director, becoming executive director corporate resources in 2017. He currently leads the corporate functions of finance, people, property sales, marketing and the retail subsidiary. Chris, originally from Lancashire, graduated from Sheffield University in 1982 with a degree in accounting and financial management. He joined Reed Elsevier plc accounting training scheme and on becoming a qualified accountant, moved into their regional newspaper division. He remained in the newspaper industry for 20 years, working on the launch of Europe’s first daily free newspaper in Birmingham and the management buy-out of Yorkshire Post Newspaper Group. He held several senior positions including group finance director and then managing director for the last ten years, most latterly at Lancaster and Morecambe Newspapers Limited where he also had responsibility for TMX magazine.

Hetal Parmar

Non-Executive Director, Chair of the Audit and Assurance Committee

Hetal has over 22 years’ experience of working in financial services, having held a number of leadership roles including being the Director of Banking, Savings and Cahoot at Santander UK. Hetal is currently Chief Operating Officer at The Mead Educational Trust. He has extensive experience of customer centric strategy development, business transformation, financial and risk governance, performance oversight and ensuring integrity in decision making. Hetal is passionate about creating an inclusive culture, supports ‘Women in Business’ and ‘Adoption & Fostering’ networks, and provides coaching and mentoring to help people develop their leadership skills. He has over 13 years’ experience as a Non-Executive Director across different sectors, including housing, education and healthcare. Hetal joined LPT’s Board as a Non-Executive Director in 2022 and is the Chair of the Board’s Audit and Risk Committee.

Josie Spencer

Interim Deputy Chair

Josie’s clinical background is as a registered nurse and registered nurse tutor. She has a master’s degree from the University of Warwick and has studied as a Postgraduate at the University of Nottingham. When working clinically in her early career Josie worked in Urgent Care and Haematology in the Coventry and Warwickshire area. Her managerial experience includes roles Director of Nursing, Director of Operations and Managing Director roles in several Trusts in the Midlands and South Yorkshire. Josie’s final role was Chief Executive of Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust. Since leaving in 2021 Josie has undertaken a number of Non-Executive roles. In addition to her role here at LPT, she is Chair of the Safety and Quality Committee at Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent ICB and holds a NED role at Coventry and Warwickshire GP Federation. Josie is also the Freedom to Speak Up independent NED.

Liz Anderson

Non-Executive Director

Elizabeth Anderson is a Professor at Leicester Medical School at the University of Leicester where she leads on interprofessional education, patient safety and patient involvement. She trained as a nurse at St Bartholomew’s Hospital London and went onto work in Leicester as a Midwife and Health Visitor. Her clinical research was in poverty and disadvantage, and she now focusses on pedagogic research with a plethora of work on interprofessional learning. She was recognised as a National Teaching Fellow by the Higher Education Academy for her excellence in education in 2007. She is Joint Chair of the UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education. She was appointed as the NED for LPT by the University of Leicester in September 2023.

Melanie Hall

Non-Executive Director

Melanie has over 15 years of Board experience within the life sciences and healthcare sector, starting with the NHS Logistics Authority and latterly as Global Special Projects Officer at DHL, Global Life Sciences and Healthcare Division. Having worked as a partner with the NHS for much of her career, Melanie has a wealth of experience in business and service transformation, and an excellent understanding of the challenges and strategic direction of the NHS. She also brings knowledge and high standards of quality assurance and governance levels in CQC standards and audits. Melanie joined LPT’s Board as a Non-Executive Director in June 2025.

Tim Harrison

Non-Executive Director

Tim has been the Chief Executive Officer of Granta Medical Practices in South Cambridgeshire for three years. He has executive responsibility for the largest general practice in East of England. Prior to the NHS, he worked for 23 years for the John Lewis Partnership where he was Development Director. Tim has broad experience of commercial operations and delivering transformational change at an industrial scale. Having been a director in the UK's largest employee-owned organisation, he has deep experience of leadership excellence and focussed delivery. His experience growing an organisation within the NHS has given him insight into the changing nature and demands of the modern NHS.