Who's who

Directors

Steve Barnett, Director

Steve Barnett has been appointed acting chief executive of the NHS Confederation until a replacement for Gill Morgan is in post. Steve Barnett leads the work of NHS Employers and is also a director of the NHS Confederation. He is a member of the National Leadership Network for the NHS; the Cabinet Office Public Sector Employers Forum; the Government's Public Services Forum; the National Stakeholder Council for Health, Work and Wellbeing; the Council of the Institute for Employment Studies; Secretary of State's National Stakeholder Forum; the Employers Forum on Disability President's Group; and the Governing Council of the International Hospitals Federation. He is also a member of the Open University's governing council and chair of its staff strategy committee. He has also recently been appointed to the board of the Employers Forum on Disability.

Steve joined NHS Employers from the Home Office where he was senior director of human resources. Previous posts include deputy director of HR for the NHS at the Department of Health.

Contact Steve at steve.barnett@nhsemployers.org

Alastair Henderson, Director of Operations

Alastair Henderson is joint director of NHS Employers, with Sian Thomas, whilst Steve Barnett acts up as chief executive for the NHS Confederation. Alastair Henderson heads up key work areas including workforce reform and productivity, workforce planning, recruitment and reform of the professions including MMC and changes to nursing and other professions. He leads on healthy workplaces, health and safety, professional regulation and equality and diversity. Alastair is also responsible for our work on primary care contracting and General Medical Services.

Before NHS Employers was established, Alastair was the HR policy lead for the NHS Confederation, representing the organisation on all NHS HR issues.

Contact Alastair at alastair.henderson@nhsemployers.org or on 0113 3063040

Sian Thomas, Director of Development

Sian Thomas is joint director of NHS Employers, with Alastair Henderson, whilst Steve Barnett acts up as chief executive for the NHS Confederation. Sian Thomas is Director of Development for NHS Employers with responsibility for developing and managing programmes of work outside the Department of Health contract, in particular developing products and services for trusts and developing subscription services in a new business model for NHS Employers. Sian will be leading the commercial developments within NHS Employers across the UK with employers and networks through developing new membership groups and forming strategic alliances and partnerships outside the NHS for our members. Sian also has responsibility for the NHS Jobs services and the Workforce Change and Improvement Team and is Lead Director for London members, the FT Network and AUK Teaching Hospitals HR Network.

Sian attends the NHS Confederation Board of Directors and contributes to the Public Sector Employers Forum, the NHS Professionals Stakeholder Forum and is the NHS Employers link to the NHS Confederation Independent Sector Partners Network and Acute Sector Forum.

Before her post in NHS Employers, Sian was Director of HR/OD in the NHS for nearly ten years across Mental Health, Primary care and Acute organisations.

Contact Sian at sian.thomas@nhsemployers.org

Gill Bellord, Director of Pay, Pensions & Employment Relations

Gill Bellord is deputy director responsible for national pay and pensions negotiations on behalf of NHS organisations and for providing advice and support to health service employers on these issues.

She leads on securing employer involvement in pay review evidence, negotiating changes to contractual arrangements for Agenda for Change and employed doctors and maintaining current contracts. Gill also leads on employment relations and is our link to the work of the national Social Partnership Forum.

Contact Gill at agendaforchange@nhsemployers.org or at doctorsanddentists@nhsemployers.org

Maura Thompson, Deputy Director of Communications

Maura Thompson oversees communications across NHS Employers, ensuring we provide high quality and effective publications, events, web-based information and develop a strong organisational profile and reputation through campaigns and media work.

Maura is also responsible for engagement and networking with NHS organisations to ensure that NHS Employers is truly responsive to the needs of employers and for co-ordinating our relationships with government and key stakeholder organisations.

Contact Maura at maura.thompson@nhsemployers.org

Senior managers

Lynda Scott, National lead for large scale workforce change

Lynda's work at NHS Employers includes the delivery of a range of national change management programmes designed to improve patient care through implementation of new ways of working that enhance workforce quality, productivity and effectiveness. Programmes cover a range of national workforce priorities and engage NHS staff locally in developing and implementing change ideas that deliver measurable benefits for patients and staff. Programmes establish national learning networks designed to facilitate participant organisations in sharing learning and good practice and in this way, accelerating the pace of change in the service.

Contact Lynda at lynda.scott@nhsemployers.org or on 07789 653308

Andrea Hester, Head of Employment Services

Andrea Hester manages leads and directs the work of Employment Services. This responsibility extends to plurality, workforce supply and demand, NHS Careers, workplace health and wellbeing and regulation. Before taking up post with NHS Employers Andrea was Director of Human Resources at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust. In this role she was an active employer representative on the executive of the Staff Council and Pay Negotiating Committee.

Contact Andrea at andrea.hester@nhsemployers.org or telephone 0113 306 3022/ 07768 434551

Programme leads

Julian Topping, Head of workplace health and regulation

Julian manages our workplace health and regulation issues work and is currently providing input to the government's Health, Work and Well-being strategy, roll out of the stress management standards and new guidance on pre appointment checks.

Contact Julian at julian.topping@nhsemployers.org

Elizabeth Eddy, Head of workforce e-solutions

Liz leads the national work and projects for NHS Jobs Service, the Registration Partnership Project (a workforce synergy project with DH, Connecting for Health and Electronic Staff Record) and the professional agenda for nursing and midwifery.

Contact Liz at elizabeth.eddy@nhsemployers.org or on 0113 3063032

Foluke Ajayi, Head of NHS Careers and workforce supply

Foluke has responsibility for the delivery of the NHS Careers service along with devising and implementing strategies on issues currently affecting the NHS workforce.

Contact Foluke at foluke.ajayi@nhsemployers.org or on 0113 3063037

Godfrey Perera, Head of European and international employment

Godfrey represents the views of NHS organisations on European and international employment legislation, regulation and policy issues. Godfrey is President of the European Public Sector Employers and Secretary General of the European Hospital and Healthcare Employers Association.

Contact Godfrey at godfrey.perera@nhsemployers.org

Carol Baxter, Head of equality and diversity

Carol ensures that equality and diversity are integrated into the wider work of NHS Employers and also develops external and international relations through links with national equality commissions, higher education sector and trades unions.

Contact Carol on 0113 3063020

Advisers

Dr Ashley Fraser, Medical Director for NHS Employers

Ashley leads our Medical Workforce Programme working with employers to help them understand and contribute to changes in the recruitment, training and career structure of the medical workforce. This includes providing guidance to NHS organisations and representing NHS organisations' views to policy makers. Ashley is a consultant histopathologist and clinical director for pathology.

Contact Ashley at ashley.fraser@nhsemployers.org

Graham Saunders, NHS Employers policy adviser

Graham provides advice across a wide range of medical workforce issues including the implementation of Modernising Medical Careers, the changing role of doctors, funding education and training and medical regulation. Graham has worked in the NHS the whole of his professional life. He was District General Manager and Trust Chief Executive in Harrogate for almost 20 years, and before his retirement in September 2005 was Chief Executive of the West Yorkshire Workforce Development Confederation for 5 years.

Contact Graham at graham.saunders@nhsemployers.org or on 07721880518

Professor Tony Butterworth CBE, Nursing and non-medical professions

Tony's work for NHS Employers includes links with modernising the health professions, the development of research and teaching careers and developing high level engagement with health profession organisations. He is also Director for the Centre for Clinical and Academic Workforce Innovation, University of Lincoln and Non-Executive director of the NHS Institute. An experienced clinician, researcher and leader, his previous recent posts have included Professor, Dean and Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Manchester and WDC Chief Executive in the East Midlands.

Contact Tony at tbutterworth@lincoln.ac.uk