Kate joined the Trust in January 2017 leading the workforce agenda for the Healthier Pennine Lancashire programme and then acting as Operational Director of HR and OD. She has 37 years working in various roles across the NHS, within Primary Care, Mental Health and Acute Trusts. She has fulfilled a number of roles regionally and worked nationally on the Breaking Through programme which is where her passion for an inclusive culture comes from. Kate leads the People and Culture function whose priorities are attraction and retention of the workforce, staff engagement and wellbeing and creating a culture of belonging and compassionate leadership. She is a member of the Lancashire LEP Skills Advisory Panel, Chair of the Lancashire and South Cumbria HRD Network and a Director of the Board of The Lancashire and Cumbria Institute of Technology as ELHTs representative.
