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Hello Team Derian,

 

Thank you for a great staff away day on Monday at Brockholes, it was wonderful to see everyone together from across all areas of the charity, and lovely to see people meet who had not met before despite working at Derian for years!

 

The power of communication ad conversation resulted in a huge amount of feedback (which is exactly as I had hoped) but it will take a week or so for me to run through it, reflect and then come back to you all with some next steps action.

 

Thanks again for your openness and honesty.

 

One of the key messages that I heard loud and clear was the need for clarity on leadership and management, and as you know this is something that I have been working on over recent weeks.  Whilst a full new structure is not yet in place I did want to share with you the developments so far.

 

A new SLT (Strategic Leadership Team) has been formed, this small group of Directors will support me in the delivery of our strategic aims.  Joining me on the new SLT are:

 

Director of Clinical Services                                                   Lynn and then Catherine

Director of People & Organisational Development           Kim Owen

Director of Income and Engagement                                   Caroline Taylor

 

The new SLT above enables a wider management team to begin to be formed to lead the day to day operations of our organisation.  This SMT initially looks like:

 

Head of Finance                                                                        Colin Taylor

Head of Facilities & Infrastructure                                       Luke Bateson

Head of Quality, Governance & Compliance                      Lee Seymour (starts in October)

Head of Integrated Care                                                          Ruth Islip

Head of Family & Wellbeing Services                                  Dawn Andrews

 

It is likely that over the coming months other roles will join the new SMT as we develop the new structure.

 

In addition, we have created a new Marketing & Communications Manager position which Cameron Murray has been promoted in to, and a Lead ACP role, which Kevin Urdhin has been appointed to.

 

I can also confirm that Andrew Upton Ford has now left Derian House, and Mick Croskery will lead our new Retail Strategy alongside managing our Fundraising activity, in the new role of Head of Income Generation.

 

Developing a structure for the future is key to achieving our ambitions, both in relation to culture and strategy, this is the start and I wish everyone well in their given roles.

 

As the development work on the structure concludes over the coming weeks we will then produce an organisation chart and set up the new meeting structures and terms of reference etc

 

Any questions please ask….

 

Best wishes   Karen   Karen Edwards OBE Chief Executive Officer