The Board meet every month, click here for details. Please note, the Trust’s overall leadership structure can be viewed here: https://www.dbth.nhs.uk/structure-charts/
Executive Directors
Richard Parker OBE, Chief Executive
His previous role was Director of Nursing, Midwifery & Quality. Richard began his career as a student nurse, qualifying in 1985. Richard was appointed Deputy Chief Nurse at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in 2005, Deputy Chief Operating Officer in 2010 and then Chief Operating Officer in 2013. He held that position until joining us in October 2013 and became Chief Executive in January 2017.
Richard has a special interest in ways of ensuring that nurse staffing levels are safe, appropriate and provide high-quality patient care. He gained a MBA (Health and Social Services) in 1997 from Leeds University and the Nuffield Institute for Health and his dissertation was on acuity, patient dependency and safe staffing levels.
Zara Jones, Deputy Chief Executive
Prior to her appointment at DBTH, Zara served as the Executive Director of Strategy and Planning at Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), where she, along with partners in the region, oversaw a diverse portfolio of work, encompassing services areas including acute care, mental health, primary and community care and includes responsibility from commissioning, performance and strategy development perspectives.
Throughout her career, Zara has developed expertise in a number of areas such as strategy, performance management, and commissioning. As an alumnus of the NHS Graduate Management Scheme, her invaluable experience, gained from senior roles at prominent NHS organisations including Sherwood Forest Hospitals, Nottingham University Hospitals and The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust will ensure that Zara is able to make a significant contribution to DBTH’s future.
Denise Smith, Chief Operating Officer [joins in August 2022]
Originally from York, Denise joined the NHS over 25 years ago, starting in operational management in Women & Children services. She has worked across primary and secondary care, in both commissioner and provider organisations and, since 2009, Denise has worked in operational leadership positions in a number of Acute Trusts across the country.
Most recently Denise was the Chief Operating Officer at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn, a position she held from May 2019. She will join DBTH in August for one day a week, before taking up the role full-time in January 2023.
Dr Tim Noble, Executive Medical Director
Tim, who qualified from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School in London in 1989, was born and raised in York. After five years of medical training, he practised in a number of hospitals in the south of England.
In 1995, Dr Noble returned to the North of England and completed a research project at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, qualifying as a specialist in respiratory medicine in 2002. A move to Barnsley Hospital followed in 2003 before starting his career at DBTH in 2006 as a Consultant Respiratory Physician. From 2010 to 2017, the Doncaster resident oversaw the hospitals’ respiratory medicine service, as well as undertaking two Clinical Director posts, before becoming Deputy Medical Director in 2017.
Dr Tim Noble was appointed Executive Medical Director of Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals in 2020.
Jon Sargeant, Executive Director of Recovery, Innovation and Transformation and Chief Financial Officer
Jon was previously Director of Finance at Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and has over 25 years of experience, working exclusively in the health service.
Starting as a Financial Trainee at Heartlands Hospital in 1989, Jon has held a number of board level posts, most notably as Director of Finance at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals, leading a number of reconfiguration projects at the London-based Trust, before moving to Burton Hospitals in 2013.
Jon joined Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals in November 2016 as Director of Finance, leading this service for five years before being named as Executive Director for Recovery, Innovation and Transformation in a secondment capacity. The services which have come together to form this new directorate, and are key in supporting and enabling the improvements envisioned, are Strategy and Improvement, Digital Transformation, Information and Informatics, and the Performance Management Office. Together, the team will focus upon enhancing and developing services and systems across the organisation as the Trust emerges from the challenges of COVID-19, ultimately in an bid to improve patient care and treatment.
Zoe Lintin, Chief People Officer
A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), Zoe was formerly the Director of Human Resources (HR) and Organisational Development (OD) at Chesterfield Royal Hospital, a position she held since March 2017. She joined Team DBTH in 2022.
Passionate about creating the best possible workplace environment for colleagues, with an acute understanding of the direct impact this has on the delivery of high quality healthcare, Zoe is also the Joint Vice President of the East Midlands branch of the Healthcare People Management Association (HPMA) and the Co-Chair of the East Midlands Social Partnership Forum.
Originally from Bradford, Zoe’s early career included working in a range of HR, OD and learning and development roles in the private and legal sector. She has lived in South Yorkshire for more than 16 years, and began her career within the NHS working for Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust in 2006.
Karen Jessop, Chief Nurse
Karen was previously the Deputy Chief Nurse at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (STH), a position she held between October 2017 and January 2023.
Qualifying as a Registered Nurse over 25 years ago, Karen joined Hull University Hospitals in 1995 where she spent the next two decades, holding a variety of roles within critical care and surgery. Karen eventually progressed to become a Matron and a Divisional Nurse Manager, also qualifying as a Registered Midwife and completing a Master’s Degree in Health Care Leadership with the University of Birmingham.
An integral role at the Trust, the Chief Nurse provides clear leadership to around 3,000 clinical staff, overseeing the development and delivery of outstanding patient care, while driving the organisation’s strategies for ‘Quality’, ‘Patient Experience’, ‘Patient Safety’ and ‘Infection Prevention and Control’.
Non-Executive Directors
Suzy Brain England OBE C Dir, Chair of the Board.
Suzy is an experienced board chair, non-executive director, consultant, mentor and counsellor. Suzy is currently the Chair of Derwent Living Housing Association, Chair and Trustee of Keep Britain Tidy, Lay Representative for Health Education England’s doctor training and recruitment in Yorkshire, a member of the Institute of Directors’ Accreditation and Standards Committee, and founder of Cloud Talking mentoring services.
Suzy has a wealth of experience in chairing and serving on boards in a variety of sectors including health, housing, enterprise and finance. She is a former Chair of Kirklees Community Healthcare Services and was a Non-executive Director at Barnsley Hospitals NHS Trust. She was awarded an OBE for her work as Chair of the Department of Work and Pensions Decision Making Standards Committee. Suzy began her career as a journalist and in her executive roles she has been CEO of The Talent Foundation, the Earth Centre in South Yorkshire and a Director in the Central London Training and Enterprise Council.
Kath Smart, Non-executive Director.
A Doncaster resident, Kath has an extensive background in the public sector, working within the NHS for over a decade as a commissioner in Doncaster, Wakefield and Hull, covering a variety of roles from risk management to governance and external inspections.
As a Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) qualified accountant, Kath has most recently worked with Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) as a Non-Executive Director, as well as Chair of the organisation’s Audit Committee and social enterprise, Flourish Enterprises.
Neil Rhodes, Non-executive Director.
Neil was born and brought up in Barnsley and now lives in the north of Lincolnshire. His particular areas of interest in the NHS are the quality of patient care and the importance of the patient perspective in designing services that give real value for money. Neil is the Chair of the Financial Oversight Committee of the Trust, responsible for the scrutiny of those areas on behalf of the wider board. His professional background was in policing, where as a chief constable he was responsible for the running of a large public sector organisation, with complex finances and a clear public service ethos.
Neil has extensive experience in the delivery of large programmes of work, including the management of organisational change, provision of core computer systems and the outsourcing of services. His interests outside of the Trust include non-executive membership of the national Youth Justice Board since 2013 and both personnel and organisational development work as a consultant.
Mark Bailey, Non-executive Director.
Mark, a former Group Director for Customers and Services at Rolls-Royce plc, joined the Trust in February 2020 and has an extensive background in the private sector having spent over 30 years with the world-renowned engineering company. Originally from Armthorpe in Doncaster, Mark now lives with his family in Ashbourne at the edge of the Peak District in Derbyshire.
Initially trained as an engineer, Mark has extensive experience of operating at senior leadership and board level environments while nurturing a specialist interest in strategic development, business growth and customer service transformation. He has also led the introduction of innovative digital solutions throughout his career, something which is a particular focus for the Trust as it looks to further modernise how clinicians use technology to support patient care.
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