Jo Emmanuel
Non-Executive Director
Jo Emmanuel joined the Board in January 2025.
Jo is a consultant psychiatrist who has worked for over 30 years within the NHS in both community and in-patient settings.
She was Medical Director within Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust until 2021 when she moved to St Leonard’s on Sea where she has recently become a school governor. Jo has a particular interest in Clinical Ethics and co-founded the first Clinical Ethics Committee in Mental Health in the UK which she continues to co-chair.
Jo is also an experienced medical trainer and a trained coach and continues to utilise these skills in ongoing consultancy and career development work.
Board of directors
- Joss Bigmore, Chair
- Louise Stead, Group Chief Executive
- Angela McNab, Deputy Chair and Non-Executive Director
- Tamara Everington, Managing Director and Chief Medical Officer
- Liz Blackburn, Acting Chief Nursing Officer
- Ross Dunworth, Interim Chief Finance Officer
- Jagjit Dosanjh-Elton, Non-Executive Director
- Jo Emmanuel, Non-Executive Director
- Nick Page, Non-Executive Director
- Kalee Talvitie-Brown, Non-Executive Director
- Vivek Chaudhri, Associate Non-Executive Director
- Aleema Shivji, Associate Non-Executive Director
- Helen Edmunds, Chief People Officer (non-voting director)
- Kathy Brasier, Acting Chief Strategy Officer (non-voting director)
- Jamie O'Callaghan, Interim Company Secretary
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