Ian O’Connor
Ian O’Connor has been appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer.
Trust Board
Jayne Black
Jayne Black started as Chief Executive on 7 April 2025. Jayne has more than 30 years of experience in the health sector. A nurse by background, prior to her previous role of Chief Executive at Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Jayne was Chief Operating Officer at University Hospitals Sussex Foundation Trust from 2018 and, before this,…
Amber Lee
Amber Lee joined the trust as associate Non-Executive Director on 9 September 2024. Amber joined the board after a long career in clinical research, working within large pharma and during the last 20 years in the Clinical Research Organisation sector. She started her career as a nurse and moved through project and process management, quality…
Ama Agbeze
A large part of Ama’s career has been spent as a professional athlete culminating in captaining Team England to netball gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She was recently a board member for the 2022 Games in Birmingham. Alongside sport, Ama has worked as a lawyer in a variety of disciplines including family, corporate, charity…
Frank Sims
Frank lives in Seaford and has spent over 30 years in the NHS, including working as a Chief Executive for acute and community providers as well as NHS commissioners. He is driven by a desire to improve care and the experience for patients. Frank has worked in the social enterprise movement and discovered the importance…
Charlotte O’Brien
Charlotte joined the trust as Director Transformation and Improvement in 2022 before moving into her current role. She was previously Director of Strategic Partnerships at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, supporting the development of its role as the lead provider for a number of specialist provider collaboratives, developing the Sussex ICS Mental Health Collaborative Programme…
Amanda Fadero
Amanda had an extensive and varied career in the NHS for over 40 years. She held a number of senior executive roles in the NHS working as Chief Executive of NHS Sussex, Area Director for NHS England for Surrey and Sussex and as Deputy/Interim Chief Executive at a large University Hospital. During her career she…
Steve Aumayer
Steve is an experienced HR Director who, after starting has career as a Royal Naval Officer has held a number of senior leadership roles in Healthcare and across other sectors. His healthcare experience includes Executive Director of Human Recourses and Organisational Development at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Executive Director of Organisational Development and…
Richard Milner
Richard has previously held senior positions at several NHS Trusts in London covering community, mental health and the acute sector. He has worked predominantly in operations and service improvement, and brings his experience of leading transformation programmes to improve care for patients. His interests are technology-enabled change and working across organisational boundaries to improve care…
Carys Williams
Carys Williams is a portfolio non-executive director and currently an independent lay member of the House of Commons Committee on Standards, the Welsh Government Board, Premiership Rugby’s Sporting Commission and the Independent Betting Adjudication Service (IBAS). She is also chair of Age UK East Sussex and a non-executive director of East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.…