Welcome to our Board
The Board is accountable for our vision, strategy, operational management, and financial decisions. We have a unitary Board which consists of fifteen Board Members including the Chair, seven voting Non -Executive Directors, and seven voting Executive Directors.
Executive Directors
Our Executive Directors are responsible for the day to day management of the Trust and are also part of the Board. They are lead by the Chief Executive.
Non-Executive Directors
Non-Executive Directors ensure that the Board acts in the best interests of our patients and community. They are appointed based on thier skill and experience for a specific term.
Trust Chair
The Trust Chair, who is a Non-Executive Director holds a dual role as Chair of the Board of Directors as well as the Council of Governors. This means that the Chair is responsible for leading both the Board and the Council of Governors to ensure that they are working together effectively.
Additionally, the Board also includes a Deputy Chair who deputises for the Chair when appropriate and a Senior Independent Director (SID) who is appointed by the Board made in consultation with the Council of Governors. The SID should act as the point of contact with the Board of Directors if Governors have concerns which approaches through normal channels have failed to resolve or for which such approaches are inappropriate. The SID may also act as the point of contact with the Board for Governors when they discuss for example the Chair's performance.
The Board works closely with our Council of Governors who represents the views of our local community.
Contacting the Board
All Board members may be contacted via the Corporate Governance Team via Corporate.meeting@swast.nhs.uk, South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, Abbey Court, Eagle Way, Exeter, EX2 7HY.
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Amy Beet
Executive Director of People / Deputy Chief Executive (currently on Maternity Leave)
Amy has worked in HR within the NHS since 2003, commencing her NHS career with Weston Area Healthcare Trust and later working for Gloucester Hospitals Foundation Trust before moving to join the Ambulance sector in 2012 as Deputy Director of HR and OD. Prior to this Amy had a career in advertising, focusing specifically on the recruitment market, developing candidate attraction strategies for a range of high profile national and international clients.
Amy has a Masters in HR Strategy and Management from University of the West of England Business School and is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. Amy joined the South Western Ambulance Foundation Trust Board 2018 as Executive Director of People. Amy is responsible for the people function of the organisation, including education and health and wellbeing services and is the Executive Lead for Freedom to Speak Up.
A passionate advocate for cultural development through organisational design and development, Amy has a wealth of experience in delivering comprehensive programmes of change and development to deliver improved employee experience, business productivity and improved performance. During her HR career Amy has led the delivery of recruitment, employee relations and education services and significant programmes of organisational development work, including workforce redesign and transformation.
Amy acts as a mentor to a number of individuals from a variety of roles from both within and external to the organisation and participates in national programmes of work for the Ambulance sector and NHS and on occasions, for the wider HR professional network.