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Who We Are
The Ulster Community & Hospitals Trust aims to provide high quality, cost effective healthcare through the provision of regional and local specialised services to patients.
Management Structure
The Trust Board within the Ulster Community & Hospitals Trust is made up of eleven Executive and five Non Executive Directors including the Chairman Mrs S Grant and Chief Executive Mr J McCall.
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Chairman: Mrs S GrantMrs Grant as Chair of the Ulster Community & Hospitals Trust provides leadership and guidance to the Non Executive Directors of the Trust. She chairs the bi-monthly Trust Board meeting and the Trust remuneration committee. |
Chief Executive: Mr J McCallRoles and Responsibilities of Chief Executive To lead and direct the Trust to ensure delivery of efficient and effective health and social services within allocated resources and the policies and practices of sound corporate governance. The Chief Executive is the Trust’s accountable officer to DHSSPS for all matters relating to the performance of the Trust and the discharge or delegated statutory functions. |
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The Executive Directors:
Medicine: Dr M McKinney
Role and Responsibilities of Medical Director
The role of Medical Director is to oversee the medical staff in the Trust. This covers appraisal and assessment, job-planning, recruitment, service delivery, clinical governance, risk management and training and development. I also share responsibility for Medical Devices.
Acute Services: Mr S McGoran
Roles and Responsibilities of Director of Acute Services
As a member of the Trust Board the Director of Acute Services contributes to the development of corporate strategies for the organisation. The Director of Acute Services is the budget holder for Acute Services and is operationally responsible for the delivery of clinical services across all the clinical directorates (General Medicine, Care of the Elderly, General Surgery, Specialist Surgery, Woman and Child Health, Anaesthetics Theatres and Critical Care, Patient Services and Clinical Diagnostics). The Director of Acute Services is also Lead Director for all access targets within Acute Services.
Social Services: Mr C Worthington
Roles and Responsibilities of Director of Social Care
Responsible for provision of advice and assistance to the Trust in delivering its policies and strategies for Personal Social Services and for delivering these policies and strategies. Ensuring professional Social Care standards are maintained in the delivery of services
Nursing, Primary Care & Quality: Mrs V Jackson
Responsibilities of Director of Nursing and Quality & Effectiveness
To provide professional leadership and direction to nurses and AHP's across the Trust.
To set the strategic direction for primary care including public health and health promotion in the Trust and to provide leadership across the Trust in respect of the clinical governance agenda, quality & complaints.
Mental Health & Learning Disability Services: Mr B Mullen
Roles and Responsibilities of Director of Mental Health
To provide advice, direction and leadership for Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Dentistry. Also has lead responsibility for Corporate Governance and Risk Management.
Corporate Services & Trust Secretary: Mr J Symington
Roles and Responsibilities of Corporate Services
To lead and direct the full range of Corporate Services ranging from Facilities Management to Estate Services. Is also the Trust Board Secretary.
Finance & ICT: Mr P Cummings
Roles and Responsibilities of Director of Finance
Responsible for providing financial management support to the Chief Executive and Trust Board ensuring the Trust complies with fiduciary responsibility. Also provides a range of finance services encompassing budgetary control, budgetary performance costing and pricing, the development and use of financial management information.
Human Resources & Communications: Mr H McPoland
Roles and Responsibilities of Director of Human Resources and Communications
To provide strategic HR and Equality advice to the Trust Board, EMT and to manage the provision of a full range of HR services to the Trust’s employees and managers. Also responsible for the management of the Trust Public Relations function and the delivery of the Trust’s Equality Scheme.
Planning & Performance Management: Mr K Drayne
Roles and Responsibilities of Head of Planning and Performance Management
To provide advice, guidance and high level advice on Service Planning, Performance Management and business related issues. To manage the planning and performance management process. Has responsibility for the development and utilisation of activity related information systems and services.
Capital Development (Ulster Hospital): Ms J Welsh
Roles and Responsibilities of Director of Capital Development
(Capital Development Project Director, Ulster Hospital)
The main role of this post is to lead the overall Strategic Capital Development Programme for the Ulster Hospital.
Responsibilities include developing project management and monitoring arrangements; co-ordinating and directing the site development programme; directing the planning, design, construction and commissioning of each of the capital schemes; ensuring that each scheme is delivered to time and budget; incorporating modernisation by ensuring that building projects facilitate new ways of delivering healthcare; developing arrangements for the involvement of staff, staff organisations, the public and other interested parties; and ensuring that all capital projects are delivered in a way that minimises disruption and does not undermine service delivery.
The Non-Executive Directors:
Non Executive Directors are chosen for the range of skills and knowledge they are able to bring to the task of providing health and social services to the Ulster Community & Hospitals Trust Catchment area. The Non Executive Directors are:
Mrs M Smith
Chair of the Trust Complaints Committee. She has been a leading role in the more focused approach being taken on monitoring trends to facilitate continual learning from situations which contribute to complaints.
Prof P Hepper
Leads the Trust’s Governance and Risk Management Committees which provide essential functions in identifying and managing risks and ensuring the best practice on social and clinical care is offered to all patients and staff of the Trust.
Ms J Allen
Plays an active role in the Trust’s corporate parenting sub group which produces 2 reports annually to the Trust Board.
Like any parent, the Trust Board has a responsibility to provide all the support it can to enable each of the children in its care to realise their full potential in life.
The Trust continually strives to minimise challenges and ensure our young people have a safe and supportive home in which to develop their individual talents
Mr G Mackey
Member of the Audit Committee which oversees the review of financial controls and compliance assurance standards. The committee approve action plans to rectify any weaknesses and check that action has been taken.
To view the complete Management Organisation Chart please click here
The Trust Board is accountable to the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety for the formulation of health and social care strategies in line with regional policy. It supervises their implementation, evaluates performance and maintains accountability and is responsible for achieving financial targets.
The Trust Board is committed to ensuring that its work should be made as transparent as possible and as such all meetings are held in public.
Partnerships
One organisation on its own, cannot produce the effective and substantive change which is required, thus it is vital to work in partnership with other government agencies, voluntary organisations, private sector organisations and local communities.
The Trust is committed to the development of a community development approach, based on the needs of groups of people sharing similar needs, as well as geographical pockets of need. Because of the clear link between social and economic factors and levels of death and disease, it is important that all agencies who provide health, social care and community services, should work together to tackle the needs of disadvantaged individuals, groups and communities.
Wellnet operates the Investing For Health Partnership in the Northern Ireland Eastern Health and Services Board Area ( www.wellnet-ni.com)
Corporate Governance
Includes the following: Register of Interests, Establishment Orders, Standing Orders, Standing Financial Instructions, Delegation of Statutory Functions, Scheme of Delegation, Codes of Conduct for Chair/Board Members/Chief Executive and other Senior Officers. Details are available for inspection at by contacting:
Chief Executives Office |
Health & Care Centre |
Regent Street |
Newtownards |
BT23 4AD |
Tel: 028 9151 2201 |
To find out up to date information about the trust, look in our Annual Report. Copies of previous years annual reports can be found in the Published Information section of this site.
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Ulster Community & Hospitals Trust Contact Numbers |
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Standing Orders |
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Declaration of Board Members Interests |
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Establishment Orders |
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Standing Financial Instructions |
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Corporate Governance |
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Consultant Directory 2006 |