Sarah Padmore (Vice Chair)

Sarah is an experienced public sector leader with over 20 years of service in the NHS. Sarah has held various roles throughout her career including Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Commissioning across the health sector.

Sarah’s working passion is based around people, partnerships and collaboration. Her experience of bringing people and strategies together has seen many new ventures across health and social care succeed.

Sarah has in-depth experience of board-level governance and business development her leadership skills have enabled her to build strong teams and become a great listener with a high degree of self-awareness.

Sarah also volunteers for a small Mental Health charity and has served as a school governor for the past 10 years.

Sarah believes that it is people that make positive change happen and create opportunities for others and it is this reason why Sarah is looking forward to working with Nugent to help shape an organisation that serves the most vulnerable in society.