Our Executive team

Dr Vivienne McVey joined St Andrew’s Healthcare in August 2022 as Chief Executive.

She originally qualified as a doctor and worked as a full time GP before taking on a clinical leadership role within the NHS as Executive Chair of Chiltern and South Bucks Primary Care Trust. She left general practice in 2006 to help found a business, now known as the HCRG Care Group, providing transformational health and care services in the community on behalf of the NHS and local authorities.

Vivienne’s medical background and distinguished track record for building and running large, successful healthcare organisations will be key in supporting the ongoing improvement in the quality of care we provide for our patients and in helping the Charity innovate and develop the new services patients need. The work she has done in partnership with a wide variety of NHS organisations and Local Authorities will be invaluable as we expand our community-based services and deliver the exciting plans we have in both education and research.

Dr Sanjith Kamath has been a Consultant Psychiatrist since 2007, working in both the NHS and the private sector before joining St Andrew's Healthcare in 2012. He has an interest in service development and is also a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. He also has a MBA.

Sanjith became Clinical Director for the Women’s Mental Health Pathway in 2015 and has been involved in developing new services including establishing our Women’s Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) last year. He was heavily involved in implementing outcomes driven, value-based healthcare across the charity, leading to his appointed as Executive Medical Director in 2018.

Appointed as a Trustee: 1 May 2018.

Dawn Chamberlain began her role as Chief Operating Officer in September 2022 having worked for NHS England as Director for Clinical Improvement.

A former Occupational Therapist, Dawn has extensive experience leading transformation and service improvement across all aspects of health and social care.

Previous roles in the NHS include London Productivity Director at NHS Improvement, Chief Operating Officer at South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust and Assistant Director Inpatient and Therapy Services at Brent Community Services.

Adam joined St Andrew's Healthcare in August 2023 as our Business Development Director. He has more than 20 years' experience working across the Life Sciences, Health and Social Care sector in a variety of commercial leadership roles including the Priory Group, Nuffield Health, BMI Healthcare and Elder.

He brings extensive knowledge of developing new services and generating long term growth and value for organisations.

In his role he will be responsible for leading growth across the Charity including our clinical services and education and research teams while supporting St Andrew's on delivering its mission.

He also leads on ensuring we have the right services to meet the complex needs of people and driving strategic development of new services across both inpatients and community settings, while also building strong partnerships across the wider health system.

Kevin joined St Andrew’s Healthcare during the height of the pandemic in May 2020, navigating his way in the new role as Finance Director during an extremely challenging period for healthcare. He quickly became familiar with the complexities, financial and operational challenges both within the charity and across the mental health sector.

Kevin has worked in the financial sector for 25 years, having started out as a trainee accountant. Since then he has continuously progressed and held various Senior Finance positions and prior to joining St Andrew’s Healthcare he was Finance Director at Maximus Ltd, an organisation helping people access health, employment and disability services.

Alex joined St Andrew’s Healthcare as Director of Estates & Facilities in June 2018. He is responsible for estates and asset strategy, hard and soft facilities management, project delivery and service delivery improvement.

A Chartered Surveyor, Alex has held senior roles within medical organisations including Nuffield Health, Virgin Care and BUPA Care Services. In addition he has worked at infrastructure businesses including Manchester Airports Group where he sat on the Divisional Executive Board of the Estates and Development arm.

Stacey has more than 20 years’ experience in Recruitment and Human Resources roles. She began her career in Recruitment working with a range of financial services and retail organisations, before moving into Generalist HR roles and working in central government, where she was involved with and oversaw a number of large scale change programmes.

Stacey joined St Andrew’s Healthcare in 2014 and has held various roles in HR including HR Business Partner and Head of Reward.

Stacey stepped into the role of Acting Director of HR in August 2023.

As well as overseeing HR initiatives across the Charity, Stacey’s current area of focus is working with her team to develop and aligning the Charity’s People Plan with the Charity strategy.

Originally qualifying as a Chartered Accountant and working across global organisations Anna joined St Andrew’s Healthcare in late 2019. This deliberate step into healthcare was driven by Anna’s desire to be part of a team dedicated to helping people transform their lives.

Anna spent the early part of her career at PwC working in Assurance. She then moved into the car industry working at Audi and the wider Volkswagen Group. Anna built a depth of experience across a variety of roles; business improvement, people development and innovation.

Having joined St Andrew’s Healthcare as Deputy Director of Operations, Anna was swiftly promoted to Director of Performance. She oversees the Charity’s Integrated Performance Framework - supporting the achievement of the organisation’s strategic and operating goals by measuring, monitoring and enabling improvement across; quality, workforce, finance and support services.

In addition to being the Chief Quality Officer for St Andrew’s Healthcare, Ash is also a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, with 19 years experience working in secure care, across all levels of adult security with also extensive experience in adolescent secure services.

A clinical member of the NHSE Adult Secure Clinical Reference Group, Ash also has 13 years experience in clinical and medical management leadership positions. He also holds an MBA from Henley Business School and is a member of the Chartered Management Institute.

His passion lies in clinical governance and quality improvement, use of data and informatics to improve quality and value in healthcare, and patient safety in organisations.