Bradford District and Craven Mind is run by a dedicated group of volunteer trustees who guide the charity’s direction and make sure the management team stay on track.
Transcript of Karen’s video below:
Hello, my name is Karen and I’m a trustee here at Bradford District and Craven Mind. I became a trustee last year, you might want to know why I decided to do that. Well, it’s quite simple, I felt that I wanted to give something back and get involved in something beyond my day job.
It’s what I do in my day job that allows me to bring those skills to the board at BDC Mind.
So, I’m Chief Nurse at Bradford Teaching Hospitals, I’m a children’s nurse by background and I’ve got now too many years experience around caring, quality, governance and nursing. All of those things are skills that I can bring to the board. I’ve also got quite an expert knowledge in safeguarding, which is essential when dealing with any public body organisation.
So again, why BDC Mind? Well, mental health is something that impacts on all of us to some lesser or greater degree.
I want to make sure is that there’s someone always there to listen when somebody’s having their worst possible day.
I think that BDC Mind is an excellent organisation with a host of opportunities and facilities and resources available for anybody that would care to use them, and will bring a little bit of something extra special to the people of Bradford. Also making sure that we’re able to be our very best versions of ourselves.
Karen’s biography
Karen is the appointed Chief Nurse at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since August 2016, prior to this Karen has worked in Executive roles in three Hospitals and has over 15 years of experience at Board level. An experienced nurse and service manager, she started her career as a paediatric nurse at Manchester Children’s Hospital before moving into general management and transformational work.
Karen enjoys not just working and leading services at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust but also a wider role across the Bradford District and Craven Place. Karen has a reputation for delivering, developing and initiating high quality services. She is passionate about patient quality and the impact that well-led and motivated staff have on the care we are able to give to patients.
She was named in the inaugural list of Health Service Journal’s LGBT leaders and takes a keen and active interest in the equality and diversity agenda. She is passionate about ensuring that people receive appropriate, targeted and holistic health care to enable people to be as healthy as they can be.
Posted on: 20th May 2025
Hello, my name is Karen and I’m a trustee here at Bradford District and Craven Mind. I became a trustee last year, you might want to know why I decided to do that. Well, it’s quite simple, I felt that I wanted to give something back and get involved in something beyond my day job.
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