Senior Management Team
Our Senior Management Team lead the day-to-day running of the Hospice. They also provide motivation and leadership to the people who work and volunteer here, so that we can provide the highest standards of care.

Dr Rachel Black
Chief Executive Officer
Dr Black joins St Joseph’s Hospice from the Orpheus Centre where she was CEO for over 5 years. A registered nurse, Rachel was Director of Care at Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice following service with Demelza Hospice Care for Children which included leading clinical education and nurse consultancy. Rachel has lectured and examined at a number of universities since 1995.

Jane Naismith
Director of Clinical Services and Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Jane Naismith is a registered general nurse with over 20 years’ specialist palliative care experience, starting as a Community Palliative Care Nurse Specialist and progressing to Palliative Care and End of Life Education Lead.
Before joining St Joseph’s Hospice as Nurse Consultant, Jane held various Senior Nurse posts at Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust, including Matron and Lead Nurse for Palliative. She has a BSc (hons) in Palliative Care, an MSc in Advancing Professional Education and Practice in Palliative Care, an MSc in Healthcare Leadership, and a Senior Healthcare Leadership Award from the NHS leadership academy. She is passionate about community nursing and is a Queen’s Nurse.

Andrew Tysoe-Calnon
Medical Director
Andrew trained at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, qualifying in 1996. After general medical training and postgraduate exams he spent four years on a Specialist Training Program for Palliative Medicine in the North Thames region of London. On completion of the program he became a consultant and over the past 10 years has worked as a consultant and lead consultant both in London and Kent.
Andrew originally came to St Joseph’s Hospice as a locum consultant in November 2018 but soon realised that he wanted to stay so that he could continue to build strong relationships with staff, patients and families from our local communities. Andrew brings his experience and leadership skills to his new role as Medical Director whilst maintaining his clinical practice on the wards.

David French
Director of Finance, Facilities & IT
I have developed my career in healthcare by focusing on delivery of outstanding patient care through ensuring the organisations I have led are financially sustainable. I believe that finance is simple and built on trust – I’m transparent, open and hopefully concise with my messages.
I’ve been fortunate to be involved with some exciting projects and personally pioneered the model of cardiac Cath labs partnerships now prevalent across the NHS. I am considered a subject matter expert by global healthcare companies, but modesty prevents me from confirming this.
I’ve also been fortunate to work for, and with, a number of great organisations including King Edward VII’s Hospital, Medtronic, The Cardinal Hume Centre and Abbott and these experiences are driving me to continue to honour the reputation and long history of St Joseph’s by trying to make it even better. Who wouldn’t want the opportunity to lead the Finance, Facilities and IT departments at this Hospice? Whether it’s enhancing our gardens, reducing energy consumption or ensuring our housekeepers have state of the art equipment, outstanding patient care is always the focus and fortunately that is non-negotiable at St Joseph’s.
I’m proud to be a graduate of the London School of Economics, a fellow of the ACCA body of accountants and to hold an open university MBA. My passion for Arsenal remains as strong as ever after 45 years; ditto Welsh rugby. Music is a source of inspiration to me and when I need a lift no need to look any further than Sparks’ brilliant album, Kimono My House. Every Director of Finance should have a copy.

Tracey Macbeth
Director of Communications and Enterprise
Tracey Macbeth has more than 20 years’ experience as a business leader in the private sector, specialising in business and communications strategy. She’s been a senior adviser to numerous organisations both in the UK and worldwide in the health and wellbeing, charitable and FMCG sectors, providing expertise in business transformation, reputation management and PR & digital communications. She’s led a number of change programmes for St Joseph’s Hospice as part of the leadership team, before stepping into the Interim Chief Executive post. Tracey’s new responsibilities are to lead communications across the Hospice, spanning IT, Information, Reception & Security, and the Communications team, as well as heading up the new Enterprise strand of the organisation.

Janet Simkins
HR Director
Janet Simkins is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD with over 20 years HR experience in the not for profit sector. She has worked with a wide range of local, regional and national charities spanning youth and homelessness services and health and social care, including a mental health and learning disabilities services provider. Janet is a qualified mediator and is licensed to administer and interpret a range of psychometric instruments which she uses to assist people to maximise their natural gifts in the work place. In addition to this, Janet is a qualified Designated Safeguarding Officer.
Janet has a keen interest in employment law, organisational development, employee engagement and delivering sustainable ethical solutions for organisations.

Carolyne Barber
Head of Mission
Carolyne is a registered nurse with over 26 years’ experience in palliative care and has worked and taught in many settings within the NHS, the Developing World and St Joseph’s Hospice.
In the early part of her career, Carolyne spent 7 years working with and caring for people with HIV/ AIDS and other life limiting diseases in Romania, Honduras, Guatemala and Uganda. Part of her role within this field involved developing and delivering palliative care education for nurses and other clinical staff, some of which was in collaboration with the Tropical Health Education Trust (THET).
Carolyne then worked for many years in the NHS before joining St Joseph’s Hospice. She has a BSc (Hons) in Oncology and MA in Academic Practice. Carolyne is passionate about Specialist Palliative Care, especially its philosophy of empowering people to live as well as they can through the delivery of holistic care.
