Lesley Crosby

Lesley joined Connect in August 2022 as Director of Nursing, Clinical Governance and Risk as well as Director of Infection Prevention and Control. Lesley qualified as a nurse in 1989, specialising in Emergency Department Nursing and since leaving the clinical area has worked in many roles including Director of Operations and Nursing for a private hospital in turnaround and well as Associate Director of Governance in a large London Trust. Lesley has worked in multiple acute Trusts, private healthcare and more recently within an Integrated Care System.

The majority of the roles Lesley has undertaken have had governance as their focus including a secondment to NHS E/I undertaking turnaround. Lesley’s most recent job was a Senior Clinical Lead and Workforce Lead for the COVID-19 vaccination programme covering three counties.

Lesley maintains her nursing qualification and firmly believes in a ‘Board to Floor’ approach to management that empowers and includes all members of the muti professional team.