Nursing & Midwifery Council makes key appointments to executive team

The Nursing & Midwifery Council has appointed Lise-Anne Boissiere and Ruth Bailey as Directors of People and Organisational Effectiveness to its executive team on a job-share basis.

Together they will be responsible for ensuring the organisation runs well, with quality people and processes focused on continuous improvement.

Lise-Anne and Ruth bring with them a wealth of executive experience across a range of corporate disciplines including people, change, governance and strategy .

They have worked together for the last couple of years at the Department of Levelling up, Housing and Communities leading the organisation’s response to Covid-19 and Brexit.  
 
Over the last five years, Lise-Anne has been the Director for Strategy and Private Offices at the Department responsible for Local Government, Housing and Communities and most recently led a short-term project on the operating model required to deliver on Levelling Up, before taking five months off to travel.

Prior to this, Lise-Anne worked in senior leadership roles in the UK Civil Service on equality and human rights, housing, tourism and media.     

Ruth has most recently been working as an HR consultant nationally and internationally and as a non-Executive Director for Hertfordshire and West Essex & South West London Integrated Care Boards.

Prior to this Ruth was HR Director at the Department responsible for Local Government, Housing and Communities, the Care Quality Commission and the Cabinet Office.    

NMC Chief Executive and Registrar Andrea Sutcliffe said: “Lise-Anne and Ruth are outstanding leaders who’ll bring a wealth of strategic management experience to bear at the NMC.

“To have just one of them join us would be a huge asset, so to be able to welcome them both is incredibly exciting.

“Together they’ll play a vital role. We’ve set ourselves 22 goals to achieve by 2025, and we can only do this by creating a working environment that enables all our colleagues to thrive.

“This means one founded on our values of fairness, kindness, ambition and collaboration, enabled by the right capabilities and ways of working, and underpinned by our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

“I look forward to working with Lise-Anne and Ruth toward these goals and creating a truly fit-for-the-future NMC.”