Jean Ford joined the NHS Ayrshire & Arran Board in April 2019. Prior to joining the Board Jean had an extensive and successful career in banking, holding senior roles in Bank of Scotland, HBoS, Lloyds Banking Group and TSB. She has a track record of delivering complex projects on time and within budget and in recent years has played key roles in major change and business transformation programmes as part of the mergers of Bank of Scotland and Halifax, HBoS and Lloyds Banking Group and in the building of TSB. She has also managed branches, a corporate banking area and performed several executive office, board secretariat, risk management and audit roles. She brings an extensive and flexible set of technical, specialist and general management skills to apply in her non-executive role.
Jean thrives on a challenge, seeks continuous business, people and self-improvement, the latter of which is evidenced through recent acquisitions of an Open University degree in Social Sciences with Economics and an International Certificate in Risk Management. She is very excited by the opportunity her appointment presents to contribute to the ongoing success of NHS Ayrshire & Arran, its staff and the community it serves.
Jean is a member of Audit Committee and Healthcare Governance Committee. She is a Non-Executive member on both the East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire Integration Joint Boards and through the IJBs she is also a member of both East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire Performance and Audit committees.