Sarah Goodson

Sarah has more than 25 years' experience in the NHS, most recently at NHS East of England, where she was responsible for talent management and leadership development. This work included facilitation and support of the implementation of the East of England NHS Talent and Leadership plan, the High Potential Executive Development programme, and Non Executive Director and Chair development.

In addition Sarah supported the work of the East of England Commissioning Directorate where she led leadership and organisational development interventions for emerging clinical commissioning groups.

Sarah has a clinical background, working in hospital pharmacy after qualifying in 1987. In her role as Director of the South East Regional Pharmacy Education and Training Team she was involved in developing extended roles and professional registration for pharmacy support staff at a national level.

In 2002 Sarah moved into the field of workforce development, working for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight strategic health authority. Here she focused on new ways of working, associate practitioner development and the widening participation agenda. Sarah was also seconded to the National Workforce Review Team as part of the review of ambulance service workforce development

Sarah has held several senior roles across the NHS in a range of organisations at both an operational and a strategic level. She is qualified at Level B Intermediate Plus in British Psychological Society psychometric testing and is also accredited with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.