People

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Our People

At OSJCT, our people are at the heart of everything we do. From our Home Managers and care teams to our support staff and Trustees, every individual plays a vital role in delivering compassionate, high-quality care across our homes and communities.

Our home and operations teams

The people you meet in our homes are there every day, providing exceptional care and comfort for our residents.

Each home is led by a dedicated Home Manager, supported by professional and friendly teams who ensure residents receive the highest standards of care.

Our Operations team provides leadership and oversight across our homes. Four Assistant Operations Directors work alongside Area Operations Managers and Quality Compliance Managers. They’re supported by our Care Quality team, who monitor standards and provide specialist services, including our in-house Admiral Nurses.

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Support services

Behind the scenes, our support teams help ensure our homes run smoothly.

Based across Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, these teams cover HR & Training, Development, Finance, Marketing & Communications, IT, and Extra Care Housing (ECH). Their expertise enables our care teams to focus on what they do best - caring for our residents.

Directors

The Chief Executive and Executive Directors oversee all the activities of the Trust.

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Dan Hayes OBE

Chief Executive

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Dan Hayes OBE

Chief Executive

Dan is responsible for all aspects of the Trust’s operations on a day to day basis. This includes the care of our residents and tenants, the fulfilment and engagement of all colleagues, and the financial performance of the organisation. It is Dan’s responsibility to plan, implement and direct the Trust’s strategy along with his executive colleagues under the approval of the Board of Trustees. He has a strong belief in lobbying for residents and workers within Social Care who can be overlooked and undervalued by the world at large.

Dan has worked for the Trust for more than 20 years. Initially joining in a HR management role and then progressing through operational and executive positions until being appointed Chief Executive in 2015.

Dan is also a Board Director of the National Care Forum which promotes quality care and maintains contact with government departments and the media to ensure the right messages are heard in the places that matter.

Dan has an active time with his young family, enjoys cycling and is a life-long Manchester City football fan.

Tracey Wardle

Tracey Wardle

Finance and IT Director

Tracey Wardle

Tracey Wardle

Finance and IT Director

Tracey is accountable for ensuring that OSJCT is a sustainable organisation with the financial resources needed to meet our commitments to existing residents, to finance the development of new services and approaches, and to manage financial risk within the Trust. Tracey is also responsible for IT and is accountable for ensuring the IT infrastructure, systems and security are current, sustainable and meet the needs of the business. She is also the Senior Information Risk Officer for the Trust.

Tracey joined OSJCT in March 2017 as interim finance consultant and was appointed to the role of Finance and IT Director in August 2017.

Tracey, a Chartered Management Accountant, has held a variety of senior finance roles across large healthcare providers including the NHS, charities and private equity businesses. Prior to working for OSJCT, Tracey worked as a consultant for six years specialising in management and development of commercial finance teams and delivery of financial results. She holds an MBA from Henley Management College.

Tracey enjoys gardening, skiing and exploring the world. Her favourite destination is Western Australia.

Mike Stredder

Mike Stredder

Operations Director

Mike Stredder

Mike Stredder

Operations Director

Mike is responsible for implementing OSJCT strategy in care homes and ensuring that best practice is followed.

Mike joined OSJCT in Autumn 2020 and has worked in a variety of healthcare sectors in his professional life, most recently as Director of Operations for NHS Blood and Transplant. Previous roles have taken him to pharmacy with Lloyds and Boots and dental health with Oasis Dental Care.

Mike brings great experience of working with CQC and other regulators and he was drawn to the role at OSJCT because of the Trust’s core values, particularly the dedication to caring and having respect for each other.

Outside of work Mike describes himself as ‘sports mad’ and is a keen runner, tennis player and skier. He and his wife, Liz, have three children aged between 18 and 22.

Jacqui Roynon

Jacqui Roynon

Director of People

Jacqui Roynon

Jacqui Roynon

Director of People

Jacqui is Director of People and is responsible for all recruitment and human resources activities at OSJCT.

She joined the Trust in February 2021 and has held a variety of senior HR jobs across the commercial sector including Tesco and Cable and Wireless, and social care organisations Scope and Hft.

One of Jacqui’s professional passions is promoting the importance of the social care workforce to society and pursuing an ambition to ensure that all colleagues are paid Real Living Wage.

Outside of work Jacqui is very keen on sport, primarily playing and watching netball as well as running.

Board of Trustees

The overall governance of the Trust is by a Board of Trustees, who work on a voluntary basis. They establish the values and strategic direction of the Trust and delegate the day to day running to the Chief Executive and Directors.

Our Trustees
  • Mark Everall - Chair

    Mark became a trustee and was appointed chair in 2020.  Mark was a circuit judge and Deputy High Court Judge at the Central Family Court.  He was also a nominated judge of the Court of Protection.  Before being appointed a judge, Mark qualified as a barrister and became a Queen’s Counsel in 1994.  He is a Bencher of the Inner Temple.

  • Graham Hutton - Chair of the Finance Committee

    Graham became an OSJCT Trustee in 2015. He has many years of experience in the financial services industry, working for several prestigious investment banking houses before helping to found Hutton Collins in 2002. Graham is a member of the Finance Committee.

  • Richard Milligan-Manby - Lincolnshire County Trustee

    Richard worked as a futures broker in London before returning to Lincolnshire in the early 90s to become involved in the family farming business. In addition to this he became involved in a number of agricultural cooperatives where he served as a non-executive director, exec and non-exec chairman, a member of the finance, risk and audit committee, as well as a pension trustee. In 2007 he attended Cranfield University to study business management and served as a trustee on the board for the Royal Agricultural Society of England Board till 2017.

  • Dr Anton Borg LVO - Gloucestershire County Trustee

    Anton joined the Board of Trustees in 2022, though he has known the Trust for much longer. Anton has been a GP since September 1986, and has had roles in Obstetrics, Cardiology, Medicine and Dermatology. He is a member of The Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and Malta (SMOM), and has been the pilgrimage doctor since 2000. 

  • Anne de Bono OBE, FRCGP, FRCP, FFOM  - Medical Trustee

    Anne was a general practitioner in Oxford and Edinburgh before training as a specialist in occupational medicine. She is now a consultant at the University Hospitals of  Leicester, leading a large NHS Occupational Health Service  for healthcare staff and students across  Leicestershire and Rutland.  From 2003-2016 she was chief medical officer for the BASMOM Lourdes pilgrimage.

  • Tim Church - Member of the Finance Committee

    Tim retired in December 2016 as president of MIO Partners, Inc. which manages investment programmes for McKinsey & Co's current and former partners, as well as the firm's retirement plans. Tim joined McKinsey in 1991, to start and head up the European investment activity for the firm, taking over the running of the global activity in 1997. Prior to that, he was a director of Advent Ltd, a UK based venture capital firm. He qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse in London and has an honours degree in Engineering Science from the University of Durham. Tim is the former Chairman of The HALO Trust, Chairman of Aid to the Church in Need UK, and on the board of a number of other not for profit and investment related entities.

  • James Macnamara CStJ, FCA - Member of the Finance Committee

    James is a chartered accountant and was formerly finance director of a series of companies in the service sector. In parallel, he has served as a local councillor and magistrate, on various bodies in the Oxford Diocese and as a trustee of a number of charities in the health, military, housing and education sectors. His volunteer service in the reserve army led him to join St John Ambulance and then on to a number of roles in the Venerable Order, who nominated him as a trustee of OSJCT in November 2019.

  • James Kneller OLJ

    James was appointed as an OSJCT trustee in 2020. He has many years’ experience as a Human Resources Director in a number of global organisations both in the UK and abroad including Santander and Commercial Bank of Qatar. James has sat as a non-executive Director in the UK, Middle East and Turkey. James returned to the UK in 2014 founding his own consulting business. He has also sat as a Trustee for a number of large UK Pension Funds.

  • Mark Brenninkmeyer - Oxfordshire County Trustee

    Mark was appointed as the Oxfordshire County Trustee in 2023. Mark has had a long career in retail, both in the UK and USA. He is a member of the Order of Malta, and served as Hospitaller from 2012 to 2018. 

  • Hans Grefte

    Hans joined the Board of Trustees in 2023. He is the founder of iCasework ltd, a software provider to government agencies, charities, health providers and blue-chip companies across the UK, the US and Australia. As managing director of iCasework, he oversaw the successful implementation of hundreds of SAAS and cloud solutions before it was acquired by Civica ltd in 2018. Prior to that, he worked for UK central government departments such as the Home Office, the Department of Transport, and the Ministry of Justice, in a variety of senior IT consultancy roles.

  • Rekha Elaswarapu, M.Stud (Cambridge), MBA (MMS), Ph.D., PGCE, FHEA, FRSA, MIHM

    Rekha joined the Board of Trustees in 2024.  She has over 25 yrs of experience within the health and social care environment, both in policy and regulation. Rekha was the lead for older people strategy for the Healthcare Commission and subsequently for the Care Quality Commission. She also has a considerable experience of board governance as a trustee in the charity sector. Currently her work portfolio consists of lecturer at the University of Sunderland in London, an independent consultant, and an insight expert with the International Longevity Centre (ILC) UK and a dignity advisor.

  • George Roffe-Silvester – Member of the Finance Committee

    George was appointed as Trustee in February 2025. He spent more than 30 years working for international healthcare companies, including Roche and Walgreens Boots Alliance, specialising in Mergers & Acquisitions. He has lived in the Netherlands and Switzerland as well as the UK. Since retiring in 2020 George has volunteered with a local charity providing support for the elderly and isolated across a rural area of Devon and Somerset.

  • Richard Fitzalan Howard

    Richard joined the board in 2005. He moved to the Fremantle board following its acquisition by OSJCT but rejoined the OSJCT board in 2025. He was President of the British Association of Sovereign Order of Malta from 2013-2022. He has spent his 50 year career working for Flemings, the investment management company.

  • Millie Wentworth-Stanley, MA, LLM

    Millie was appointed an OSJCT trustee in 2010 and appointed Deputy Chair in 2015. She is now a trustee with The Fremantle Trust. She is a qualified solicitor and worked for a large City of London law firm before setting up her own niche law practice in 1998 where she specialises in succession planning and mental incapacity planning.

Patrons

OSJCT has two Patrons, each representing one of our sponsoring Orders.  They are:

  • The Earl Ferrers (representing the Order of Malta)
  • Lt-Gen Louis Lillywhite, CB, MBE, OStJ, MFOM, FRCP(Glas), FRCGP (representing the Venerable Order of St John)
Chaplain
  • The Very Reverend Nicholas Frayling KStJ – the former Dean of the St John Priory of England and the Islands
  • Fr. John Osman M.A. S.T.L – Conventual Chaplain of the SMOM and Parish Priest of St Birinus, Dorchester-on-Thames, where he has been for the last twenty eight years.

Join our team

Whether you’re interested in working with us, volunteering, or learning more about our homes, we’d love to hear from you.

Call us on: 0800 988 8133