Central Services Team

The Central Team

A skilled, professional Central Support Team works closely with the Hope Sentamu Learning Trust schools to offer support with day-to-day Operations, Finance, Human Resources and School Improvement. It also implements strategic decisions agreed by the Trustees.

Helen Winn | Chief Executive Officer and Accounting Officer

Originally from the north-east of England, Helen qualified as a teacher after leaving university. Just three years after starting her career in Essex, she became assistant headteacher at a secondary modern, later returning to the north-east for another assistant headteacher role and then a deputy principal role. In a big departure from her vocation, she moved away from teaching in 2009 to become a consultant in the construction sector, helping firms to bid for new contracts.

In 2011, she was approached to do consultancy at Ipswich Academy when it opened. After three years as a consultant, she was appointed as associate principal and relocated to Suffolk in January 2014, before becoming first interim principal and then permanent principal in 2017.

Helen became CEO in September 2020.

Operations, Facilities & Support

Wendy Munro | Chief Operating Officer

Karen Forrester | Trust Operations Manager

Kyle Immanuel | Director of Safeguarding

Tracy Dalleywater | Trust Data and Information Manager

Laura Swan | Executive Support Manager

Joanna Coe | Executive Support Officer

Tommy Ashes | Facilities Lead

Paul Garton | Site Facilities Lead (Hull)

Lauren Oakes | Compliance Officer

Liam Foster | Marketing & Communications Officer

Wendy Munro is the Operations Director and Chief Operating Officer for Hope Sentamu Learning Trust. She brings extensive commercial experience to the role having worked as an Operations Director in the IT industry until 2005 before leaving to start her own business specialising in transforming organisations to implement core systems and procedures to meet industry standard/accreditation.

After her successful time in the commercial sector, Wendy was passionate about bringing her skills and expertise into the education sector where she would be able to have both a positive and moral impact. In 2011, she joined Vale of York Academy as School Business Manager before joining the Central Team as Chief Operating Officer.

At Hope Sentamu Learning Trust, Wendy’s role includes: Strategic development of the operational service offering within the central team; Support to existing schools within the Trust to ensure operational effectiveness; Compliance; Procurement exercises including tendering; Due diligence process; and academy conversions.

Karen is the Trust Operations Manager. Her roles includes: supporting the Chief Operating Officer; providing operational services within the Central Team; supporting the schools within the Trust; overseeing procurement, maintaining safe and healthy work environments by establishing, following and enforcing standards and procedures; complying with legal regulations. Before joining the Central Team, Karen was Premises Manager at Manor CE Academy.

Lauren joined Hope Setamu Learning Trust in November 2022 as their Compliance Officer. Having previously worked in further & higher education supporting students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), and more recently at North Yorkshire Police as a Witness Care Officer, Lauren has extensive experience involving safeguarding vulnerable young people. Lauren is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and will act as lead within the trust for the coordination of compliance and associated governance.

Finance

Simon Bryan-Smith | Chief Finance Officer

Tracey Shaw | Financial Controller

Tania Sinclair | Purchase Ledger Manager

Helen Nozedar | Management Accountant

Michelle Hall | Finance Officer

Jane Mansfield | Finance Officer

Megan Pycroft | Finance Officer

Rhianna Tipping-Wood | Finance Officer

Elanor Hampshire | Procurement and Tender Officer

Callum Fraser | Finance Administrator

Margarita Pavlovets | Finance Administrator

Katarzyna Atchinson | Finance Assistant

Mackenzy Barnes | Finance Assistant

Simon Bryan-Smith has worked within finance and forecasting in different organisations and roles across various business sectors since 1998. Qualifying through the CIMA accountancy route in 2007 Simon accepted the role of Finance Director at the Leeds based charity Caring For Life taking the charity through a period of considerable change. A 2 year contract with Defra followed before taking on the role in Manor CE School just before academy conversion in 2011.

Tania deals with all the Purchase ledger duties for the Trust and is responsible for payments and bank reconciliation for all schools within the Trust. Tania has a vast amount of experience working within Accounting from Military, Private Hospital, Construction to IT software company and holds Qualified Association of Accounting Technician – Level 4.

I have worked in a finance function role since graduating from The University of Humberside in 1995 with a BSc (Hons) in Finance with Business. My most recent role was in the print and technology sector where I worked for 18 years, managing a small finance & payroll team. I have experience in all areas of the finance function, from purchase ledger right through to the preparation of monthly management accounts.

Since completing my AAT level 3 and gaining my AATQB qualification I am also looking to complete my AAT level 4.

Megan joined Hope Sentamu Learning Trust as an Accounts Apprentice, working with the Purchase Ledger Team. She is currently looking forward to training with the team and working towards her AAT qualifications. Prior to joining the Trust, she worked within Retail.

I was born and raised in Scarborough and attended Graham School before moving on to college. I worked in the tourism industry before completing a Business Administration apprenticeship in the Motor Trade where I spent the next 4.5 years working through the different accounting roles and working through the AAT levels. I joined the education sector in May 2021 becoming a Finance Assistant at a Trust in Scarborough before becoming a Finance Officer at HSLT in November 2021. I am looking forward to this next step in my career and also to continuing to develop my accounting skills and knowledge.

Margarita is the Purchase Ledger Clerk for all schools within the Trust and has a Level III Diploma in Manual and Computerised Bookkeeping and is a Member of The Institute of Certified Bookkeepers. Before joining the Trust Margarita spent over 10 years’ working in a biotech company where she managed purchase and sales ledgers.

Human Resources

Mandy Watson | Human Resources Director

Mike Bird | HR Officer

Chris Shepherd | HR Officer

Vicki Wilson | HR Officer

Mandy is the Human Resources Director for Hope Sentamu Learning Trust with duties around driving people management strategy and managing the HR functions across the Trust.

Mandy first became a HR professional in 1994 at a large aerospace manufacturing company. This was followed by eight years as a HR consultant working with small businesses in a variety of sectors before joining Archbishop Sentamu Academy as a HR Manager in 2010. Mandy’s role has grown in line with the expansion of Sentamu Academy Learning Trust and its merger with Hope Learning Trust.

Mandy has been a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development for more than 20 years and shared her passion for Human Resources with CIPD students as a part-time lecturer at Beverley College for a number of years.

Chris is a HR Officer for the Hope Sentamu Learning Trust. Her role includes supporting all the primary and secondary schools within the Trust with disciplinary investigations and hearings, grievances, sickness absence, recruitment and selection, policy and toolkit development, face to face, telephone and written advice and guidance, restructures, TUPE transfers, safeguarding and child protection concerns etc.

Chris joined the Trust in March 2017. Prior to this Chris worked for Wakefield Metropolitan District Council for 14 years supporting schools and services.

Chris has a Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel Management and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology. She is an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Payroll

James Crook | Payroll Manager

Jess Brewer | Payroll Assistant

School Improvement Team

Edward Vickerman | Executive Director of Education

Katherine Humpleby | Director of Teacher Training, Ethos & Church Schools

Sara El Oakley | Trust Associate Principal

Louise Beasley | Trust Associate Principal

Victoria Hobson | Trust Associate Principal

Gavin Kumar | Trust Associate Principal

Heather Wright | Trust Associate Principal

Matthew O'Neill | Director of English (Literacy & EAL)

Jim Kelly | Director of Mathematics

Dave Pollock | Director of Science

Fiona Hunter | Director of SEND

Corrinne Naylor | Trust Reading Lead

Katherine leads on Primary and Secondary teacher training for the Trust, in partnership with York St John University. She works across KS1 to KS5, to support the CEO, headteachers, trustees and governors, regarding the Personal Development framework and development of our wider Trust community links. For our Church schools, Katherine additionally supports Church school distinctiveness including vision and values, collective worship, chaplaincy, social, moral, spiritual and cultural development, the RE curriculum, trustee and governor training and preparation for Section 48 inspections (SIAMS). She liaises at a local level with the Diocese of York and at a national level with the Church of England, on behalf of the Trust.

She is currently undertaking her National Professional Qualification in Executive Leadership and SIAMS inspector training with the Church of England. She achieved her NPQH in and her Masters in Education from Durham University. Katherine has a wide range of experience in 2-19 education, to postgraduate level, to support the Trust. Prior to joining Hope Sentamu Learning Trust, Katherine worked for the Diocese of York as a schools adviser, supporting over 50 schools, across Teesside, North Yorkshire, the city of York, the East Riding and Hull. She has been a Trustee on three Multi-Academy Trust boards, a senior leader across a 2-19 MAT and worked as a head of Geography and Modern Foreign Languages, in former roles, holding a dual subject teaching qualification from Durham University. In her spare time, she is a volunteer mentor for international postgraduate students at Durham University

Jim joined the Trust as Director of Mathematics in September 2018 and has over 20 years of experience working at numerous schools at all levels of mathematics and senior leadership. He works closely within the Secondary Schools Improvement Team to raise the teaching of mathematics standards across the Trust. He supports the schools mathematics leader to identify areas for improvement and provides quality assurance measures. He leads on providing one-on-one support for colleagues who require it and also works closely with ITT maths students within the Trust’s teaching school.

Jim believes passionately in raising standards of education thus enabling all students to achieve so much more than they thought was possible, providing them with the very best of opportunities for their future. Jim is married to Claire and has 3 older teenager girls who provide his support and drive.