Meet James Hayward

James is a Chartered Engineer by profession, he spent most of his working life in the NHS working as an executive director of estates and facilities in medium and large sized NHS acute Trusts across the country. He joined Scarborough NHS trust in 2009 and helped support the merger with York Teaching Hospital NHS FT in 2014. James fully retired from the NHS in 2020. He has worked on a number of high-profile capital investment projects in recent years. James also served for 23 years in the Royal Navy as a maritime reservist and rose to a senior rank, holding several command and staff positions along the way. 

He has held a number of other non-executive director roles for organisations including the Cambridge Centre (a local drug and alcohol rehabilitation charity) and served as a Trustee of Lady Lumley’s charitable foundation. He is also a non-executive director for the Government Facilities Service Limited and Ministry of Justice owned company, providing maintenance and project delivery for the Prison. 

James joined the organisation in November 2016 having been chair of the legacy organisation Yorkshire Coast Homes.  He is the current chair of the board and a member of the development committee.