Rye, Winchelsea and District Memorial Hospital Ltd is a charity that traces its history back to 1921 when the original Community Hospital was built after the First World War. In 1984 the Hospital was closed by the NHS after the opening of the Conquest District General Hospital in St Leonards. A new Hospital was built and opened in 1994 after intense campaigning and fund raising in the local community. The NHS has returned as a committed tenant of the charity to provide Intermediate Care. Through acquisition and ground leasing a 7,500 patient GP practice was built and opened in 2010, a 55 unit extra care facility was refurbished and modernised in 2015 and a 5500 sq ft Wellbeing Centre built by the Charity in 2020. The final development of a 60 bed Care Home is anticipated in the near future. In all this provides an exceptional range of facilities within the Charity’s freehold (known as the Memorial Care Centre) for the benefit of Rye and the Rural Rother community.
The Hospital and its Charity have a strong bond with the community and it now has the resources to broaden its outreach program and deliver a wide range of community health and wellbeing services, identified through its needs analysis. It seeks a Chief Financial Officer to strengthen the quality of its administrative framework and bring new skills to enhance the services so necessary in the community at a time when public services have become so depleted.
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