Subject to regulatory approval, Darlington will join Tenet and take over the role in July this year.

Darlington is a compliance professional whose most recent role was with Quilter Financial Planning, prior to which she was compliance director at CAERUS Financial.

Mark Scanlon, chief executive at Tenet, said: “We are delighted to welcome Julie to Tenet and are looking forward to her continuing the development and implementation of Tenet’s compliance transformation project, which has been reviewing the end-to-end compliance journey for our members.

“Caroline will remain in post until an appropriate handover has been conducted. She has been a fundamental driver of the business since she joined in 2012, and has become a well-known and respected industry leader in her time at Tenet.

“We wish Caroline every success in her forthcoming endeavours.”