Children's Hospice South West
Rich Painter currently serves as the Deputy Director of Care at Children's Hospice South West, a position held since January 2024. Prior experience includes multiple roles at Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, from January 2018 to February 2024, primarily as Director of Safeguarding, where Rich led an integrated safeguarding service for adults and children, emphasizing a 'Think Family' approach across health services in Somerset. Earlier roles at Dorset Council UK involved managing children’s centers and improving a failing children’s home to achieve an 'Outstanding' inspection. Rich has a robust background in social work and safeguarding, starting their career at Hampshire County Council in the late 1980s, and has garnered various qualifications, including a Nye Bevan Award in Executive Leadership from the NHS Leadership Academy.
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Children's Hospice South West
Children’s Hospice South West cares for families with children and young people who have a life-limiting or life-threatening condition, who are unlikely to live to adulthood. At our three beautiful children’s hospices in Devon, Cornwall and Bristol, we support parents, brothers and sisters and the affected child from diagnosis towards bereavement and beyond. We can relieve the burden of caring for a sick child from families and allow them to spend precious time together focusing on just being a family. To face the reality of losing your child means those who desperately need our help face an uncertain and fragile future. We walk alongside them providing respite care, palliative and ultimately end of life care for their child. We need to raise just under £12 million a year to run our three hospices. The money that we receive from the Government is not guaranteed each year, therefore we need to rely entirely on voluntary contributions to safeguard our service into the future. Registered Charity No 1003314