Our leadership
Rachel Kelso
Founder / Managing Director
Rachel became a homecare worker in 2018 and founded Homecare Voices in 2023, setting out to connect with other homecare workers in the hope of doing something useful with their shared insights.
Rachel is determined to see an end to contact-time only pay in homecare, putting an end to decades of pay injustice and laying the groundwork for a social care workforce that is robust enough to meet society's needs.
Rachel is also passionate about the need to prioritise the social and emotional wellbeing of people who are used to spending the vast majority of their time at home, and; the need for working age adults to consider and prepare for their preferred living and support arrangements in later life or ill-health, now.
Hannah Reseigh-Lincoln
Director
Hannah left the corporate world behind for a purposeful, flexible, hands-on role in homecare. As is the case for so many people in our network for whom homecare is not their first career, Hannah found fulfilment in her work like never before but over time came to a place of disbelief about how homecare workers are treated.
Hannah is a vocal and tireless advocate for improvements across the board in adult social care through her work with Homecare Voices and the Care Workers' Charity, somehow fitting this in whilst maintaining full-time hours as a support worker and being a mum of two!
Kyly Richardson
Director
Kyly worked in retail before entering the world of adult social care, first at a specialist residential care home for people with dementia and then finding her feet in homecare. Kyly is keen to see an alternative to the pervasive 'time-and-task' approach to care planning which has the tendency to reduce whole nuanced human beings to a list of tasks despite all of the complexities that come with daily life.
Kyly prides herself on keeping an organised 'car office' and is the brain behind our 'positive Friday' posts which have been putting smiles on faces for a long time now.
Dr Mark Wilberforce
Director
I am a social care researcher and have spent much of the last twenty years studying important questions about the care workforce.
My PhD was about the origins of person-centred care, what it *really* means in the home support of older people. I have also developed and evaluated the Curious about Care platform to help people to understand the nature of person-centred care work, and to see how well their values suit the role.
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My role as a voluntary non-executive director of Homecare Voices is to help it to achieve its mission by offering advice, guidance, and to check it is being well-run. My role is independent of my work at the University of York.
Kamiah Overaa
Director
Rachel and I are former colleagues (not in care!) who have remained in touch throughout the development of Homecare Voices.
As Engagement Lead at YMCA Robin Hood Group, I am able to offer strategic advice based on my experiences within another community-focused, not-for-profit organisation.
Having recently acquired an MBA from Loughborough Business School, it is great to put theory into practice via this non-executive role. My position at Homecare Voices is independent of my work at YMCA Robin Hood Group.
Dan Roberts
Advisory Board
When COVID-19 resulted in Dan having to close his event promotion company, he took up a trainee role at a new homecare provider in his area. To his surprise, he felt he'd finally found his calling. It was the human connection and the feeling of helping others when the world was afraid to engage with them.
Dan committed to his role and was promoted numerous times until he was the Registered Manager of the service. Despite doing his all to ensure decent pay and conditions for staff, Dan faced constant pressure from his seniors to cut corners and implement poor practice for the sake of a few percent extra profit.
Eventually Dan burned out and left the company, starting afresh on the 'front-line' at another homecare agency. He was stunned at how poor the employment conditions were - often having to work 16 hour days for 11 hours' pay. He moved through a number of homecare agencies, constantly raising concerns only to be labelled a 'trouble-maker'. Dan now works in residential mental healthcare but remains determined as ever to push for change in homecare.
Lavinia Moroz-Hale
Advisory Board
Lavinia worked in a variety of office-based roles for over 40 years. In search of meaningful work which could fit flexibly around her unpaid caring responsibilities, Lavinia took up a role with a reputable national homecare provider. Like all of us, Lavinia found homecare to be incredibly rewarding on an emotional level and has since progressed to a more senior level of responsibility. Upon joining Homecare Voices, Lavinia was shocked to learn about the extent of the challenges facing others, and keen to support progress towards a fairer working lives in homecare.
Phephe Ncube
Advisory Board