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Senior Leadership Team

Leading Strategic Growth & Care Excellence

Our Senior Leadership Team drives strategic growth, operational excellence, and continuous care improvement across the UK. With deep experience in social care and business strategy.

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Ethan Hales

Group Head of Property & Estate

Ethan supports corporate strategy and business development, ensuring sustainable service growth through the effective acquisition and management of our property and estate portfolio.
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Ryan Brummitt
Managing Director, Specialist Support Division

Ryan is responsible for ensuring the growth, development and quality of our supported living services, ensuring individuals receive tailored, outcome-focused support and commissioning partners have access to innovative, high quality services.

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Tracy Owens
Regional Director, Domiciliary Care Division, Northwest
Tracy leads Choices Homecare across the Northwest, ensuring our service users, their families and our wider stakeholders have access to quality, agile and responsive domiciliary care services.
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Tracey Walshaw

Regional Director, Domiciliary Care Division, Yorks & Humber

Tracey leads Choices Homecare services across Yorkshire and Humber, ensuring the delivery of high performing, reliable and innovative domiciliary care services that reflect and respond to the individual needs of those we serve.

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Paula Beaney

Group Head of Quality Assurance & Compliance

Paula provides corporate oversight of quality improvement, compliance and governance across the Group, providing independent assurance to the Executive Board that all services meet best practice standards, safeguarding protocols, and regulatory requirements.

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Rachel Wood
Group Head of Talent & Development
Rachel is responsible for Optimo’s Learning Academy, building development solutions and programmes which ensure all staff have access to ongoing professional growth and career development opportunities.
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Jane Lister
Group Head of Recruitment & Resourcing
Jane leads our workforce planning and recruitment services, ensuring Optimo attracts top-tier professionals to support long-term service growth.
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Amy Dowden

Group Head of HR Operations & Employee Relations

Amy oversees HR strategy, delivering a high quality end-to-end employee lifecycle serviceacross the Group, ensuring line managers and staff have access to tools, products and interventions that enable them to effectively deliver Optimo’s strategy and ambition.

Acquisitions & Compliance Excellence
Nicola Wade

Group Finance Manager – Compliance

Nicola Wade is Group Finance Manager for Compliance at Optimo Care Group, leading on financial compliance and audit readiness across the Group. She ensures adherence to standard operating procedures and supports consistent, high-quality financial practice across all services. Nicola has been with Optimo since 2018 and brings deep operational knowledge shaped by years of experience across the Group’s evolving finance function.

Workforce Excellence & Quality Care
Steph Bashforth

Group Finance Manager – Domiciliary Division

Steph Bashforth is Group Finance Manager for the Domiciliary Division at Optimo Care Group, overseeing financial operations and leading a team across payroll, sales, and purchase ledger. Since joining in March 2024, she has led the finance transition for the Choices Homecare rebrand, supporting the integration of multiple legacy services.

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