Lynn Laughland, Managing Director, HRM Homecare Services
Lynn Laughland is Managing Director of HRM Homecare Services Ltd and Health & Social Care Training Consortium Ltd. HRM Homecare Services provides contracted care services to seven local authorities and employs over 300 staff and is now one of the fastest growing and largest independent providers of Care at Home and Housing Support Services to Older People, Adults with Disabilities and Children and Families in Scotland.
With a strong and robust management team, it’s Lynn’s intention to ensure that the Scottish Care arena is dominated by home grown organisations like HRM Homecare. Lynn’s most recent venture includes Health & Social Care Training Consortium (HSC) which works alongside HRM Homecare to provide care training to support recruitment and training needs of HRM staff and other care providers. This provides a unique business model and advantage within the care and training sectors.
Health & Social Care Training Consortium is at the forefront of a developing health & social care skills agenda and has successfully secured Training for Work, Modern Apprenticeships and Skillseeker contracts across Scotland. It is whilst working in partnership with supported employment partnerships that HRM Homecare is able to offer employment opportunities across the communities in which it provides care services. Lynn has been responsible for the operational, financial and strategic development of HRM Homecare Services Ltd for 15 years.
Lynn grew up in Cumbernauld, was educated in Glasgow and initially took a scientific career path gaining a BSc in Applied Biology. Lynn has been involved in Health and Social Care for many years on both a professional and voluntary level. Lynn has fifteen years management experience of delivering community care services to the statutory and voluntary sectors and a thorough understanding of the complexities and challenges often associated with social care provision and training in a highly political, commercially resistant and culturally opposed environment.
Lynn holds many qualifications including: a Post Graduate Certificate in Leadership in Social Services; a Masters in Social Work (Pending); a Post Graduate Diploma in Community Care; a BSc Applied Biology, MLSO (State Registered; Professions Supplementary to Medicine); an SQA Assessor & Verifier Award; a National Trainers Award; an ROSPA Manual Handling & Risk Assessor Trainers Certificate and a NEBOSH National Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety.
Lynn has over the years been involved in a voluntary capacity with a number of worthwhile causes in the West of Scotland. She set up Glenburn After School Care and has held board positions with The Space Place in Prestwick, South Ayrshire Energy Agency, Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce, Scottish Enterprise Ayrshire and the Scottish Enterprise Women in Business Mentor programme. On a personal basis, Lynn has a keen interest in financial markets and in property development and is currently converting a property in Kilmarnock into office accommodation. Lynn has an open-minded, positive outlook on life. She is outgoing and quick-witted with a keen sense of humour.
