Rich Amos

About Rich…

Rich has orientated himself to take up positions across social care, health, housing and technology enabled lives – all of which are aligned to advocating for social justice and elevating how people, who draw on support, should be enabled to live a life of their choosing. He draws on support himself, and is passionate about contributing to agendas that, through the power of co-production and personalisation, create system level change, by being informed by local need.

Rich is an alumni of Leadership for Empowered Communities and Personalised Care, NHS Peer Leadership Development Programme and New Economy Organisers Network (NEON) Movement Builders programme.

Among his diverse range in roles, he is a member of Think Local Act Personal’s (TLAP) National Coproduction Advisory Group (NCAG) and a member of TEC Services Association’s (TSA) Sector Risk and Innovation Group (SRIG)

Rich currently volunteers as a trustee for 6 charitable organisations, trusts and user led organisations that have causes about disability and community. He has a passion for understanding how strategic decisions and policy impact on people – because of this, he describes himself as a ‘humaniser’ – and is dedicated to working alongside marginalised groups, as he uses his Level 3 award in Community Organising to stimulate thinking around the power in the possibilities they hold.

Rich uses the intelligence he has gained, though drawing on care and support from 3 different local authorities he’s lived within, to be a trainer on delivering workshops on social care legislation.
Rich is confident and able to build rapport with a range of audiences and has a growing portfolio of being a public speaker, including at international events, such as TSA’S ITEC Conference.

I’m passionate and comfortable speaking about:

• Drawing on social care
• Drawing on health care
• Direct Payments / Personal Budgets
• Peer Support
• Funding of social care
• Politics
• Technology enabled care
• Housing
• Using coproduction as the vehicle to achieve personalisation
• Intersectionality
• Care Act legislation
• Exploring how strategic decisions impact people
• Disability leadership and lived experience coaching

I’m happy contribute, speak and present:

Online, face to face at events, be pre-recorded, on radio or television, parliamentary, written pieces and vlogs.

I am based in Shropshire but happy to travel.

I use a power chair and will have a PA with me. For any overnight stays I would need a second bedroom would be needed for my PA.

Get in touch with me HERE