Richard Chillery

Richard is a trained therapist in a number of different modalities with a background in child and adolescent mental health, voluntary sector and Local Authority therapeutic services.  Richard has worked clinically with children, young people and families/carers with high and complex needs, often known to the Local Authority, and was previously a CAMHS team co-ordinator and clinical lead in New Zealand for two years.

He is currently Deputy Chief Operating Officer at (The Bay) Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, a large Mental Health Trust and prior to that was the Operational Director for Children’s and Countywide Community Services at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust.  He was accountable for the UK’s largest provider of the Healthy Child Programme and has been a Technical Advisor for Public Health England.

He is a graduate of a number of leadership programmes including the Nye Bevan with the NHS Leadership Academy.  Richard chairs the Trust’s Quality Committee and is a member of the Risk and Audit Committee as well as serving on panels convened under the Mental Health Act.

Board Attendances in 2021/22: 10/12