Our Staff
Kenny Steele
Kenny Steele joined Highland Hospice as Chief Executive Officer in June 2011.
Previous to joining the Hospice, Kenny was Divisional General Manager for Medicine and Diagnostics at Raigmore Hospital,… Read more »
Paula McCormack
Paula has worked as Director of Clinical and Educational Services at the hospice since 2002. Her role includes executive responsibility for all non medical clinical care and Paula is answerable to… Read more »
Donna Macleod
Donna Macleod is a healthcare professional who prior to joining Highland Hospice in 1998 was a Senior Manager in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, responsible for Secretarial Services including the… Read more »
Andrew Leaver
Andrew Leaver heads up the busy fundraising and communications department, as well as looking after the Hospice’s retail operation which consists of 11 shops and a warehouse.
Andrew was the… Read more »
Dr Jeremy Keen
Jeremy has been a Consultant in Palliative Medicine since since 1998 having trained in Edinburgh and Canada.
Dr Stephen Hutchison, MD FRCP (Glasg)
Stephen qualified in 1979. He trained in general and renal medicine, before becoming a palliative care physician and completing his training in Edinburgh. In 1994, he was appointed as the first… Read more »
Mike Rattenbury
Mike’s first hospice was in Hull, in 1999. This was part-time, alongside church ministry, then full-time in 2003 combining chaplaincy with staff development. He joined Highland Hospice in 2005.… Read more »
Eric Butlin
Eric has been in post as the Hospice Social Worker since 2001. He primarily works with Hospice patients and their families offering support and practical help up until the time of the patient’s… Read more »
Linda Macdonald
Linda started as a volunteer in fundraising before she was encouraged to apply for her job in 2002. She loves working with a great team of people who have the enthusiasm and energy necessary for a… Read more »
Wendy Clark
Wendy joined Highland Hospice in 2010 as Communications Officer, and is responsible for the organisation’s press, PR, marketing, advertising, internal communications and maintenance of the… Read more »
Amanda Burt
Amanda started working as Events & Community Fundraiser at Highland Hospice in 2005, after studying for a Bsc in Psychology in Edinburgh. Her role involves helping to organise our annual calendar of… Read more »
Britta Harder
Britta, who is a native of Hamburg in North Germany, joined the Highland Hospice fundraising team in 2004 in the role of Fundraising Secretary, and is now our Fundraising Administrator.
Britta says… Read more »
Susan Cooper
Susan has worked for Highland Hospice since 1998. Initially she was Shop Manager for Forres, Grantown and Nairn shops before adding the Aviemore shop two years ago. Recently she became Retail… Read more »
Simon Spence
Simon has been privileged to work as a counsellor at the Hospice since 2002. He works primarily with people in their bereavement, both individually and in groups. He has been working in the field of… Read more »
Una Smale
Una Smale was appointed in 1994 as the first person with a specific role for supporting families. Her original remit was to set up both a social work and bereavement support service. There are now… Read more »
Giridhar Ravi
Giridhar Ravi joined Highland Hospice as a Locum Physiotherapist in December 2008 and became Permanent staff in March 2009.
Ravi moved from India to Scotland in 2006 to study an MSc in Physiotherapy… Read more »
Ian James
Ian joined Highland Hospice in June 2003. Prior to that he had worked in the Inverness Community Mental Health team for 7 years, and before then he had worked in Salford, Manchester also in the… Read more »
Jacqui Greenhalgh
Jacqui Greenhalgh joined the Hospice in January 2012 as an Occupational Therapist.
Her job involves working with people of all ages, enabling them to live life their way, doing the activities that… Read more »
Mark Allen
Mark joined the Hospice at the end of 2012, after 4 years as a Personal Assistant with Highlands & Islands Fire & Rescue Service.
As well as looking after the day to day needs of the CEO and the… Read more »
Marie-Anne Vrac
Marie-Anne joined Highland Hospice in August 2012 and is responsible for organising fundraising events across the Highland region and raising awareness of the work of the Hospice.
Marie-Anne says,… Read more »
Carola Highet
Carola graduated from UHI Inverness in 2012 with a BA (Hons) in Business & Management Degree. She was then appointed as the Hospice’s Fundraising Assistant and in March 2013 was successful in… Read more »
Susan Smith
(RGN, RMN, BA Cancer Nursing, Specialist Practitioner)
Susan’s interest in palliative care began in 1985 when she completed a short course in Edinburgh entitled ‘Care of the Dying Patient and his… Read more »
Chrissie Merrick
Chrissie has worked for Highland Hospice since 1990 in various nursing roles. Her interest in palliative care led me to complete the Specialist Practitioner Qualification and Bachelor of Nursing… Read more »