Raina is Chief Executive Officer of Agincare, which provides a broad range of care and support services spanning 85+ locations across England with around 4,000 team members.
Raina started working in social care in 1989, initially as a care worker in various local authority, NHS and private settings, before qualifying as a social worker and gaining an MA in Mental Health Studies. Prior to joining Agincare in 2004, she was a Regulatory Inspector with five years’ experience of registering and inspecting care homes and domiciliary care agencies.
Raina and the Agincare team are actively involved in national representation of sector issues, and in raising the profile of the value of quality social care and what it means to peoples’ lives, through work with organisations such as the Homecare Association and Social Care Future. Also passionate about communities and sharing experience, skills and resources, Raina is a supporter of several smaller local organisations including in her role as Non-Executive Chair of an internationally-recognised arts organisation, https://b-side.org.uk/ : an Arts Council national portfolio organisation Trustee of https://edenportland.org/ and MEMO and chairs the Portland Economic Vision board, bringing together local businesses to support a long term vision for job creation and economic prosperity in Portland. She is also Dorset Ambassador, promoting Dorset as a great place to live and work. Together with her Chairman and the Founder of Agincare, Derek Luckhurst, she also works on a broader community regeneration project around Agincare’s head office driven by Derek’s personal investment.
Happy to offer support on various professional issues or personal/career development matters via email, phone, online or in-person as time allows. If she can’t help, is happy to share networks and contracts that may be able to!

Contact: Raina.summerson@agincare.com  @Agincare X and https://www.linkedin.com/in/raina-summerson