Staff Awards 2023

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Staff Awards 2023

The annual Whittington Health staff awards are back for 2023 and nominations are now open!

 

Our annual awards ceremony recognises the difference our staff make to the lives of our patients and their colleagues and our partner organisations and how they help us to be the best that we can be.

Nominations are now open and we invite you to get involved and nominate a staff member or team who you believe should be recognised for their exceptional care and commitment.

Nominations are open until 2.00pm on Monday 3 April 2023, so don’t wait to get your nomination in, straight away:

Patient Choice Award

If you or a relative have been treated by a member of our staff that you would like to say thank you to, you can nominate them for our special patient award. The patient award will be presented to the member of staff or team who you feel has made a clear difference to the care you receive. This can include improving customer service, increasing the quality of a service, changing how it is delivered or simply delivering great care. You can nominate by clicking here .
 
Our staff are also invited to nominate their colleagues who deserve recognition in the following categories:
 

Individual Commitment to Excellence in a Clinical Role Award
This award is open to anyone who has shown an outstanding commitment to delivering excellent clinical patient care. The criteria is deliberately broad because so many of our staff go above and beyond – however, we are looking for the very best examples of colleagues who have delivered work in the past year which is truly exceptional.


Individual Commitment to Excellence in a Non-Clinical Role Award

This award is open to anyone who has shown an outstanding commitment to delivering excellent support services delivered in clinical or non-clinical areas. The criteria is deliberately broad because so many of our staff go above and beyond – however, we are looking for the very best examples of colleagues who have delivered work in the past year which is truly exceptional.

 
Team Commitment to BetterNeverStops
This award is open to a team who have delivered improvements to the service/s they provide in the past year. The winners should have demonstrated:
  • A commitment to listening to colleague, patient and/or service users experiences and taking actions to respond.
  • Shown a commitment to change in order to ensure their service is as high quality as possible.
  • Shown a commitment to focus on outcomes
  • Can show what changes they have implemented and how they have resulted in a better, more colleague or patient centred service.

NEW FOR 2023: Commitment to Making Whittington Health a Greener more Sustainable Organisation
We are committed to making sure we operate in the most sustainable and green way possible in everything we do, and playing our part in ensuring that the NHS nationally is fully carbon neutral by 2045. We want to recognise the actions that colleagues are taking across the organisation to play their part in doing so. This award is designed to recognise colleagues, either as individuals or teams for their efforts to make us a greener more sustainable place. These award will go to someone who has made a big impact in the area where they work or teams who have made a big difference across the organisation. The winner/s will:
  • Be able to show what concrete actions they have taken
  • Have brought colleagues with them and included them so that their actions are amplified
  • Have delivered a measurable impact
  • Helped to create long term change.
 
Improving Patient Safety Award
This award will recognise an individual or team who has:
  • Made a significant contribution to making a measurable improvement to patient safety.
  • Acted on feedback or from a mistake or near miss
  • Was open and transparent in that learning
  • Was proactive in seeking out ways to improve safety
  • Brought the team with them


Paula Mattin – Emerging Leader Award

Named in memory of a much-missed colleague, this award will recognise an individual who is quickly developing as a leader amongst their peers. Leaders do not have to be managers and they do not necessarily have had to lead a corporate programme. The leadership they have shown must have been around a project or issue which enhances and ties in with the ICARE values.

 
Outstanding Contribution to ensuring Equity
Recognising the newest element of our trust values, this award will recognise someone who consistently demonstrates and promotes a culture of compassion and inclusivity. This could be a line manager who has successfully delivered change within a term or service whilst demonstrating these qualities or a colleague who has acted with compassion towards their colleagues or patients.

The winner will have demonstrate that everyone is included and taken action to ensure that everyone has the same opportunities regardless of any barriers they may face or differences they have.


Unsung Hero Award
This award will recognise someone who often goes the extra mile and makes a difference to our patients and/or the working lives of others or who performed a significant and noteworthy act way beyond what would usually be expected of someone in that role and who has not been recognised for it elsewhere.

 
Patient Choice Award
If you or a relative have been treated by a member of our staff that you would like to say thank you to, you can nominate them for our special patient award. The patient award will be presented to the member of staff or team who you feel has made a clear difference to the care you receive. This can include improving customer service, increasing the quality of a service, changing how it is delivered or simply delivering great care.
 
 

How to nominate

Nominating is quick and easy. To nominate the member of staff or team you feel fits the bill, simply complete this nomination form. You can make as many nominations as you like but duplicate nominations for the same person or team in the same category from the same nominator won’t be counted. The closing date for all nominations is 2.00pm on Monday 3 April 2023.
 
 

Tips for great nominations:

Your nomination will be what the judges will use to decide amongst the up to 100 people nominated whether your nominee should win, so be as detailed as possible. One or two line citations are unlikely to be successful, don't hide their light under a bushel - shout loud and proud about why they are the person who should walk away with the prize!

    • We are looking for the best of the best - don't play down their achievements!
    • Please provide evidence as to why the person you are nominating should get the award - ideally this will be measurable. Judges always have a really hard job deciding who should receive the award, so the nominations which have the strongest evidence will be successful.
    • Please tell us, giving as much precise detail as possible (figures, metrics, examples and data) why you think the person you are nominating should win this award.
    • You don't need to provide a very long submission, a short, succinct paragraph with strong evidence can be just as good as a long nomination but nominations of one or two lines are unlikely to be successful.
    • Consider what we are looking for when you write your nomination - each category has a short description to help you with this.
    • Don't leave it until the last minute to submit.
    • Don't discuss your nomination with your nominee - don't spoil the surprise!
    • If you have any questions please contact Communications.WhittHealth@nhs.net

All nominations will then be considered by an expert panel from across the trust’s staff and board.

We look forward to receiving your nominations - if you have any questions please contact us at communications.whitthealth@nhs.net

Last updated08 Mar 2023
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