Staff Awards 2023
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 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 .
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.
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
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Be able to show what concrete actions they have taken
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Have brought colleagues with them and included them so that their actions are amplified
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Have delivered a measurable impact
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Helped to create long term change.
- 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.
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.
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
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