The Care Employer Award
Winner – Geoffrey Cox, Southern Healthcare
Committed to ensuring that staff feel valued and are trained to be able to deliver quality care. Being able to offer rewards to staff helps to show how committed they are to them and how much they want to invest in them.
Highly Commended– Redleif Care
A family business who offers staff the opportunity to develop and gain promotion focusing on individual strengths and therefore being able to enhance the team, recognizing the importance of being able to think outside the box to keep staff motivated.
The Care Home Worker Award
Winner – Jannette Howking Nicholls, Care Your Way
Jannette works as a live in carer, towards the end of a thirty year career with broad and deep expertise in social care and mental health, with a very strong skill range and excellent value base. Her recognition of the value of these assets and her desire to sustain their use beyond her paid career makes her a worthy winner.
Highly commended – Loreen McGeoghan, Care UK
Loreen is a home grown and highly skilled and experienced Deputy Manager. Loreen values colleagues and service users highly and is an extremely valuable asset to her employers.
The Home Care Worker Award
Winner – Yves Tshamba, Access Your Care
Yves is the epitome of everything a care worker should be. He offers true person-centered support and goes over and above to support his service users and colleagues alike. Yves is respectful, kind and considerate. A great role model for care workers of the future to aspire to.
Highly commended – Mirabele Mistoui, Agincare
Mirabele passion for ensuring that people at the end of their lives have the best experience possible in the hardest of circumstances. Her empathy was evident in everything that she said, from the service users themselves to their families and loved ones. Mirabeler makes sure that she gets to know people’s preferences quickly and shares their life experiences with them right until the very end. True person-centered end of life carer!
The Care Newcomer Award
Winner – Kayleigh Carter, Saracen Care Services
Kayleigh was made redundant from her factory job during Covid and decided that it was an ideal time to go into care work. Since that time a year ago, she hasn’t looked back and appears to be a natural, quickly becoming a huge asset to the care sector. Kayleigh shared some really inspiring stories about her clients and how she has made a meaningful and positive impact to their lives.
Highly commended – Will Jarvis, AbleCare Homes
Will has quickly found a love for care and was not phased by coming into a mainly female dominated field. He shared a fantastic example of how he made a positive difference to a client and their family at an extremely difficult time. Will really highlighted the importance of building relationships with colleagues, clients and families in order to get the best possible outcomes for all involved.
The Care Home Registered Manager Award
Winner – Dave Harley, Saintbridge House Nursing & Residential Home
Dave’s passion, dedication and commitment to what he does every day and has the residents, family and local community at heart, very proud of his achievements and loves what he does. Dave’s determination to the Home and staff, makes a difference and supports every element within the Home and always goes above and beyond.
Highly commended – Bozena Szczepaniak, Care UK
Fight this together and get through – committed, passionate and a true team player.
The Home Care Registered Manager Award
Winner – Mike Durrant, Butterfields Care
Mike exceptional, his empathy for his team not just service users brilliant.
The Care Home Chef Award
Winner – Matthew Kavanagh, Salutem
Very passionate care and support around the dietary needs of his clients. Matthew has a compassionate, caring work ethos ensuring all food produced is nutritional and person-centered for each of his clients and the staff.
Highly commended – Kirsty, Husband and two daughters, Kirsty’s Kitchens
A lovely dedicated family, who are passionate about the role they play in supporting those in need.
The Dignity in Care Award
Winner – Amanda Phillips, Saracen Care Services
Amanda such a joy to talk to you, could see the pride she has in her work and it was moving.
A true winner!!
Highly commended – Chris Guest, Blenheim House Care Home
Chris exceptional, he cares for the people he supports dearly and deserves recognition for his hard work.
The Dementia Carer Award
Winner – Avalon Nursing Home, Camelot Care
This home work as team and specializes in dementia, they work therapeutically with staff to help understand the clients and how the clients feel, they work person-centered holistic way and know the residents very well, care plans are mainly done by talking to each residents observe what the residents like, dislike to get as much information from residents and the rest care plan includes the views from the family and friends. This team work really well!
Highly commended – Andy McEwan, Home Care Preferred, The Exeter Business Hub
Andy had great knowledge of dementia and always put the residents first. Andy has great observation skills and knows his residents well. He always tries to find subjects he can connect with the person.
The Care Home Team Award
Winner – Kathy & The Teddington Gardens, Chosen Care, part of National Care Group
Team works with learning disabilities, mental health, end of life care and had received the highest rating on their recent inspection. The team works well together striving for best care delivery and allow the team to grow to their full potential. Despite of their cultural differences, inclusion and support each other for shared goals is paramount. Respect and dignity is followed within the team thus enabling them to deal with crisis and conflicts well.
Highly commended – Parkwood House, Southern Health Care
This team recognizes their team and everybody’s contribution a learning culture, not a blame culture. They celebrate the individuals and allow each person of the team to shine. They build meaningful connection not just within the team but also the residents they look after ensuring people have sense of fulfillment.
The Home Care Team Award
Winner – Care at Home, Holmleigh Care
The team goes above and beyond to bring a smile to the face of the people they support, passion and the connection team members held with clients. Feedback received by the team from a family member was that “the team didn’t know the person before but celebrates who they are now”. It is evident a family ethos to the team. The team members were rewarded through various means recognizing performance and positive feedback.
Highly commended – Aspirations (SW)
The team spoke passionately about their roles and the support received from their colleagues, with many staff having been employed for many years. They proudly shared examples of demonstrable outcomes achieved for individuals supported, including reductions in care hours, in one case supporting someone to reduce from 3:1 support to living independently.
The Activity Co-ordinator Award
Winner – Amelia Pace, Castleford House, Milkwood Care
Amelia is so creative and has come up with some fantastic experiences for her residents. Involving them in decisions, fulfilling wishes and having fun. Inking and Drinking saw residents being rebels and having “tattoos” while drinking beer, and the heavily Risk Assessed Water Slide was a massive success with lots of laughs and whistles. Amelia is helping to train others and sharing her experiences with other homes.
Highly commended – David Ible, Aura -Stratton Court Care
David oozes positivity and energy in his role. He knows his residents really well and completely personalizes activities. He encourages participation with “let’s go and have some fun” and takes activities to the residents in their room if they prefer or are unable to join in the group activity. He’s enabled residents to make friends and become part of the community. He’s bold to try new things, trips to the circus and getting a video message from Cliff Richard, tractor rides, meeting reindeer and grenadier guards!
The Ancillary Worker Award
Winner – Malcom Hobbs, AbleCare Homes
“People are important and they matter that’s why I do what I do”. Malcom received Thank you cards and employee of the month. Malcom enjoys the role and is humbled to be recognized and appreciated.
Highly commended – Alison Wooden, Right at Home Solent
Alison is a career at heart, team player that goes above and beyond to help others in her team and community.
The 3 R’s Award
Winner – Claire Bell, Swallowcourt Limited
Swallowcourt Ltd is an innovative service that continues to develop to ensure the staff truly realize how valued they are and have access to many resources to maintain their mental health and wellbeing. They recognize the importance of a happy team to maintain a happy, positive environment for the residents they support.
Highly commended – Josh Hawker, AbleCare Homes
Josh is very innovative and likes to think outside of the box to achieve the best for AbleCare. He is very bright and enthusiastic about obtaining the best staff to ensure the best is provided to the residents.
The Workforce Development Award
Winner – Swallow Court Limited
Residents are the centre point of everything they do, which is client lead, they encourage residents to try new things, they have a wish tree and promote positive risks when residents have an end-life requests.
They have great values as a company, and they give reason for residents to get up in the morning, given them a purpose for the day. It is very apparent they all go above and beyond their role.
Highly commended – Laura Baumane , HC One
Laura visits all the Care Homes in her area, which she enjoys with passion. Plans developments with staff to deliver to the residents.
Laura is very humble, has a very positive nature, attitude and is very creative in thinking. Laura is very well organized in her role and promote team work as feels this is very important in her role too.
The Care Innovator Award
Winner – Paul Dixon, Mill House Care
Paul’s project to invite people to have free day care when no other option was possible in return for enabling people with dementia to be re-included in the workforce using their historic skills was an inspired idea that he had to work hard to persuade his employers and local business to accept but the blooming success of the project and its wider promotion has completely validated this innovative idea. We hope it could roll out more widely
The Frontline Leader Award
Winner – Michelle Cox-Coley, Holmleigh Care
Michelle believes in leading by example and taking the time to get to know the wide range of staff working under her as individuals. Michelle promotes best practice by building teams and encouraging everyone to be both reflective in planning and delivering unique packages of high-quality person-centered care.
Highly commended – Sarah Devine, Swallow Court
Sarah leads by example and strives to get the best from the staff team. Sarah recognizes the importance of allowing staff to have a voice and the importance of valuing the staff team, allowing them the opportunity to be able to grow and develop.
The Home Care Co-ordinator Award
Winner – Andrea Hill, Agincare Live-in Care (South West) Ltd
Passionate, dedicated individual who is clearly making a difference to people’s lives within the role she does.
The Care Assessor Award
Winner – John Kelham, Agincare Live-in-Care (South West) Ltd
An inspiring individual who has given much of their life to supporting others. A person who truly embeds the word person-centered and goes above and beyond to ensure through their practice that this is delivered to all. No one could be more deserving of this award.
Highly commended – Lorraine Averre (Lumsden), Mill House Care and Dementia Home
A true Nanny McPhee, this person embodies the care and compassion that celebrates the wonderful world of social care. A true inspiration to all, who shows that no matter the situation there is always a way forward.
The Putting People First Award
Winner – Rosedale House, Saracens care
This award goes to some very unusual superheroes – in fact, they are RAIN superheroes (this was a project they have put in pace and is amazing)! this duo showed kindness empathy, out of the box thinking and a brilliant approach to care that is faultless, they really are superheroes
Highly commended – Keychange Charity
A very close call from a very impressive interview, they were very close to winning but just pipped at the post, they should though be very proud as it was a very close call
The Palliative Carer Award
Winner – Butterfields community care
Butterfields offers an outstanding service that puts the clients at the heart of everything they do. They show clear passion for the team that has been developed and support staff as well as the clients and their families. They really do always go above and beyond to make anything possible to keep clients in the home.
The Social Care Nurse Award
Winner – Dianne Declan, Mill House Care and Dementia Home chipping Campden
A deserving winner, Dianne is a breath of fresh air, she is compassionate and caring.
Highly commended – Daniela Mustatia, Sefton Hall, Southern Health Care
Daniela was completely surprised that she had been nominated. Her passion was clear to see. Daniela worked with her team through the pandemic, and they had no deaths form covid. Daniela goes above and beyond and enabled a gentleman to be able to return back home after questioning his medication and getting it reviewed. Daniela has the skills that make a great nurse.
Highly commended – Sarah Shields, Cornwall Care
In Sarah’s words – born to be a nurse and wakes up every day with a smile on her face. Sarah has 40 years’ experience and clearly makes a difference in people’s lives
The Unpaid Carer Award
Winner: Bailey Nichols, AbleCare Homes
Bailey is a young volunteer who loves supporting the residents in Patron House.
For a seven-year-old, Bailey shows such empathy and compassion, let’s hope a career in health social care awaits her!
The Outstanding Contribution to Social Care Award
Winner – Mary Shortman, AbleCare Homes, Frenchay House
Mary is the true definition of outstanding contribution to care. Few people can say they have withheld such compassion over the course of a lifetime – and it is unbelievable to think of how many lives Mary has touched with her kindness and guidance. She is clearly such a good friend and colleague to all who work with her, and an immense source of support to those she cares for and their families and loved ones. Thank you Mary!
Highly commended – Butterfield
Mike and his team have gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure that people they support are able to receive compassion, human kindness, and care in their last moments. There were countless examples of times when the team have gone the extra mile (and then some) to make sure people felt supported and rewarded – including those in the wider community. The Butterfield team clearly understand what it is to make a difference to somebody’s day – and even their life – and don’t let anything get in their way to make it happen.
The Social Care Covid Hero Award
Winner – Katie Kuczynski, Housing21
Katie led a scheme which was devastated by Covid. Seven of her customers passed away as a result of Covid as did one of her colleagues. Katie and a colleague spent 17 days solid working in the scheme that was in total lockdown to ensure that the tenants continued to be supported and was innovative in using technology to provide ongoing activities when tenants couldn’t mix together. A passionate, skilled and committed manager.
Highly commended – Alex Turner, Saracen Care Services
Alex was very passionate which clearly shone through in his interview, He demonstrated a clear vision of actions necessary, organizational skills and commitment to support all his customers and staff through the pandemic and he was clearly willing to go the extra mile. His work with the Council and the local NHS was particularly impressive as was his proactive style when he encountered problems. Alex continues to be acutely aware of the dangers of Covid and other infectious deceases and is doing all he can to mitigate the dangers.
The Social Care Covid Hero Team Award
Winner – Pat Reid & Team, Right at Home North Somerset
Pat excelled at communication and ensuring that all her team were appropriately trained and supported. The team coped magnificently during the most challenging period with the support and guidance of Pat. Despite a significant impact on her family, she prioritized her customers and staff.