Every year the outstanding achievements of Provide’s health and care staff, as well as the volunteers who work with them, are recognised at an annual staff awards ceremony. This year it was held on 28 March 2018 at Newland Hall in Chelmsford and 140 people attended.
The main categories for the awards and winners were:
| Award | Winners |
| 1. Care and Compassion Award | Children’s Community Nursing Team (Service)
Nicola Radovic, Assessment Nurse, ESDAAR (Individual) |
| 2. Outstanding Leader Award | Sophia Flint, Community Matron |
| 3. Outstanding Volunteer Award | Jane Rice, Pulmonary Rehab Class St Peter’s |
| 4. Outstanding Service Award | Children’s Community Nursing Service |
| 5. Outstanding Employee Award | Michelle Kulik, Business Co-ordinator
Carol Selby, Administrative Assistant, Child Health Information Service |
| 6. Sustainability Award | Essex Child Health Information Systems Team |
| 7. Behaviour Change Award | Therese Williams, Project: Electronic triage through SystmOne (Gold)
Sophie Flint, Project: Red to Green (Silver) Stephanie Rivett, Project: Paper Reduction Awareness Campaign (Bronze) |
This year we presented Highly Commended Awards in the following categories to recognise the hard work and commitment of these individuals:
- Emma Schmid – Sustainability Award
- Ruth Barlow and Julia Tseayo – Outstanding Leader Award
In addition 46 members of staff received Educational Achievement Awards and 13 members of staff received Long Service Awards, for over 25 years of service to Provide and the wider NHS and care services.
Speaking about the awards Provide’s Chairman, Derrick Louis said:
“These awards recognise and acknowledge the commitment, hard work and achievement of our staff. We celebrate the exceptional teams and individuals who have gone above and beyond what is required of them to provide an excellent level of service. It is an occasion where we publically recognise these successes. We also acknowledge staff who have achieved national recognition.”
“There was an outstanding response for our Care and Compassion Award with patients, carers and their families nominating services and individuals they feel deserve to be recognised for their hard work and inspiring efforts.
“Many entries demonstrated how caring, compassionate and valued our staff are and I was proud to hear about the support shown by our staff to patients, often at difficult times for families.”
1. Care & Compassion Award
Winner Service Category – Children’s Community Nursing Team
Left to right: Derrick Louis, Provide’s Chairman, members of Children’s Community Nursing Team, and Jayne Peden, Assistant Director.
1. Care & Compassion Award
Winner Individual Category – Nicola Radovic – Nicola is a nurse who works in the Locality & Neighbourhood Service ESDAAR team and is based in Chelmsford.
Left to right: Jayne Peden, Assistant Director/Chair of the Governors, Nicola Radovic, Assessment Nurse, Derrick Louis, Provide’s Chairman
2. Outstanding Leader Award – winner: Sophia Flint
Left to right: Provide’s Non-Executive Director Mark Heasman, Sophia Flint, Community Matron, Provide’s Non-Executive Director Ginny Craig, Louise Palmer, Integrated Sexual Health Nurse Team Leader.
3. Outstanding Volunteer Award – winner: Jane Rice, Pulmonary Rehab Class St Peter’s
Left to right: Jane Rice, Volunteer, and Vicky Waldon, Executive Director of the Integrated Pathway Hub
4. Outstanding Service Award – winner: Children’s Community Nursing Service
Left to right: Gerdalize Du Toit, Deputy Director of Operations, members of Children’s Community Nursing Team, Stephanie Dawe, Executive Clinical and Operations Director.
5. Outstanding Employee Award – Michelle Kulik and Carol Selby
Left to right: Michelle Kulik, John Niland, Chief Executive, Carol Selby.
6. Sustainability Award – Child Health Information Systems Team
Left to right: Members of the CHIS team receiving the award with Carol Gerrard, Clinical Systems Manager (centre) and Stephanie Dawe, Executive Clinical and Operations Director (left).
7. Behaviour Change Award – Therese Williams
Left to right: Therese Williams, Single Gate Referral Administrator, Sarah Barnes, Assistant Director Specialist Children and Adult Services
Also one of the recipients of the Long Service Award – Isabel Salter
Left to right: Isabel Salter, HR Business Partner, John Niland, Chief Executive
For further information contact the Provide communications team:
provide.communications@nhs.net or call 0300 303 2669
