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The 2023 Hertfordshire Care Awards
The 2023 Hertfordshire Care Awards are in place to recognise and reward the incredible dedication of our Hertfordshire care workforce.
Nominations
Please see below for the 9 categories. If you would like to nominate, simply click the box of the required category and download the nomination form.
The awards are open to all Hertfordshire providers to nominate into. Partners of HCPA such as the Local Authority, NHS or others may also nominate your organisation.
If you are CQC registered, judges may ask for evidence of ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ ratings, or HCC monitoring equivalent.
For unregistered organisations, judges may ask you for equivalent feedback to evidence quality of care.
Ratings do not apply to categories nominated for individuals such as Inspirational Leader or Rising Star.
We cannot wait to receive your nominations.
Unsure if you are eligible to nominate, or need assistance with the criteria? Please contact sarahscottfoster@hcpa.co.uk
Wishing you the best of luck…
Most Improved Support at Home Team
The Inspirational Leader Award
The Rising Star Award
Most Improved Residential Care Team
The Compassion Award for Residential Care
Outstanding Achievement in Adult Disability Services
Most Improved Adult Disability Support Team
The Care Culture Award
Support at Home Outstanding Achievement Award
Awards Night – location
Celebrate in style at the 2023 Hertfordshire Care Awards!
When: Thursday the 30th November 2023
Where: Willows Farm, St Albans
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Most Improved Support at Home Team
This award is for a whole domiciliary care team or business who have made an outstanding improvement in the last year in relation to innovation and development.
Criteria includes:
- The team meet regularly to share best practice and implement it.
- The team work in partnership to create clear wellbeing outcomes for the people they support (this includes utilising specialist training).
- Specific innovative ideas have been implemented by the team that have made a difference.
The Inspirational Leader Award
This award is for a care employee in a leadership position who has proved to be an excellent leader and coach as well as supporting others.
Criteria includes:
- The leader engages fully in leadership training.
- The leader motivates staff and coaches them to achieve identifiable outcomes for the people they support.
- The leader is self-motivated in promoting their ‘can-do’ attitude to everyone else.
The Rising Star Award
This award is for an individual working in any care service, who is new to care, and has shown outstanding growth, care, and compassion, as well as commitment in a short space of time, rising through adversity or challenge.
Criteria includes:
- The outstanding individual is enthusiastic about working in the care sector and helps to raise the profile of the sector.
- The individual has learned outstandingly well on the job and has aspired to learn and grow.
- There is strong evidence that this person is already making a big difference within the company.
Most Improved Residential Care Team
This award is for a whole residential, nursing, or other care team or business who have made an outstanding improvement in the last year in relation to innovation and development.
Criteria includes:
- The team meet regularly to share best practice and implement it.
- The team work in partnership to create clear wellbeing outcomes for the people they support (this includes utilising specialist training).
- Specific innovative ideas have been implemented by the team that have made a difference.
The Compassion Award for Residential Care
This award is for an individual who works in a residential or nursing home setting and has shown outstanding compassion to others.
Criteria includes:
- The individual is committed, communicates well, is competent, and courageous. Their care reflects this.
- The individual is flexible and delivers care to meet individual needs.
- Feedback has been received from the people they support and families about their compassionate and personalised care.
Outstanding Achievement in Adult Disability Services
This award is for an individual who works day-to-day supporting a person, or people who live with a learning disability or other disability. There must be evidence of great ideas and innovation.
Criteria includes:
- The individual is committed, communicates will, is competent and courageous. Their care reflects this.
- The individual is flexible and delivers care to meet individual needs.
- Feedback has been received from the people they support and families about their compassionate and personalised care.
Most Improved Adult Disability Support Team
This award is for a whole learning disability care team or business who have made an outstanding improvement in the last year in relation to innovation and development.
Criteria includes:
- The team meet regularly to share best practice and implement it.
- The team work in partnership to create clear wellbeing outcomes for the people they support (this includes utilising specialist training).
- Specific innovative ideas have been implemented by the team that have made a difference.
The Care Culture Award
This is a new award for 2023 reflecting the outstanding culture within any care organisation. It has been identified that the culture of a care company is the basis of everything, from safety to care, compassion and success. The winner of this award will have an outstanding care culture within.
Criteria includes:
- Change, improvement, and innovation is driven by the entire staff team, families and clients and not just the senior leaders or managers.
- Staff have fed back about the supportive, dynamic, and learning culture of the organisation.
- Feedback has been received from they support and families about the compassionate and outstanding way the organisation supports individuals because of their unique culture.
Support at Home Outstanding Achievement Award
This award is for an individual Domiciliary Care staff member who has made a difference and has tailored care specifically for an individual. There must be evidence of great ideas and innovation.
Criteria includes:
- This individual has made a difference within an organisation and evidence from others supports this.
- They have tailored care specifically for an individual and improved their life quality.
- They are innovative, caring, and compassionate.