Winners of the Great East Midlands Care Awards 2010 announced (Part 2)

The Care Nutrition & Hydration Award Ridgeway House Kitchen Team – Ridgeway House – Towcester - Northampton

Passion, commitment, dedication, enthusiasm, understanding, person centred and aware. Just a few of many words of what a great team – well done!

The Dignity in Care Award David Glover – Oaklands Community Centre - Derby

David gave the judges a clear vision of his personal passion for providing person centred care with respect for all aspects of an individual’s dignity.

The Dementia Care Worker Liz Baker – Northampton County Council - Northampton

Liz was chosen for demonstrating resilience and persistence in developing services that recognised the need to provide dementia services to older people with learning disabilities. Liz is a dedicated and passionate ambassador for dementia.

The Care Team Award Specialist Dementia Team - Northampton County Council - Northampton

The team were professional with a passion for the service that shone through. They understood the person centred planning the fact they distinguished the individual needs and ways to communication a cohesive team with a common set of values.

The Care Activity Organiser Award Ann Lloyd – Innova House – Mansfield Nottingham

Ann clearly has a passion for her role, and provides an activity programme, which is service user focused. She sensitively encourages her service users to take part as fully as they can.

Ancillary Worker Beverley Murray – MHA - Derby

In an extremely close category Beverley demonstrated that the role of ancillary worker if implemented with enthusiasm and thought can contribute significantly to the life of a residential care home and those who live and work there.

Care Trainer Award Lynne Bell – MHA - Derby

The judges felt that Lynne’s single handed approach to the training and development of the ‘FISH’ philosophy, within MHA, showed clear benefits and involvement at all levels. Her passion, enthusiasm and ‘large than life’ approach to training reaches a wider audience.

The Care Innovator Award Su Jarmulewski – Northampton County Council - Northampton

Su’s enthusiasm and commitment in taking on the ‘Time Bank; concept, together with her engaging the community and colleagues in making it happen, made her the stand out candidate for this award.

Putting People First/ Personalisation Community Lives Northampton County Council - Northampton

Whilst they described themselves as feisty and cheeky, the panel found them very imaginative, enthusiastic, passionate, dedicated and knowledgeable. They have had remarkable achievements for several individuals in such a short space of time.

The Carer’s Award Valerie Horobin – Two Dales, Derbyshire

Valerie was nominated by her granddaughter Amy, for her total dedication caring for her daughter over the last 45 years. She now supports her daughter to live independently and the judges felt that Valerie richly deserved to receive this award in recognition of all the care and support she provides to her whole family. A remarkable woman!

The Outstanding Contribution to Social Care Award Tina Morley-Ramage - Nottinghamshire County Council, Nottingham

Tina is an outstanding manager, trainer and motivator in the Nottinghamshire Multi Agency Mental Capactiy Act project which commenced in 2007. Partners have been inspired by her enthusiasm and commitment to educating and advising on this landmark legislation. Tina has organised over 200 events and trained nearly 5000 people. She has led on setting up pioneering courses and award winning projects. Tina loves her work and has come up with many innovative ideas – reaching out to different organisations to orchestrate training for specific groups, including carers and GPs. She is outcome focused and her enthusiasm is infectious to all who work with her.

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