Alpine wins Leisure and Lifestyle Coordinator at South East Great British Care Awards 2019!

Helen Couldridge from Alpine wins Leisure and Lifestyle Coordinator at South East Great British Care Awards 2019!

On Saturday 9 ^th  November we attended the 2019 South East Great British Care Awards which saw over 500 of the very best in social care attend a glittering awards ceremony at The Hilton Hotel, Brighton.

We are proud to in be involved in the awards as their purpose is to promote best practice within both home care and care homes sectors, and pay tribute to those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding excellence within their field of work.

The awards are supported by groups and charities from within the sector which include Care England, The Department of Health, The National Care Forum, The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and the Alzheimer’s Society, as well as local authorities and other commercial organisations.

This year we had seven finalists at the awards.

For the first time ever in the South East we were really excited to have our first winner, Leisure and Lifestyle Coordinator Helen Couldridge from our Residential Home Alpine in Sevenoaks. A truly dedicated team member of the home the judges said of Helen “We loved the variety of activities Helen had organised! She clearly demonstrated how the residents have a voice in what goes on in their home and how the activities are designed to be special, memorable and empowering for each person.” Helen now goes on to the National Finals in Birmingham on the 20 ^th March.

We are also really proud of our other finalists from our homes across the South East who were recognised for their outstanding excellence in their field of work.

Our other finalists were:

Katy Jordon from our Residential Home The Hollies in Tonbridge Wells who was nominated in the Nutrition Award. Also nominated in this award was Steve Creswick from Alpine.

Alpine had another 5 finalists nominations for Care Team, Gail Sadra was nominated for the Putting People First Awards, Lisa Beal was nominated in the New Comer Award, Jade Hogg was nominated in the Palliative Care Award and Samantha Tolfrey in the Care Home Worker