Lydia Rose Button from Linden Manor wins New Comer Award and Elizabeth Johnson from Moorlands wins Good Nurse Award at East Midlands Great British Care Award 2019!
On the 1 st of November we attended the East Midlands Great British Care Awards which saw over 450 of the very best in social care attend a glittering awards ceremony at The East Midlands Conference Centre. This was only our second time at the awards and this year we were so proud to have in total 5 nominees from 3 different homes in the East Midlands area.
We are really excited to announce that our Acting Manager Lydia Rose Button from our Residential Home in Linden Manor won the New Comer Award. The Judges said about Lydia “Lydia is a newly promoted manager at only 21 years old. She has been a volunteer in care since she was 14 years old and has overcome reading and writing challenges she had been told she would never achieve. She is passionate, committed, warm hearted. An excellent example of youth talent.”
Our second winner of the night was Elizabeth Johnson from our nursing home Moorlands in Nottingham won the Good Nurse Award. The Judges said about Elizabeth “A dedicated, compassionate nurse who is committed to making an individual’s last days as comfortable as possible. She goes above and beyond to enable people to die with dignity, supporting families, residents and staff through this process.”
Lydia and Elizabeth now go no to the National finals in Birmingham on the 20 th March 2020.
We are also really proud of our other finalists.
Raice Cook, Manager from Moorlands, was nominated in the Registered Manager Category.
Also, another finalist from Linden Manor was Amanda Morton, nominated in the Care Home Carer category.
Our final finalist was Westland’s Head of Care Michelle ‘Shelly’ Pirie.
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.
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