Thank you to everyone who submitted a nomination.
Our network/group judging panels have completed their scoring to determine their top three shortlist for each award category. We're pleased to share the shortlist below.
Next steps
The shortlisted nominees will now be scored by a central judging panel made up of colleagues from various levels and professions, board members, people with lived experience and governors.
The three overall finalists for each category will be announced in September, with the winner announced at a special sponsorship-funded ceremony in November.
Brilliant partnership
Mental health network:
- Oldham memory assessment service, Dr Kershaw's Hospice and Age UK Oldham
- Tameside early intervention team, The Anthony Seddon Fund, Trust HQ colleagues, NHS Tameside and Glossop Talking Therapies and communications.
Only two submissions received.
Specialist network:
- Pennine Care learning disabilities care hub health inequality team and People First Tameside
- Oldham parent infant mental health service (PIMHS)
- Hope Unit and Cloughside College
Corporate services, central services, and services that work across more than one network
- Mental health urgent triage (MHUT) service - Pennine Care, Greater Manchester Mental Health, North West Ambulance Service, Greater Manchester Police, British Transport Police and voluntary community and social enterprise (VCSE) partners.
- Estates and facilities, apprenticeships, Oldham College and Hopwood College
- Pennine Care's individual placement and support service in partnership with Pure Innovations, Possibilities and The Growth Company
Community choice
Mental health network:
- Shawnelle Himsworth - Bury neighbourhood mental health team
- Dr Adeola Akinola - consultant psychiatrist, North ward
- Baba Babalola - deputy ward manager, North ward
Specialist network:
- Harriet Smith - transformation lead, rehab and high support
- Maddison Wood - CAMHS crisis team, Oldham
- Noreen Malik - cognitive behavioural therapist / registered mental health nurse, NHS Bury Talking Therapies
No community choice nominations were received for corporate, central and trustwide services (that work across more than one network).
Colleague of the year
Mental health network:
- Rachel Atkins - charge nurse, Woodbank unit
- Charlotte Leahy - medical secretary, Oldham neighbourhood mental health team
- Donna Klyz - housekeeper, North ward
Specialist network:
- Julie Lomax - assistant team manager, community learning disability
- Dr Alison Wood - consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, community eating disorders service
- Jenny Jones - Greater Manchester senior clinical lead for learning disabilities and health inequalities, learning disability care hub
Corporate services, central services, and services that work across more than one network:
- Jane Power - data analyst manager, risk and compliance team
- Leah Bradbury - domestic staff, Cedar ward
- George Hayes - estates and facilities compliance manager, capital, estates and facilities team
Great improvement
Mental health network:
- Dr Helen Kay - consultant psychiatrist, Bury mental health services
- Carer support team – within Oldham early intervention team
- The Oldham care hub
Specialist network:
- Leander Nield - cognitive behavioural therapist, Bury mental health support team
- Kate Thomason and the NHS Tameside and Glossop talking therapies team
- Geoff Howard - operational manager, CAMHS
Corporate services, central services, and services that work across more than one network:
- Enhanced therapeutic observations care team
- The culture of care programme (Arden, Aspen, Norbury and Oak wards)
- Adele Terry - improvement practitioner, improvement team
Inclusion champion
Mental health network:
- Rebecca Battle - activity co-ordinator, North ward
- Reuben Bainbridge - healthcare support worker, Woodbank unit
- Benjamin Shaw - consultant psychiatrist, Older people's mental health services, Stockport
Specialist network:
- Primary care assistant practitioners learning disability care hub
- Panita Chouhan - family ambassador, CAMHS
- Harriet Smith - engagement lead, rehab and high support quality team
Corporate services, central services, and services that work across more than one network:
- Neurodiverse staff network
- Ike Onyenaobia - student nursing associate, South ward
- Rebecca Ratican and Laura Prince, North network
Inspirational leader
Mental health network:
- Clare Gaduzo - quality matron, south network
- Vanessa Farrington - ward manager, Woodbank unit
- Farah Savrat - clinical lead, South ward
Specialist network:
- Cheralyn Bratley - service manager, Hope unit
- Mark Wood - operational manager, young people's mental health support team
- Rebecca Beckford - service lead, Radcliffe place
Corporate services, central services, and services that work across more than one network:
- Jo Taylor and Alison Kendall, transformation directors, strategic delivery hub
- Katy Fisher - head of patient safety and clinical effectiveness, patient safety team
- Dr Miranda Budd - associate network director, psychological therapies
Ray of sunshine
Mental health network:
- Heather Kennerk - ward clerk, Rosewood ward
- Emma Lazenbury - occupational therapy assistant, Cedars ward
- Rachel Szita - carer champion, Oldham community mental health team
Specialist network:
- Alexis Muller - admin, Stockport Talking Therapies
- Maddie Wareing - peer support worker, Rochdale community learning disabilities team
- Charlotte Royales - education mental health practitioner, Oldham mental health support team
Corporate services, central services, and services that work across more than one network:
- Wes Partington and Liz Tucker - Pennine Care Charity
- Paul Devaney - discharge co-ordinator, Stockport inpatient wards
- Rachel Walsh - domestic staff, Beech ward
Rising star
Mental health network:
- Jennifer Shaw - employment advisor, Talking Therapies
- Charlotte Wilcock - ward manager, Saxon ward
- Rachel Price-Uden - social work apprentice, Stockport home treatment team
Specialist network:
- Vicky O'Brien - assistant practioner, Bury adults community learning disability team
- Rebecca Crosbie - education mental health practitioner, Bury mental health support team
- Katie Rhodes - senior education mental health practitioner, Oldham mental health support team
Corporate services, central services, and services that work across more than one network:
- Danielle Lord - service manager, mental health urgent triage
- Ikechukwu Onyenaobia - apprentice student nursing associate, CAMHS
- Conor Gallogly - project manager, strategic delivery hub
Team of the year
Mental health network:
- Woodbank Unit
- Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale older people’s home intensive treatment team (HITS)
- Ramsbottom Ward
Specialist network:
- #Thrive
- Oldham parent infant mental health service (PIMHS)
- Rehabilitation and high support psychology
Corporate services, central services, and services that work across more than one network:
- Trust-wide health-based place of safety team
- Student nursing associate (SNA) education and workforce development team
- The safeguarding team
Questions
If you have any questions about our awards, please get in touch:
- Organisation development team: email pcn-tr.odteam.penninecare@nhs.net
- Communications and design team: email pcn-tr.communications.penninecare@nhs.net, phone 0161 716 1335. Pennine Care colleagues can call Helen Lord on MS Teams.