Deadline: 17-Sep-21
Lincolnshire Care Association is inviting nominations for the 2021 Lincolnshire Care Awards to celebrate the care workers and organisations across Lincolnshire whose work makes a difference to the lives of others, every single day.
Lincolnshire Care Association is honoured to give these deserving teams and individuals their time in the spotlight, and to celebrate all they do for Lincolnshire’s most precious and vulnerable people. Winners will be announced at a black-tie gala night on Thursday 24th March 2022 at Lincoln’s County Assembly Rooms.
Categories and Criteria
- Community Care Award: This award recognises the significant role of the Home Care Worker or Personal Assistant in consistently providing a high-quality standard for people living in their own homes.
- Residential Care Award: This award recognises the significant role of the Care Home Worker in consistently providing a high-quality standard for people living in residential care.
- Nursing and Nurse Associate in Social Care Award: They are looking for a Nurse or Nurse Associate within a residential or community-based service. Do you have an individual who uses expertise, clinical and technical knowledge to deliver effective care and treatment and has shown that they are committed to person centred care and quality support of the individuals that they care for?
- Healthy Nutrition Award: This award recognises the “whole home approach” to food and nutrition within the care home, enhancing health and wellbeing through great food.
- Registered Manager Award: This award recognises a Registered Care Home or Home Care Manager who has demonstrated a high level of expertise together with exceptional skills in managing the complex business of running a care home or home care business.
- Frontline Leader Award: This award will be given to a person who is a supervisor, senior care worker, team leader or a first-time manager. They should show a clear commitment to improving the delivery of care and support within their team.
- Rising Star Award: Do you have a Rising Star in your organisation? They are looking for an individual who has worked in the care sector, in any setting for no more than 2 years and worked in their current role for no more than 1 year who, despite their short time in the sector shows real passion and has made a positive impact on the people they support.
- Workforce Development Award: This award will acknowledge the important role of the Trainer within the care service and looks for a person who has shown incredible enthusiasm and determination in identifying training and development needs of care staff, establishing rolling training programmes, searching for and gaining funding and proving their ability to enthuse and energise staff to attend and request training.
- Behind the Scenes Award: This award recognises excellent, person centred services, demonstrating dignity and respect through ancillary services. They are looking for an individual in a supporting role (e.g.: gardeners, care activity organiser, domestics, laundry assistants, handyperson, bus driver, administrator/receptionist, care activity organisers) who makes a real contribution to improving the quality of the lives of the people their organisation supports.
- Caring Together Award: This award recognises services and providers who demonstrate effective partnership working with unpaid family and friend carers. Do you help to identify, support and work with the person’s own family and friends to ensure the best person-centred care possible?
Rules
Nominations for the Lincolnshire Care Awards 2021 are subject to the following rules:
- The awards are intended to recognise individuals, small groups, personal assistants or volunteers working in care settings, nominations of whole care homes will not be accepted. If you would like to put forward a whole home for an award you can do this through the Skills for Care Accolades Awards, the Accolades are free to enter and attend.
- It is a condition of entry that finalists attend the judging panel in dates and venues to be arranged, October 2021.
- You may nominate the same individual for more than one category. Please submit a separate nomination for each category.
- Should the judges determine an entry submitted for one category is of greater relevance to another category, they may re-categorise that entry.
- Winners and Runners-Up of previous care awards are not eligible in the same category in 2021.
- Finalists attending the judging panels and Gala Award Evening will have the opportunity to have their photograph taken by the official photographer. Photographs may be used in publicity and media reporting.
- Finalists and winners will be expected to help the organisers publicise the Awards before and after the event. Publicity required may include taking part in interviews and photography/filming for printed, broadcast and digital media.
- Finalists will be notified by 5.00pm on 4th October 2021.
- Finalists, or their organisations, will be given priority to purchase tickets for theGala Awards Evening on 24th March 2022.
- Nominations are invited from service users and/or their families.
- The contact details contained in entries will not be shared outside Lincolnshire Care Association and its agents, unless permission is granted.
- Details of winners in certain categories will be submitted to the Great British Care Awards 2021 Regional Nominations.
For more information, visit https://www.linca.org.uk/careawards2021.asp