Staff awards 2014
After a warm welcome from Trust Chairman, Frances Street, the evening quickly got into full swing as Chief Executive Simon Gilby took out his phone and got the awards twitter feed underway with a celebratory twit pic #WCTawards.
Tissue Viability service – Clinical team of the year sponsored by Hill Dickinson.
Radio Merseysides Billy Butler hosted the presentations, keeping the crowd entertained with his legendary banter. The first award presented was ‘Customer & patient care’. Out of three shortlisted nominations, Wirral Heart Support won the coveted title. Next was ‘Best NEW initiative’. There was tough competition in this category. There was rapturous applause as Speech and Language Therapy walked away the winners for their Partnership in Early Years Communication programme. Rt Hon Esther Mcvey MP took to the stage to acknowledge the brilliant contribution from our volunteers by 12
foryou Spring 2014
presenting Volunteer of the year. Winner Sean Hancox, who worked tirelessly with Physiotherapy said: “I want to say thanks for the opportunity to help people. I really enjoyed coming down and helping with the rehabilitation classes, and it’s made me more determined to do well with my studies”. Volunteers Dave Bestwick and Chole WalkdenSmith were also thanked. Winner of Inspirational manager/ team leader of the year was Frieda Rimmer, who received a standing ovation from her team (Heart Support) as she went up to collect her trophy. Afterwards she said: “It’s overwhelming! The team has been around for a long time, we’ve worked
very hard and they are all absolutely passionate about what they do, and completely committed to the patients. Winning Inspirational Manager means so much to me because it came from the staff. I don’t have the words to describe how I feel, because they nominated me. I could never ask for more than that. It was a complete surprise”. Anticipation mounted for those still left in the remaining categories. Winner of Outstanding achievement, Sarah Love, said: “I’m absolutely thrilled, but it’s a team award for me, because I wouldn’t have done this without the support of our fantastic and talented Communications & Marketing team”.