- Gold and silver awards will recognise outstanding
contribution to adult social care
- The award will bring recognition to social care workers
in line with NHS workforce awards
Professor Deborah Sturdy has today (Wednesday 19 May)
outlined her commitment to recognise the outstanding
contribution made by social care workers and nurses in
England and their enormous range of skills, expertise and
enduring compassion.
The awards will mirror the Chief Nursing Officer Ruth May’s
awards for the NHS, and aim to celebrate nurses and care
workers in adult social care who go above and beyond their
everyday roles to provide excellent care, leadership and
inspiration.
Presented as gold and silver awards, they represent an
important step towards bringing recognition in line with
the NHS workforce and recognise the extraordinary
commitment of the adult social care workforce.
Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care Professor Deborah Study
said:
The pandemic has shone a light on the exemplary efforts
of our dedicated social care workforce, and I am
committed to ensuring we recognise the selfless hard work
they do day in and day out.
The social care workforce more than ever continues to
demonstrate unwavering compassion, professionalism and
dedication. Not only during the pandemic but every year.
I am extremely proud to present these awards to
colleagues in social care which reflect those for
colleagues in the NHS.
These individual awards recognise exceptional practice
and care and rightly give recognition, acknowledgement
and appreciation that those individuals deserve.
The awards come at an important time, to celebrate the huge
contribution of the nursing and wider care workforce in the
past year as well as building on the system-wide
collaboration across health and social care we’ve seen
during the pandemic.
Minister for Care said:
Our social care workforce has shown such courage in the
last year caring for our most vulnerable during one of
the most challenging periods many will ever experience.
I am thrilled to see the launch of these awards and look
forward to seeing the deserving recipients.
This new award is the first of its kind for adult social
care and is open to the workforce from all settings and
parts of the sector.
The awards will be on an application basis and awarded
throughout the year.
Nominations will be considered by a panel of NHS and adult
social care chief nursing officers and adult social care
sector representatives. The Chief Nurse for Adult Social
Care aims to present the first award later this year.
The gold award will recognise outstanding achievements and
performance demonstrated by a nurse or social care worker
in their sphere of practice. This may be clinical practice,
education, research or leadership. The award recognises the
exceptional contribution by an individual with a
distinguished career in nursing or social care.
The silver award recognises performance that goes above and
beyond the expectations of the everyday role that the nurse
or social care worker is expected to perform. Again, this
could be demonstrated in education, research, patient and
carer experience, leadership, tackling diversity and health
inequalities, and could be awarded to either an individual
or a team.
The awards will not be limited to registered nurses and
will be extended to include all carers across all care
settings, not only care homes.
Applications are available as a form which should be
supported by 2 signatories:
