Janet Rowse, chief executive of Sirona, is on the lookout for people to tell her about members of staff who have gone that extra mile to make a real difference for you or a loved one.
Sirona care & health provides specialist community health and adult social care in Bath and North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire and surrounding areas.
With 2000+ staff working for the NHS and local authority funded organisation, each year it celebrates the outstanding achievements, hard work and dedication of its employees at the Sirona Awards for Excellence.
Nominations for the ‘I think they deserve it award’ are invited from the communities served by Sirona; it could be the nurse who visits daily, the receptionist who greets visitors with a smile or the team who has enabled a loved one to be cared for at home rather than hospital.
Last year Midsomer-Norton based support worker Suzanne Morys, who helped a woman with long-standing mental health problems, turn her life around was presented with the Sirona Award for Excellence 2014.
She was also awarded the I think they deserve it award along with Sally-Anne Bauer, community matron for Kingswood, near Bristol.
Sally-Anne was nominated by a recently bereaved widow who told how her husband’s last wish was to be able to remain at home for as long as possible.
In 2013 it was won by district nurse Stella Wainwright, from Bath, who also scooped the top prize of the Sirona Award for Excellence 2013 for her care of a family at the end of a loved one’s life after being nominated by a local resident.
Janet said: “It is important we care with compassion but for Sirona it is also about helping those we care for have control over their lives and for staff taking someone’s care personally. We know one size doesn’t fit all.
“Our awards are a way of saying thank you to our staff and to recognise the contribution that staff have made to our success and, more importantly, to the lives of those who use our services.
“I want to hear about the difference staff are making and who better than those who use our services to put forward nominations for this category?
“It really can be for anything that has made a real difference to you – we want you to tell us why they deserve it!”
There are lots of ways you can nominate via the website www.sirona-cic.org.uk, email [email protected] or write to Sirona Awards for Excellence 2015, St Martin’s Hospital, Clara Cross Lane, Bath, BA2 5RP. The closing date is July 31 2015.
