At MCHFT we want to recognise, celebrate, and provide an opportunity to showcase the fantastic achievements, hard-work and dedication that our colleagues deliver day to day. Accordingly, we have launched the ‘Because You Matter Awards’ which are centred around our Trust values and behaviours. Celebrating those who consistently demonstrate behaviours which improve patient outcomes and experiences and help to make MCHFT the best place to work.
How will the awards work?
Staff, patients and visitors are able to nominate colleagues under each of the categories on a monthly basis by completing the simple and easy to use online form (found above).
A centralised panel will meet monthly to review the nominations and select monthly winners. Monthly winners will all become semi-finalists for the annual Trust awards, alongside other individuals shortlisted from pre-existing recognition schemes.
Our annual ‘Because You Matter Awards’ will identify one outstanding individual or team from each category.
Submitting a nomination
When submitting your nomination, please provide as much detail as possible on how you felt the individual or team went above and beyond for you, the trust, a friend or family member or in what they did and/or how they contributed to broader pieces of work. Be clear as to;
- What stood out for you?
- How did it make your or someone else’s experience of care, visit or day at work more positive?
- How it added value for our patients, visitors or colleagues, work or community?
- How did the team or individual contribute to the overall success of the project, piece of work or care provided?
If you do have any queries, please feel free to contact OD
Categories
Compassionate Culture Award
Compassion is at the heart of what we do. Its fundamentally about seeking to truly understand the diverse needs and views of others, putting aside judgement with a fair and equitable approach. Role modelling courage, support and helpfulness to do the right thing in what can be challenging circumstances.
The compassionate culture award seeks to recognise those who role model this virtue consistently in all that they do. Acting in ways which support and build a compassionate culture through their actions, approach, and mindset creating a psychologically safe place for all, enabling others to bring their real and true self to work.
Inspiring Leader Award
This category aims to celebrate those who inspire others to follow their example, consistently role modelling values and behaviours which support the trust to be a great place to work and receive care. Through their compassionate, inclusive, and collaborative style they empower and engage others to action, striving for the best outcomes always.
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They are a positive role model, inspiring others to lead and act by their own example
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Significantly invests in others, supporting, empowering, and enabling them to reach their potential
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Their personal leadership, helped to shape and improve culture; ways of working; relationships or development in some way
Aspiring for Excellence Award
Learning helps to improve the collective knowledge of the organisation. By supporting people to develop and grow, we develop colleagues to be the right people in the right place with the right skills to deliver excellent patient care.
Accordingly, this category aims to recognise those who have demonstrated dedication and drive to push the boundaries of their development through their dedication to learning and/or continued personal growth. Nominees in this category display strong accountability for their personal development and are able to display this through their achievements.
Improvement Matters Award
An improver approach means that we truly strive for more, always seeking opportunities to develop, refine and sometimes redesign what we do to ensure that we are always moving forwards and delivering better outcomes day by day. Accordingly, this category aims to celebrate those who have role modelled the improvement mindset and supported MCHFT to strive for more.
Employee of the Month Award
An individual who consistently demonstrates that they live the trust values, displaying compassion, respect, and dignity in all that they do and through commitment to quality of care. They have exceeded expectations and made an important contribution toward enabling the trust to deliver its ambitions
Better Together Award
This category is equivalent to a team of the month award. Recognising teams, areas, projects or groups which have demonstrated how we achieve more and are better together, when we collaborate, share ideas, views and experiences producing better, more diverse outcomes for colleagues and patients. It aims to recognise collaborations, which have embraced partnership working for the betterment of the organisation or the system.
Pride of Mid Cheshire Community Award
It takes support and dedication beyond our immediate workforce to help make MCHFT a great asset to our community, delivering the excellent care that it does. This award recognises those who dedicate their time to support MCHFT and the wider community and people therein to thrive.
Quality & Safety Ambassador Award
This category aims to recognise teams or individuals who place quality, care and safety at the heart of everything they do. This is someone who brings the Trust's listening organisation vision to life utilising feedback tools to champion quality and safety in relation to patient care and experiences.
This category also recognises those who demonstrate active listening to colleague voice and value diverse contributions to co-create psychological safety in the workplace and actively support the Trust's freedom to speak up initiative improving colleague experiences.
You Matter Award
(Previously known as the Health and Wellbeing Ambassador Award)
For MCHFT to be a great place to work, which delivers excellent care, we need colleagues to be healthy, well and bringing their best self to work. This requires emotionally aware colleagues who demonstrate and promote healthy wellbeing practices and self-compassion. As such this category aims to recognise those who have contributed towards a healthy workplace by looking the health and wellbeing of themselves and their colleagues.
This category would also look to recognise those who role model the value and importance of colleague voice & those who actively seek to empower staff to have their voices heard through the many communication and feedback tools available at the Trust.
