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Annual Awards 2026: Nominations Form

Do you know an AWP member of staff or team that is a shining example?
Our staff are a wonderful collection of people who provide care and support, promote recovery and give hope to our service users every day.
Each year staff come together in celebration of the achievements of their colleagues, their commitment to delivering the Trust values and the high quality, compassionate care they provide to patients. The awards are an opportunity to recognise the truly remarkable staff who have gone above and beyond in their role to make a positive difference to the care of our patients.
Nominees will be shortlisted against the award criteria by a panel of judges, and the three finalists in each category will be invited to attend the awards ceremony, where our winners will be announced, on Friday 27 November 2026.
Please note:
1. Nominations must reflect the work of AWP staff (substantive and bank) during 2025.
2. To be eligible, nominees must work for AWP and not partner organisations.
3. Should a nominee leave AWP between the time of nominating and the Annual Awards ceremony, they will no longer be eligible for consideration.
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For access to a BSL interpreter please use this link: https://mainswitchboard.signvideo.net and ask Trust switchboard to relay your nomination to the Annual Awards team.

Do you need support to make a nomination? Please contact the Annual Awards team at: awp.staffawardnominations@nhs.net

We invite you to submit nominations for individuals and/or teams in the following categories (listed in alphabetical order):
The categories for the Annual Awards are listed below:

Bank Employee of the Year – Individual Award
This award is presented to an exceptional individual who works solely for the AWP bank. They provide unwavering support to their team and demonstrate professional skill. They adapt to new challenges and situations whilst modelling their commitment to the delivery of outstanding care to service users.

Compassionate Care (Clinical) – Individual or Team Award
This award is presented to a registered clinician or clinical team who show extraordinary compassion to meet the individual needs of service users, carers and their families. They demonstrate kindness and appreciation for others in all aspects of their work, and involve service-users in every step of their care.

Compassionate Care (Corporate & Non-Clinical) – Individual or Team Award
This award is presented to a corporate or non-clinical individual or team who show extraordinary compassion to support meeting the individual needs of service users, carers and their families. They demonstrate kindness and appreciation for others in all aspects of their work.

Compassionate Care (Estates & Facilities) – Individual or Team Award
This award is presented to an individual or team within the Estates and Facilities divisions who show extraordinary compassion to support meeting the individual needs of service users, carers and their families. They demonstrate kindness and appreciation for others in all aspects of their work.

Empowering and Inclusive Practice – Individual or Team Award
This award is presented to an individual or team who has driven and promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in their area of work. They have a positive attitude and show a strong commitment to valuing differences and including members of minority groups and those who might otherwise be excluded or marginalised.

Involvee of the Year – Individual or Team Award
This award is presented to an individual involvee or group of involvees who make a real difference to the lives of our patients and/or carers. They will have improved the wellbeing of our patients on the wards or in the community by working in partnership with staff to make improvements in care and services.

Leader of the Year – Individual Award
This award is presented to an individual who demonstrates exceptional leadership skills to drive and support the ambition of AWP to be outstanding. They inspire, motivate and develop their team, whilst role modelling our AWP PRIDE values: Passion, Respect, Integrity, Diversity and Excellence.

Learner of the Year – Individual Award
This award is presented to an individual who has demonstrated dedication to their learning, and has used their education or training to develop their capabilities and skills to make a real difference to the quality of services, service user care, or experience.
Making a Difference (Clinical) – Individual or Team Award
This award is presented to a registered clinician or clinical team who are loyal, committed and flexible and you know you can rely on them to get the job done. They demonstrate our AWP PRIDE values every day, and they regularly go beyond the expectations of their role to support services users, families, carers and/or colleagues.

Making a Difference (Corporate & Non-Clinical) – Individual or Team Award
This award is presented to a corporate or non-clinical individual or team who are loyal, committed and flexible and you know you can rely on them to get the job done. They demonstrate our AWP PRIDE values every day, and they regularly go beyond the expectations of their role to support services users, families, carers and/or colleagues.

Making a Difference (Estates & Facilities) – Individual or Team Award
This award is presented to an individual or team within the Estates and Facilities divisions who are loyal, committed and flexible and you know you can rely on them to get the job done. They demonstrate our AWP PRIDE values every day, and they regularly go beyond the expectations of their role to support services users, families, carers and/or colleagues.

Quality Improvement, Innovation and Co-production – Individual or Team Award
This award is presented to an individual or team who have been involved in quality improvement or innovation for the benefit of patients or service delivery, and who have embraced co-production to work in equal partnership with people with lived experience in designing and implementing change.

Rising Star – Individual Award
This award is presented to an individual who has been internally appointed into their current post, or joined AWP during 2025. They have fitted into their role well, shown a keen willingness to learn, and are already going above and beyond expectations – securing their place as a vital asset to their team and the organisation.

Team of the Year – Team Award
This award is presented to the best AWP team of 2025 and is open to any team of any size. The winning team demonstrates our AWP PRIDE values every day, and they go that extra mile to make a real difference to the lives of patients and carers and the other teams they work with, both in and out of AWP.
Please select the award category that you wish to nominate in:(Required.)
Full name of person completing the nomination(Required.)
Email address of person completing the nomination(Required.)
Are you an AWP member of staff?(Required.)
Are you nominating an individual or team?(Required.)
Full name of individual/team being nominated(Required.)
What locality does the individual/team work in?(Required.)
What team does this individual work in? (Skip question if nominating a team)
AWP email address of the individual/team being nominated(Required.)
Please select the statement which best described your relationship with the person you are nominating(Required.)