Celebrating Success - Staff Awards 2022

Employee of the Year

Leader of the Year

Best Supporting Role

Improving our Workplace

Team of the Year 

Innovation of the Year 

Community Involvement Award

Chief Officer's Award

Employee of the Year 

Douglas Johnston - Choose Life Coordinator

Douglas has worked for Renfrewshire HSCP since 2009 as the Choose Life Suicide Prevention Coordinator. His personal attributes include hard working, proficient, and dynamic innovative and demonstrates this within his day to day work.

Douglas makes a significant difference to not only the staff but the people of Renfrewshire.

Douglas recognises that suicide prevention is a community issue therefore when addressing this he reaches beyond mental health services. This is achieved by offering suicide prevention training programme to "anyone who lives and / or works within Renfrewshire", as well as engaging community groups and other wider initiatives.

Leader of the Year

Patricia Wetherall - Care Home Manager, Renfrew Care Home

Patricia is a remarkable individual. During the pandemic, she put in long hours supporting staff, families and residents by listening to their concerns, emotions at a time that was very distressing.

She is a dedicated manager who gives every task 100% and more. Patricia ensures staff have the opportunity to re-evaluate practice skills so that going forward they excel in their job.

Admiration is a word many would use, she is a hard worker, reliable, honest and nothing slows her down.

Best Supporting Role

Angela Riddell - Change and Improvement Officer

Angela is an asset to the HSCP. She shows drive and commitment every day in the delivery of Renfrewshire's Primary Care Improvement Plan and our clinical care governance arrangements.

She consistently goes above and beyond to provide the best possible support to colleagues and GPs, with a consistent focus on improving outcomes for local people.

All of Angela's colleagues continue to praise her contribution and recognise that they could not do their own jobs without her input.

Improving our Workplace

James Higgins - Corporate Business Officer

It's hard to explain the difference James makes as it isn't just one thing it is a combination of all that he does and how he does it.

Over the past couple of years he has been instrumental in ensuring PPE was available for both our own staff and our external providers - including phone calls late at night and at the weekend to source supplies when they were at risk. He has also stepped in to cover a number of roles over the period as well as still managing to do his day job.

Team of the Year 

Mirin and Milldale Day Opportunities 

Mirin and Milldale Day Opportunities, are two of our Adult Learning Disability Day Services. The teams support adults with learning disabilities to live their lives as fully as possible. Normally this is facilitated using their building bases and integrating with other community groups. 

The Teams continued to deliver services to Renfrewshire's most vulnerable residents throughout the pandemic all while creating and adapting to new ways of delivering the service including technology. 

They enabled service users to enjoy something akin to their normal service while allowing their parents/carers to maintain some of their routines. Staff were constantly providing reassurance, counselling and promoting a positive atmosphere to allow the lifeline service to continue. 

Innovation of the Year

Community Safety Service (Community Mental Health)

The Community Safety Team support wider agencies within Renfrewshire, providing easier access to mental health services.

As a team of Mental Health Nurses, they have made such a difference for other services having access to a mental health resource, providing support to wider staff network within Renfrewshire. They also hold a caseload for individuals to complete short term pieces of work and support individuals in mental health recovery.

Together they demonstrate great teamwork, effective communication, expertise and decision making whilst providing high quality recovery focused patient care and interagency working.

Community Involvement

Gateway ISS (Intensive Support Service), Learning Disabilities

Gateway is a registered service which offers a therapeutic environment for individuals with Autism, complex needs and learning disability.

Gateway introduced an initiative called 'It's a Game Changer'. They looked to find innovative and creative ways to link up with council lead initiatives and local organisations to explore greater community involvement. They aim to remove barriers and overcome obstacles and difficulties with inclusion.

Gateway boasts a dynamic staff team that goes above and beyond what is expected of them, to meet high outcomes and goals for the people they support. They are highly skilled, trained, motivated, creative and innovative team.

Chief Officer's Award

Renfrewshire Care Home Staff 

The Care Home Staff at all levels have shown outstanding teamwork during some of the most uncertain times this generation has ever seen. They went above and beyond what was expected from them, providing extra love, care, and support.

The residents and staff became a blended family when lockdown happened. Staff had to think fast but also take their time learning new skills to make sure they were getting it right. Not only were staff taking on extra shifts and coming in early to cover shifts, they also had to learn new ways of working.

Because there were no visiting, care home staff became the link between residents and their families, Staff at all levels continue to do an outstanding job and they deserve recognition for the care and support they shown to residents on a day-to-day basis for the last couple of years.