Shining star award
Awards
The Shining Star Award celebrates our outstanding staff for their great work. Help us recognise the people who make our Trust shine!
Anyone can submit a nomination.
Every day our staff deliver excellent care in homes, in clinics, and in communities. Many of our colleagues go far beyond expectations. They are kind, comforting, and committed.
The Shining Star Award celebrates our outstanding staff for their great work.
There are lots of reasons to nominate a shining star. They could have been very kind to you or a family member. They might have provided you with great support. They may always be positive and professional.
Nominate your Shining Star. Let them know how much their commitment means to our communities.
Anyone can submit a nomination.
How to nominate
You can nominate a person, multiple people or an entire team.
Your nominee must:
- have had a positive impact on you, no matter how big or small
- work for East of England Community Health and Care Services, this includes:
- Adult Healthcare (Bedfordshire, Luton and Norfolk)
- Children and Young People's Healthcare (Bedfordshire and Luton, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Norfolk and Waveney)
- Dental Healthcare (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough)
- DynamicHealth (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough)
- iCaSH (Bedfordshire and Luton, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Norfolk and Waveney)
Shining Star Award Nomination Form
Shining Star Award Winners
Congratulations to Stacey Quirke and Nikki Grant from the Family Nurse Partnership in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have been selected as our Shining Stars for June.
The Shining Star award is a monthly award decided by the executive team which recognises the commitment and dedication of staff members who give a service that is over and above what is expected of them in order to make a difference to patients, visitors and/or their colleagues.
Stacey and Nikki have been recognised as Shining Star Award winners following a heartfelt nomination from a teenage service user who describes them as exceptional family nurses and genuinely wonderful people. They were praised for their kindness, patience, and the way they consistently made both mother and baby feel valued and supported during an incredibly challenging period involving complex family circumstances. Stacey and Nikki became trusted advocates and a vital part of the service user’s support network. They provided unwavering emotional support, guidance with housing, and compassionate assistance through lots of difficult meetings. Their consistent, non-judgemental approach helped the service user recognise her own strengths, build confidence, and reflect on her experiences. As a result of their dedication and care, both mother and baby are now in a far more positive place, with the patient crediting the service as life-changing and instrumental in her journey to becoming the parent she is today.
The duo will receive a special ‘Shining Star’ certificate and voucher from a member of the executive team.
Other nominees for June:
Amanda Owen - Inpatient services, Norfolk
Karen Poloka - 0-19 HCP Team Cambridgeshire
Sarah Sheppard - Infant Feeding Team - North Locality
Sharna Bird - Urgent Community Response Team South
Emma Lewin - Heart failure North
Sarah Sutcliffe - Heart Failure Central
Amanda Maylor - Children's Occupational Therapy, Cambridgeshire
Keely Burgess - DynamicHealth Huntingdon
Peterborough 0-19 Healthy Child Programme
Catherine Schunmann - iCaSH, Rowan House, Norfolk
Neave Wilkinson - Ogden Court, Community Beds and Systems Operations
Lisa Emerson - Healthy Child Service, East of England Community Health and Care
Kevin Boyle - MSK Doddington hospital
Karin Bibby - Family Nurse Partnership, Norfolk CYP Health Service
Nicola Dobson - Community Palliative Care Team Pricilla Bacon Lodge Norwich
Claire Wiseman - IBCLC South Norfolk Assistant Practitioner Infant Feeding Lactation Consultant
Susannah Cousins - Dietetics
Oliver Barrett - UCR Care West
Rebecca Wallace - Inpatient services
Sherri Tredray - Dental Healthcare - Suffolk Nash House Ipswich
Rachelle Garcia - Operations Manager, System Operations, Community Beds
Anna Bondare and the Clinical Systems team - Clinical Systems Team
Liezl Alfeldi - Children's Speech and Language Therapy, Cambridge, Peacock Centre
Donna Todd - Ketts CN&T
Helen Hawkins - UCR
Congratulations to our very first Shining Star
Congratulations to Aneta Skorodzillo, who is based at Foxley Ward at Dereham Hospital and has been selected as our very first Shining Star for East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust.
Aneta was selected from some incredible nominations, her nomination represented a true Shining Star because she inspired and empowered a colleague to rediscover their professional potential, providing unwavering encouragement and guidance on their journey from clinical support worker to registered nurse.
Aneta was nominated by Ana-Maria Nacu, who said; "She saw potential in me long before I could see it in myself and gave me the confidence to become the nurse I am today."
Through her honesty, compassion, and steadfast belief in others, Aneta consistently helps people overcome self-doubt and achieve their goals. She invests her time and energy into developing those around her, demonstrating outstanding leadership.
Other nominees for May:
- Kerry Pueschel - Downham Market and Swaffham Community Therapy Team
- Lorna Lacey - Adult Community Nutrition and Dietetics, Bedfordshire, and Luton
- Ericia Davies - South Norfolk - Beauchamp Community Nurses
- Cath Metcalfe and Chloe Skinner - UCR Therapy West, Norfolk
- Mill Lodge Staffing Team - Norfolk & Waveney Children and Young People's Services
- Louise Nicholson - North Urgent Community Response Team
- Joanne Taylor - East Norwich Neighbourhood
- Sorrel Read - Community Specialist Palliative Care
- Tracy Taylor and Wendy Lewis - Priscilla Bacon Lodge, Norwich
- Gemma Holland, Amy Bilham and Gemma Rudd - UCR West
- Bridie Gray, Caitlin Daniels, Tiff Chandler, Sarah Barber - North Place - NN1 Community Nursing Team
- Samantha Bray - Starfish Nurse-Led Medication Pathway and Starfish Therapeutic Pathway
- Rowan Peckham - 0-19 Team and Oak Tree, Huntingdon
- Infant Advisors - Joanna Restall, Genevieve Hughes, Charlotte Thulborn, Kelly Akers, Sarah Sheppard, and Anita Ribbons - Infant feeding Team - HCP, Children's Directorate
- June Greenway - Epilepsy Team, Norfolk
- Hamza Haji - Finance Team
- Kate Pridham - Home First Hub West
- Soham HCP staff - Healthy Child Programme - South Cambridgeshire
- Mohammed Bari - Insight and Intelligence
- Michelle Marshall - NHSP/ Luton Children's/ L&D Daisy Ward
