Staff honoured at awards ceremony (From Redditch Advertiser)
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Staff honoured at awards ceremony
11:52am Thursday 12th March 2009 in News
REDDITCH and Bromsgrove people were among Worcestershire PCT’s star staff recognised at an awards ceremony.
More than 200 people helped congratulate their colleagues at the PCT’s Long Service and Staff Achievement Awards at Worcester Rugby Club.
In the staff achievement awards, Liz Spooner, a specialist speech and language therapist, and Jacqui Woodock, team leader for speach and language in Redditch and Bromsgrove, were given the Innovation Award.
The question of why children find it so hard to listen was put to Worcestershire PCT’s speech and language therapy team so frequently that Liz and Jacqui decided to find out why.
The result was a new approach to teaching listening skills in schools which has been hugely successful. As a result they have been asked to train schools out of the county and train speech and language therapists from across the UK.
The Partnership Working Award was given to Worcestershire Prisons’ Healthcare Team, based at HMP Hewell in Tardebigge and HMP Long Lartin, for demonstrating excellent partnership working with many organisations.
A PCT spokseman said: “The delivery of high standard care to a very vulnerable and socially excluded group depends on the daily ability of team members to work with the prison, the criminal justice system, the PCT, external social and healthcare agencies and the Acute Trust.
“WPHT literally works locked within the walls of another organisation. Working within a different culture with different priorities is a daily test of the skills of the team at partnership working but WPHT has earned the prison service’s respect.
“Partnership working for a single patient with complex problems may include working with prison officers, prison governors, solicitors, probation services, community GPs, external healthcare providers and the patient’s family.
“This is partnership working for the benefit of patients in action.”
