Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s Facing the Future Together (FTFT) Staff Awards ceremony took place on the morning of 12 September at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.  The Awards recognise and thank individual staff and teams within the Partnership for ‘going the extra mile’ in their work within a number of categories, especially in situations when they or their service have been under additional pressure or when they have implemented an improvement idea that has yielded significant benefit.

Susanne Millar, Chief Officer, Planning, Strategy and Commissioning and Chief Social Work Officer announced the award nominations, and David Williams, Chief Officer and Councillor Mhairi Hunter, Vice Chair of the Integration Joint Board, presented awards to winners and commendations to staff recognised within the following categories.

Our Patients, Service Users and Carers

This Award is for support to the people who we work with and for going the extra mile to meet their social care and/or health needs.

The Our Patients, Service Users and Carers category had two commended projects.

The first commendation was awarded to:

The Rossdale Resource Centre Weight Watchers Classes. The team provides a multidisciplinary mental health service to adults with severe and enduring mental health problems. Many of the patients are significantly overweight and staff arranged for weight watchers classes to take place in the Centre.

The second commended project was:

The Welfare Rights Appeals Team who provide free representation at all types of social security appeal tribunals.

The Winner of the Our Patients, Service Users and Carers category was

The Govanhill & East Pollokshields Community Swimming Programme, provided by the South Locality Health Improvement Team who have worked collaboratively with Govanhill Baths Community Trust to improve access to swimming lessons and swimming opportunities for people in the area who are experiencing a range of barriers to taking part in swimming.

The next category was

Our People, for supporting a positive workforce where staff feel listened to and valued or going the extra mile to support the people who we work with to meet their needs and improve our services, with an emphasis on joint, collaborative working.

The Our People category had one commended team.

The Rossdale Resource Centre Staff and Crisis Team Staff who successfully managed a serious incident at the Resource Centre earlier this year.

The winner of the Our People category was

The Speech and Language Therapy Care Homes Team who provide assessment, advice and treatment to older people with swallowing and/or communication problems living within care homes (residential and nursing) across Glasgow City and other Greater Glasgow and Clyde areas.

The next category was

Our Leaders, for leading and managing with vision and imagination, with a drive to do things differently, provide a better service and improve outcomes for our patients, service users, carers and other stakeholders, with an emphasis on joint, collaborative working.

The winner was Barbara Adzajlic who has been working with a real passion and vision in the area of Gender Based Violence within the North East Locality Health Improvement Team.

The next category was

Our Resources, for improving the way in which we as a Partnership do things with our resources so that we are better at what we do to meet people’s needs (e.g., staff, buildings, equipment and information).

We had two winners in the Our Resources category.

Our first winner was

The Pre Assessment and Review Clinics (PARC), which works with patients accessing a health care professional for bladder problems.

Our second winner in the Our Resources category was

Can You ‘Ear’ Me, an innovative approach to ear care, avoiding unnecessary avoidable ear irrigation by staff from North East Locality Community Nursing.

The next Category was

Our Culture, for contributing to developing a partnership culture where there is more listening, more reflection and better working in our own teams and with other teams.

The Our Culture category had one commended project. The South Health Improvement Team and Criminal Justice Team was commended for embracing the Partnership and working collaboratively to target resources and services at individuals involved in the criminal justice system.

The Winner of the Our Culture category was the

EU/Roma Health Team Immunisation Project who work with a wide range

of community services to increase the number of EU/Roma citizens who engage in the vaccination programme.

Susanne Millar then announced the overall Facing the Future Together Award Winner as the

Govanhill & East Pollokshields Community Swimming Programme.

Susanne said: “Huge congratulations to all winners, and nominees. I see first-hand the brilliant work you do and the difference it makes to our service users, their families and carers. It is right that we acknowledge your excellent service and today’s event is a great way to do this.”