2025 Shortlist	
		
	
We are proud to announce our Nursing Times Workforce Awards 2025 shortlist!
Thank you to everyone who entered and congratulations to our finalists! Each and every entry was truly inspiring and our judges were amazed by the calibre of entries this year. Your passion, dedication and innovative approaches are helping to shape the future of the nursing and healthcare workforce, and we are delighted to be able to recognise and celebrate your achievements.
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Leadership
					Sun Sander Jackson
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
					Sumitha Janaky					
Epsom and St Helier University Hospital NHS Trust	
		Minija (Mini) Joseph		
		King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	
		Joan Pons Laplana		
		NHS England	
		Simmi Naidu		
		Royal London Hospital	
		Chidinma Victory Oforji		
		University of Salford	
		Tanwa Ogbara		
		Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust	
		Joshi Prabhu		
		University of Salford	
		Hidden SMI Team		
		King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Gideon Agbemafle
		Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
Sabrina French
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust 
	
	Emma Addie	
	Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
	Timothy Cocklin	
	Royal Free London -North Middlesex Hospital
	Charlotte Coles	
	West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
	Alister D'souza	
	Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
	Karen Glover	
	Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
	Rachel Kent	
	The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
	Claire Livingstone	
	South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
	Laura Norton	
	North West Leicestershire GP Federation
	Priscilla Nzounhenda	
	Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
	Jennifer Riley	
	East Glade Centre
	Stephanie Smith	
	East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust	
	Maggie Maxfield	
	Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust	
	Alvaro Alla
	
	HCA Healthcare UK
	Sarita Dhamala- Bhatta
	
	Roundwood Ward- St Marks Hospital
	Lyndsey Dunn
	
	Fife Health and Social Care Partnership
	Carlo Examen
	
	HCA Healthcare UK
	Fiona Kenton
	
	London Bridge Hospital- Guy's Cancer Centre
	Katie Mashingaidze
	
	Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundations Trust
	Jay Morris
	
	Nuffield Health
	Florence Grace Parafina
	
	Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
	Christian Valenzuela
	
	Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
	Tracie Wilson
	
	Practice Plus Group, HMP YOI Brinsford 
	
Learning & Development
	Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Enhancing Paediatric Care of Post-op Patients Experiencing Emergence Delirium
	East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Career Pathways
	King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
	
	SpineCare Clinical Training for Nursing Professionals
	Lancashire & South Cumbria Primary Care Training Hub
	
	Primary Care Clinical Virtual Placement
	Lloyds Clinical
	
	Leadership & Management Academy
	NHSE London region - CapitalNurse
	
	Flexible Working: Getting it Right for your Team
	North Brink Practice
	
	Nursing & Healthcare Team Training and Development Plan
	Sue Ryder
	
	Safe, Skilled, Supported: Palliative Care Reimagined
	University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Preceptor September Workshops
	
	Kristle Bravo
	
	The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
	Liz Forster
	
	Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
	David Holland
	
	Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
	Sarah Kelly
	
	Alder Hey Children's Hospital
	Jane Laing
	
	Macmillan Cancer Support
	Maria Anthonette Gonzales Malbas
	
	East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
	Munashe Nyika
	
	HCA Healthcare UK
	Ruth Odukale
	
	South West London and St. George's Mental Health NHS Trust
	Ruth Wood
	
	Manchester Foundation NHS Trust and Manchester Metropolitan University
	Erica Worley
	
	The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
	
	
Dean Harrington-Phillips
Epsom and St Helier University Hospital NHS Trust
Sister Cecilia Lam
Neonatal Unit, London Northwest University Healthcare NHS Trust
Olawumi Ojo
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust
Laura Sumner
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
	Birmingham and Solihull mental health foundation trust
	
	Multiprofessional Preceptorship Programme
	Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
	
	InsideOut preceptorship programme
	Cheshire and Merseyside Training Hub
	
	GPN Preceptorship Programme
	East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
	
	Career Scaffolding for Pre & Post Registration Nursing
	East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT)
	
	Digital Interactive Preceptorship Programme
	Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust and Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Development and implementation of a postgraduate Preceptorship module
	Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
	
	Bespoke IEN Preceptorship Programme
	Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust - part of the University Hospitals of Liverpool Group
	
	Learning in Tandem: A Multi-professional Preceptorship Programme for Preceptees and Preceptors
	Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Flyer Preceptorship Programme
	Priory
	
	Preceptorship Programme
	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
	
	THRIVE Programme
	
	Abigayle Daniels
	
	Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
	Catherine Jenkins
	
	Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
	Victoria Kinmonth-Gordon
	
	Neonatal Unit, London Northwest University Healthcare NHS Trust
	Jonathan Opoku
	
	Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
	Danielle Owens
	
	London Northwest University Healthcare NHS Trust
	Mollie Urwin
	
	HMP Northumberland
	
Organisational
	243 Multi-Role Medical Regiment
	
	Blunt Truth
	Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Mentoring Circle Programme
	East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
	
	Greener Emergency Response System
	King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
	
	SpineLine: Nurse Led support for perioperative neurosurgery spine patients
	NHS England - North East and Yorkshire region (NEY)
	
	Next Generation Nursing North East and Yorkshire
	Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
	
	NSFT Sustainability Project
	North Bristol NHS Trust
	
	Commitment to our community
	Primary Care 24
	
	Health, Humanity, and Hope: A Workforce-Led Revolution in Social Responsibility
	Nightingale Hammerson
	
	Reach by Nightingale Hammerson
	Spellman Care
	
	Spellman Care ESG Programme
	St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Dementia/Sensory Garden
	
Devon Alliance
Devon Alliance: From Arrival to Belonging
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
ASM transition Programme 
NHS Professionals
Displaced Talent Programme
North Bristol NHS Trust 
Proud To Belong
Nuffield Health 
Workforce engagement and support 
Practice Plus Group
Building a resilient nursing workforce
	Bradford Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust
	
	Basic Life Support (BLS) KIOSK
	East and North Herts Teaching NHS Trust
	
	Use of Digital Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle Suite to Improve Compliance Recording
	East and North Herts Teaching NHS Trust
	
	Use of AIM (Actions and Improvement) Overarching Action Log
	Health Service Executive
	
	Filling The Gap with ANP-Led ADHD Psychoeducation
	Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS
	
	East of England Multiprofessional Healthcare Learner Toolkit App
	Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Clinical Competencies managed on a Digital Platform called Compassly
	London Northwest University Healthcare NHS Trust
	
	Implementing Digital IVTP: Transforming Workflows with Technology
	The Royal London Hospital - Barts Health NHS Trust
	
	Digitally Enabled Clinical Site Safety Huddle:Streamlining Workflows & Enhancing Patient Safety
	The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust 
	
	The introduction of artificial intelligence to create a real-time list of all newly diagnosed blood clots in Newcastle Trust
	University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Empowering maternity staff to drive continuous improvement with ImproveWell
	
	Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Healthcare Support Worker Development Team
	Health Education and Improvement Wales
	
	National Retention Programme
	Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Kings EDI Project for Theatre workforce
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust New to Care training programme
	Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
	
	LUHFT Temporary Staffing
	Nuffield Health
	
	Building Futures: Launching a Clinical Career Pathway for Sustainable Workforce Development
	Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Embedding Equity and Efficiency: Royal Papworth’s Recruitment Transformation
	Swansea Bay University Health Board
	
	Neath Port Talbot and Singleton Service Group Workforce Business Partners - Staff Engagement, Wellbeing and Retention Plan
	The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Confirm and Challenge: Nursing workforce initiative at the ROH
	Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Widening Participation for Nursing Students
	Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Edge Hill University, Wigan Borough Council and Wigan and Leigh College
	
	A partnership Approach to Care Home Nurse Associates
	Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Edge Hill University, Wigan Borough Council and Wigan and Leigh College
	
	Growing our own workforce
	
Recruitment
	Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
	
	International Recruitment Team
	Devon Alliance
	
	Devon Alliance: From Arrival to Belonging
	East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Structured Orientation and Upskilling Programme (SOUP)
	King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
	
	ASM transition Programme
	NHS Professionals
	
	Displaced Talent Programme
	Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Accommodation, Transition program and further clinical support
	
Barchester Healthcare
Pathway to practice
Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
 Inclusive recruitment reimagined: our NQNclusive recruitment for NQN's
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
New to Care - Collaborative Recruitment
University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Maternity Recruitment 
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust 
On-Boarding of Student Midwives
Angela Agore
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
Mark Anthony Doblas
NHS England - North East and Yorkshire region (NEY)
Charlene Dsouza 
South Western Ambulance Service 
INDU JACOB
Royal Gwent Hospital
Minija Joseph
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Joan Pons Laplana
NHS England 
Wilfredo Rodriguez Manuel
North Bristol NHS Trust, Southmead Hospital
Jaime Mariano
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust (Lister Hospital)
Susy Pramod
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust 
Manu Thomas
Sirona care and health
Jandryle Trondillo
Maria Mallaband Care Group
Wilfredo Vitao, Jr.
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Retention
	Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
	
	BWC Universal Family Programme
	East Kent Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Restoring Professional Identity: from HCSW (IEN) to Registered Nurse in the UK
	Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Inclusive recruitment reimagined: our NQNclusive recruitment for NQN's
	King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Transformation Programme
	Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
	
	Your Future in ACC program
	Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
	
	New to Care
	NHS England - North East and Yorkshire region (NEY)
	
	STEP Up (Start To Elevate your Professional) Career Workshop - Stay and Thrive
	Practice Plus Group
	
	Treating patients and each other as they would like to be treated
	Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Reverse Mentorship - Internationally Educated Nurses
	Somerset NHS foundation Trust
	
	Allyship workshop with executive colleagues
	The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
	
	ReSTORE
	University of Salford
	
	Global Majority Leadership Certification Program and the Global Majority Mentorship Program
	
	Avante Care and Support
	
	Investing in People: Supporting Carers to become Nurses (with Kinari CIC)
	Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
	
	The Nightingale Award
	Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
	
	HCSW development project
	Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
	
	International Day of the Nurse Event
	Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
	
	MTW Acute Virtual Ward
	NIHR Liverpool Clinical Research Facility, University Hospitals Liverpool NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Co-Producing Progression: The Band 5/6 Pathway and Workforce Development Model
	Practice Plus Group
	
	Making the everyday wins extraordinary
	West London NHS Trust
	
	All the small things - reward and recognition A-Z Strategy
	Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Passport to Progression - CNO Fellowship Programme
	
	Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
	
	International GROW Trolley & Mobile Wellbeing Hub
	Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
	
	Pre-registration Peer Support
	Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust
	
	Together, WE RISE (Wellbeing, Resilience, Inclusion, Support and Empowerment): A Multi-Professional Approach to Supporting Newly Qualified Healthcare Staff
	Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Hospital Trust
	
	NMAHP Wellbeing Café
	NHSE London region - CapitalNurse
	
	Flexible Working: Getting it Right for your Team
	North Central London Clinical Academic Nexus in partnership with Develop to Thrive and Middlesex University
	
	Diamond Moments
	Practice Plus Group
	
	Wellbeing cupboards: Cutting cost-of-living pressures for Health in Justice colleagues
	South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
	
	Wellbeing Matters Project, Staff Support Team
	The Bravest Path & NHS Partners
	
	Braver Than Before
	University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust
	
	An integrated approach to Health and Wellbeing
	Worksights
	
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