2022 Shortlist
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Nursing Times Workforce Awards 2022. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony, taking place on Tuesday 22 November 2022 at the Hilton London Metropole. To secure your place and celebrate with the profession’s finest, please select your package here.
We look forward to seeing you at the event.
Best Employer for Staff Recognition and Engagement
Fresenius Kabi: National engagement team
MSI Reproductive Choices: Engaging the nursing workforce in clinical supervision
Park View Surgery: Engaging staff and increasing job satisfaction through health promotion and disease prevention amongst the vulnerable
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Clinical supervision: one trust’s approach to engaging with staff to support and improve staff wellbeing
Best Employer for Diversity and Inclusion
Best Employer for Diversity and Inclusion
Barts Health NHS Trust: We Belong
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust: Kofoworola Abeni Pratt fellowship
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Supporting HCAs with overseas nursing qualifications to obtain NMC registration
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with NHS Arden and GEM CSU: Maximising your potential leadership development programme
NHS England - Midlands: Developing aspirant ethnic minority nursing and midwifery leaders programme
North East London NHS Foundation Trust: Leaders empowered to achieve their potential
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust: Lived experience of homelessness pilot
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust: Connecting cultures
South London Mental Health and Community Partnership: BAME leadership programme
Best International Recruitment Experience
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust: Recruiting international nurses throughout the pandemic and beyond
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust with Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust and NEU Professionals: Botswana mental health nurse recruitment
CapitalNurse: Supporting English language foundations pathway
Devon International Recruitment Alliance: Establishing international recruitment across an integrated care system
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust: International Nurse Recruitment; ensuring the best experience for all
Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: International recruitment
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with Cheshire International Recruitment Collaborative, A Nurse Centred Collaborative
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust: International recruitment and our professional development and education team
Nuffield Health: International recruitment development programme
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust: International recruitment of mental health nurses
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: International nurse recruitment in partnership with NHSP International
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust: International nurse recruitment and pastoral care
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust: Recognition of post-registration experience in international nurse recruitment
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust: International nurse recruitment programme
Best Recruitment Experience
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust: Improvement of our newly-registered nurse recruitment experience
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust: Apprentice nursing associate recruitment
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Golden Ticket
NHS England: National healthcare support worker recruitment campaign
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust: Newly qualified nurses recruitment event
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust: Trainee health care support worker role
Best Social Responsibility Programme
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Patient and Staff Enhancer team (PaSE)
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 0-19 Service
NHS Bradford District and Craven CCG, Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership: Family Vaccination Clinics
NHS England - North West - Refugee Nursing Programme
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust - Climate Change: A Health Emergency Engaging the Local Community
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust - Local Employability Programme
Best Staff Wellbeing Initiative
Barts Health NHS Trust - Barts Health Wellbeing
Bradford Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: #embeddingkindness
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust: Integrated Local Services - Good Grief Café
MSI Reproductive Choices: Engaging the nursing workforce in clinical supervision
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust: Yoga practitioner
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust: In the moment
Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust: Safety incident supporting our staff initiative
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust: Enhanced wellbeing support project
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Clinical supervision: one trust’s approach to support and improve staff well-being
Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust: Senior intern team 2017-2022
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Grow our own
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust: Beautiful Beginning
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust: International experienced nurse recruitment and retention
MSI Reproductive Choices: Engaging the nursing workforce in clinical supervision
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust - Widening Participation as a title
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust: Refugee nurse support programme
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust: To be the employer of choice for our local community
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust: Empowering the voice of nursing and raising quality standards through strong ward leadership
Best Use of Workplace Technology
Compton Care: Virtual Reality/AR cube project
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust with RISE: Think family outreach team
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust: Immersive virtual reality simulations in safeguarding training
Eastern Academic Health Science Network: Remote monitoring in care homes
Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership: Greater Manchester Primary Care Digital Training Passport
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust: Northwest London Virtual Clinical Hub
St Mark's Hospital: Digitalisation of Stoma and Pouch Care services
Practice Plus Group: Visionable and attend anywhere telemedicine project
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust: Embedding an accessible and understandable workforce analytics system within the Trust
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust: Do whatever moves you
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Workforce monthly KPIs using eRostering and Roster Perform
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust: Renal ward database
Best Workplace for Learning and Development
Bradford Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: North East and Yorkshire Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist Development Programme
Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership: Greater Manchester Primary Care Digital Training Passport
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Towards race equity: leading through engagement masterclasses
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with NHS Arden and GEM CSU : Maximising your potential - Leadership Development Programme
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust: Researching together: a programme of learning and development to engage, enhance and embed research for nurses and clinicians
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust: Digital and technology-enhanced learning - a paradigm shift in education and training delivery
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust with The Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health: Clinical nurse specialists training to be lead clinicians pilot study
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Nursing workforce development programme
University Hospital Coventry : Practice Development Team - Registered Nurse Development Programme
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust: School of Nursing and Midwifery Practice
Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust: Wirral NHS Cadets Programme
Diversity and Inclusion Champion of the Year
Moriam Adekunle, Essex Partnership University Trust
Annie Dixon, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Anne Harriss, Society of Occupational Medicine
Ester Jamera, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
LaToya Martin, South London Partnership, Oxleas
Jay Morris, Nuffield Health
Ruth Oshikanlu, Abule CIC
Emma Persand, Lemur Health & Working with the Menopause
Ismaelette (Mymy) Del Rosario, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Oliver Soriano, Philippine Nurses Association UK
Manager of the Year (Non-clinical)
Michelle Armistead, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
Caroline Foley, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Diane Last, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Julie Mitchell, Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, Cheshire International Recruitment Collaborative
Alun Mowll, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Edyta Ozbek, NEU Professionals
Roshni Shah, Nightingale Hammerson
Nathaniel De Villiers, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Kirsty White, Church Street Medical
Nurse Manager of the Year
Claire Brookwell, Fresenius Kabi
Sarah Crowshaw, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Michele Gardner, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Sheena Henderson, Care UK
Rachael Hines,West London NHS Trust
Karen Hinsley, HMP Doncaster
Paul Jebb, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Laura Jones, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Diane Last, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Zarah Perry-Woodford, St Mark's Hospital
Claire Reed, Spectrum Community Health CIC
Paula Spooner, NHS England
Overseas Nurse of the Year
Edelisa Almeida, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Gillian Nicole Bernal, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
James Esleyer, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Lora Espancho, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Aathira George, Cheshire International Recruitment Collaborative, Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust
Riel Mart De Guzman, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Aldarico Jr Velasco, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Ismaelette (Mymy) Del Rosario, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Meena Sarangapani, North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
John Songkip, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Audrey Rose Tapang, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Joanna Tuazon, CapitalNurse
Claire Vista, Lane Fox Remeo Respiratory Centre
Practice Educator of the Year
Gillian Nicole Bernal, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Lucy Compiani, NHS Dorset
Lara Evans, Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust
Deborah Grafton, Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust
Christine Marshallsay, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Suzanne Mumford, Care UK
Kelsie Richardson-martin, West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Pamela Vassallo-Todaro, Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Liana Vignoni, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Tom Woollard, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Preceptor of the Year
Suraj Kumar, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Blandine Renou, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Practice Development Team, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
Preceptorship Programme of the Year
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust : Excellence in Preceptorship – the Pride Way
Barts Health NHS Trust: Paediatric and neonatal preceptorship programme
Elysium Healthcare: Creating Foundations of Support and Team-Working
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust: Preceptorship in practice
Manx Care, Development, Education and Continuous Professional Support
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust: In pursuit of excellence
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust: Increasing education on wellbeing and resilience for newly qualified nurses
Nuffield Health: Preceptorship programme - building our nursing workforce
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust: Maternity preceptorship programme
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust: Coming out the other side 'post-pandemic preceptorship'
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Accelerated preceptorship programme for overseas nurses
Workforce Team of the Year
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust: Corporate clinical education team
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust with RISE: Think family outreach team
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Acute Liaison Multi-Disciplinary Team for Learning Disabilities and Autism
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust: Legacy mentors - helping nurses to achieve their goals
MSI Reproductive Choices: Engaging the nursing workforce in clinical supervision
NHS England - Midlands: Developing aspirant ethnic minority nursing and midwifery leaders programme
Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board: The legacy nurse team
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Weston Park Cancer Centre at Breathing Space, Rotherham
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust: An oncology digital clinical placement to develop and sustain an oncology workforce
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust: The wellbeing team