{"id":320211,"date":"2025-12-17T03:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/320211\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T03:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:35:16","slug":"cntw-nhs-healthcare-support-workers-honoured-with-awards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/320211\/","title":{"rendered":"CNTW NHS healthcare support workers honoured with awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  All received the Chief Nursing Officer Award during a ceremony at St Nicholas Hospital in Gosforth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The awardees are Kendall Robinson, Oluwanisola (Shola) Daniel, Simon Connon, Alison Clarke, and Gemma Hepple.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  James Duncan, chief executive of CNTW, said: &#8220;Health care support workers don\u2019t always get the recognition they should.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;They\u2019re the people who spend the most time with the people we serve.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;You are all setting the way and shining a light for what healthcare support workers can be.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;You\u2019re an inspiration to us.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Each winner was commended for their dedication, compassion, and commitment to patient care.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Robinson, who works in secure care services, was recognised in the &#8216;working together for patients&#8217; category.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She said: &#8220;I\u2019m so proud to get this recognition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I\u2019m only good because of the team around me.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;At work, I think of my relatives and how I\u2019d want them to be looked after.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I always strive to give the best care that I can.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Daniel was awarded in the &#8216;compassion&#8217; category for her work in children and young people\u2019s service.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She said the award came as a surprise.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Daniel said: &#8220;I feel so honoured.\u00a0This award means a lot to me.\u00a0I wasn\u2019t expecting it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Thank you to all the management team, my line manager and colleagues for trusting in me and supporting me.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I look forward to supporting the team and providing quality care for the patients.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Hepple, also based in children and young people\u2019s services, said she felt &#8220;overwhelmed&#8221; by the recognition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Connon was recognised for his work to champion equality, diversity, and inclusion, and for his support and mentorship of new staff.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Clarke, who has worked for the trust for 36 years, received the award in the &#8216;commitment to quality care&#8217; category.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sarah Glacken, executive director of nursing and therapies at CNTW, said: &#8220;I was delighted to be part of the award ceremony to celebrate five amazing members of staff at CNTW.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The staff and those who work with them should be rightly very proud of their achievements.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We are so lucky to have these highly skilled, kind and compassionate staff working in our organisation and I feel very privileged to have been able to celebrate with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All received the Chief Nursing Officer Award during a ceremony at St Nicholas Hospital in Gosforth. The awardees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-320211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}