Our KITE Awards recognise the hard work, dedication and outstanding care given by our colleagues and teams across Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust and Harrogate Integrated Facilities and looks to share their achievements for the wider benefit of patients/service users and staff.
KITE Awards shortlisted nominees revealed
Nominations have been received, judging is complete, and we are pleased to reveal our shortlisted nominees for our KITE Awards – HDFT & HIF Colleague Recognition Awards 2023. Congratulations to the 186 people who had been nominated for our 18 award categories. The standard of entries were exceptionally high and our judges had a tough job selecting a shortlist of three individuals or teams for each category.
The nominations clearly showed the exceptional work our colleagues do to ensure we can provide the best possible healthcare service for our patients, children and community and how you embody our KITE values of kindness, integrity, teamwork and equality.
We look forward to welcoming our shortlisted nominees to our KITE Award ceremony at the Cedar Court Hotel in Harrogate on Friday 19 January 2024 where the winners will be announced.
Our shortlisted nominees
Our award categories
Directorate awards (Colleague):
- Corporate Directorate Colleague of the Year
- Children’s and Community Care Directorate Colleague of the Year
- Long Term and Unscheduled Care Directorate Colleague of the Year
- Planned and Surgical Care Directorate Colleague of the Year
- Harrogate Integrated Facilities Colleague of the Year
These awards (one for each directorate) are for any colleague in these directorates who provides exceptionally high quality services to patients/services users and/or colleagues, or has demonstrated exceptional improvements to a service with clear benefits for others. Judges will be looking for someone who:
- Is highly motivated and enthusiastic.
- Has made a significant difference to patient/service user care or colleagues over the past year.
- Embodies the Trust’s values – kindness, integrity, teamwork and equality.
Anyone in each of the directorates can be nominated.
Overall Colleague of the Year Award
This award, which is decided by the Chairs of HDFT and HIF, considers the winners of the ‘Directorate Colleague of the Year Awards’, and is awarded to the individual who best embodies the qualities required to be considered ‘Overall Colleague of the Year’.
Directorate awards (Leadership)
- Corporate Directorate Leader of the Year
- Children’s and Community Care Directorate Leader of the Year
- Long Term and Unscheduled Care Directorate Leader of the Year
- Planned and Surgical Care Directorate Leader of the Year
- Harrogate Integrated Facilities Ltd Leader of the Year
These awards (one for each directorate) are for any leader in these directorates who consistently demonstrates the compassionate and inclusive behaviour we want all our leaders to show towards colleagues.
The judges will be looking for:
- A leader who is inclusive, promotes equality and diversity and challenges discrimination.
- A leader who is kind and treats people with compassion, courtesy and respect.
- A leader who aims for the highest standards and seeks to continually improve and harness the ingenuity of their team members.
- A leader who can be trusted to do what they promise.
- A leader who collaborates, forming effective partnerships to achieve common goals.
- A leader who celebrates success and supports their team members to be the best they can be.
Directorate awards (Teamwork)
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Corporate Directorate Team of the Year
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Children’s and Community Care Directorate Team of the Year
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Long Term and Unscheduled Care Directorate Team of the Year
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Planned and Surgical Care Directorate Team of the Year
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Harrogate Integrated Facilities Team of the Year
These awards (one for each directorate) are for any teams in these directorates who consistently deliver a high quality and efficient service, with a clear focus on the needs of others, be that patient/service users or colleagues. Perhaps they have implemented change and/or improved their service, and this can be evidenced.
The judges will be looking for:
- Effective team working.
- The team working together to support personal and professional development of members.
- Improvement work that has taken place on behalf of patients/service users.
Evidence of high quality, safe services.
Overall Team of the Year Award
This award, which is decided by the CEO of HDFT, considers the winners of the ‘Directorate Team of the Year Awards’, and is awarded to the team which best embodies the qualities required to be considered ‘Overall Team of the Year’.
Quality of Care Award
This award is for an individual or a team that has made a significant contribution to a measurable improvement to patient safety and experience.
The judges will be looking for:
- Evidence of a clearly defined project/piece of work.
- A clear explanation of how and why the need for improvement was necessary, including stakeholder engagement.
- Clear patient or service user benefit from the piece of work carried out.
- Evaluation (statistics or feedback for example) of the difference that’s been made for patients or service users.
Innovation, Research and Improvement Award
This award recognises excellent examples of innovation, research and improvement which has had clear benefits for patients, service users or colleagues. Judges are looking for:
- A well-planned and implemented transformation of a service.
- Evidence that the transformation implemented was the right thing to do.
- Feedback from colleagues in the service or who work with the service, or from patients/service users
Volunteer of the Year
This award is for an individual or team of volunteers who very generously give up their free time to support colleagues across the Trust. They work tirelessly with lots of enthusiasm and energy to provide much needed support for staff, patients/service users and visitors. The judges will be looking for evidence of:
- What they do and how they do it.
- The impact of what they do on the people and service they support.
- How they have demonstrated a positive attitude, regularly contributing to the team they’re part of.