The Brilliant You Awards

This award recognises a team or individual that has delivered truly exceptional care, improving patient experience and making lives better for the people we serve.

WINNER

Dr Rachel Turner and the Harm Engagement and Reduction Team (HEART)

Also shortlisted:

• Alison Smith, Physiotherapy for Adults with Learning Disability Team (PADD) and East/West Staffordshire Community Learning Disability Team
• BluSky Psychotherapy Team
• Rochelle Gray-Emerson, Stafford CAMHS
• Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Dementia Assessment and Diagnosis Service
• West Midlands Gambling Harms Clinic

This award recognises an individual who has made significant contributions in achieving the Trust’s aims and whose achievements motivate, inspire and encourage others.

WINNER

Ciaran Hill, Stafford CAMHS

Also shortlisted:

• Hannah Coackley, Inpatient Dementia Services (Oak Ward, The Redwoods Centre)
• Jessica Kent, Arts for Health 
• Natalie Bradbury/Tom Tunnicliffe, Older Adult Inpatients (Baswich and Bromley Wards, St George's Hospital)
• Ruth Adams, Leicester Sexual Health Services
• Wendy Bateson, Personalisation and Social Inclusion Team

This award recognises an individual who has joined the organisation in the past 12 months and is just embarking on their career in health and social care this could be a new starter, apprentice, trainee or student. This individual is someone who has hit the ground running and made a real impact. 

WINNER

Helen Parkin, Adult Eating Disorders Outpatients Team

Also shortlisted:

• Emma Harrison, Reconnect & Outreach Service (Cheshire and West Mercia)
• Frances Haughtey, Stone Community Rehabilitation Team
• Joseph Holland, Community Mental Health Rehabilitation Service
• Kassandra Pritchard, Oak Ward (The Redwoods Centre)
• Ousman Gaye, Pharmacy Digital Improvement and Innovation Team

This award recognises a team or individual that has demonstrated innovation or education within their work, leading to positive change for service delivery, service users or staff. 

WINNER

LENSE Team

Also shortlisted:

• Helen Baines, South Speech and Language Therapy Team (Paediatric)
• Jessica Shiner, Speech and Language Therapy (South Paediatric)
• Mark Stone, Research and Innovation Team
• Paul Moloney, Specialist Learning Disability Directorate
• South East Staffordshire SQuIRE Team

This award recognises a team or individual committed to creating a positive working culture, demonstrating our values in everything they do and going beyond to make sure colleagues feel safe, happy and respected at work.

WINNER

Zoe Maunders, Primary Care

Also shortlisted:

• Jane Knibbs, CAMHS Intensive Support Team
• Mental Health Admin Telford Team
• Ruth Shaw, Yew and Clee Wards (The Redwoods Centre)
• Scott Leonard, Paediatric Podiatry
• Temporary Staffing Team

This award recognises a team or individual that has demonstrated best practice through proactive collaboration with other partners. The individual or team proactively considers the needs of the local community and develop ways of working which complement those needs to consistently provide the best outcome for people. 

WINNER

Hep C U Later

Also shortlisted:

• Aaron Hartshorn with Rajni Chanian, Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Talking Therapies, Age UK Shropshire, and Shropshire Carers Alliance
• Children's OT Team: Claire Nash, Jo Smith, Tammy Griffin, Rachel Kirkland
• R&I Study Support Team - MPFT and Shrop Comm
• SMI Team in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin
• Wendy Colclough, Minor Injury Unit and Walk-In Centre

This award recognises a team or individual who has demonstrated exceptional commitment to the promotion and embedding of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion including the Trust’s anti-racism and anti-discrimination charter. Their behaviours have ultimately led to better staff or patient experience. 

WINNER

Telford and Wrekin Primary Care Network Psychology Team

Also shortlisted:

• Alycia Mkwananzi, Service Development
• Chantelle Myrie, Social Care Pathway West
• Lorraine Welch, Inclusion Thurrock, Psychological Therapy Service
• Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin NHS Talking Therapies Service
• Tony Ralph, Children and Families Digital Improvement Team

This award reviews nominations made through the LOVE Unites staff recognition scheme. The winner will be someone who has demonstrated going above and beyond and truly living the Trust’s values. 

WINNER

Walter Eze, Trust-wide Bank

Also shortlisted:

• Lisa MacArthur-Bagnall, 0-19 Service in Burton
• Michelle Lyons, Childrens Community Nursing Staffs West
• Olivia Haywood, Black Country Integrated Offender Health
• Rabia Anbreen, Asylum Seeker Team
• Sarah Lester, About Better Care (ABC) PCN

This award recognises the outstanding contribution of an individual service user or carer in improving MPFT services and helping us to achieve our mission of making life better for our communities. This award celebrates an individual's powerful contributions drawn from their own lived experiences and the positive impact of these insights within service design or development, evaluation or research activities.

NB: nominations for this award were open to members of the generic public including service users and carers. Therefore, nominations for this category were not open to anyone employed by MPFT.

WINNER

BeeU Ambassadors

Also shortlisted:

• Paul Wainwright

This award category recognises the co-production efforts of MPFT staff and members of the community who have worked together to enhance our offer. This category celebrates the power of co-production with a particular focus on collaborations that have led to positive outcomes for the communities we serve. The Co-production or Lived Experience-Led project of the year is a piece of work which positions lived experience voices alongside and equal to those from other health or social care backgrounds; by breaking down barriers, this project is actively developing the health and care agenda.

WINNER

Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Dementia Service

Also shortlisted:

• Jamie Roberts, Keys to Employment
• MSK - Patient Resources and Education Development (PRED) Project Team
• Perinatal Provider Collaborative Lived Experience Team
• West Midlands Adult Eating Disorders Collaborative (SupportED) and MPFT's Eating Disorder Service
• Whose Shoes Project Team with specific mention to Lindsey Douglas

Awarded to teams or an individual whose work is of the highest standard within their Care Group or corporate service. Managing Directors and senior managers across corporate service reviewed longlisted nominees from all other Brilliant You Award 2025 categories and selected a winner for their Care Group/corporate services. 

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Care Group

WINNER: Wendy Bateson, Personalisation and Social Inclusion Navigator

Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Care Group

WINNER: NHS Talking Therapies Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin

Children and Families Care Group

WINNER: Whose Shoes Project Team

Specialist Care Group

WINNER: LESNSE Team

Corporate

WINNER: Temporary Staffing Team

This award is agreed by the Chair and Chief Executive and awarded to a team or individual that has delivered an outstanding contribution to health and social care in the past year in a way that truly embodies our trust values.

WINNER

West Midlands Gambling Harms Clinic