Team Leader of the Year, Adult Services

           RECOGNISE INSPIRING SOCIAL WORK

Jane Haywood

ORGANISATION: Derby City Council

AWARD(S): Team Leader of the Year, Adult Services

 

Jane Haywood is not only a leader with a natural flair for managing the fast-paced environment of hospital social work, she is also one who has demonstrated great strength and resilience in the face of testing times for the Hospital to Home team she heads up.

 

Jane has practised in a hospital setting since qualifying in 1999, when she was one of the first social workers in the county to achieve the full post-qualifying award and train as a best interests assessor. She was appointed to her current post at the Royal Derby Teaching Hospital in 2016, where she has led on developing the Hospital to Home service.

 

In the past year, Jane’s team have experienced a harsh winter, with an unprecedented influx of admissions to the hospital, as well as the sudden loss of two very dear colleagues and friends. Jane’s nomination described how she navigated her team through these challenges with “confidence and calmness”, working positively with NHS colleagues to ensure the best outcomes for patients, and supporting her staff through their grief.

 

Jane’s colleagues credited her as a tenacious and sensitive manager, whose leadership has kept the show firmly on the road throughout an incredibly difficult time.

This nomination is a great endorsement for Jane. There is much evidence of her leadership skills and successful team management through difficult times. Her support to the team through the loss, and their bereavement, of two team members, whist managing her own grief was exemplary. An inspirational nomination!

Andy Butler, Lifetime Achievement Award Winner 2017

Jane is a strong and supportive manager who shows flair and creativity in motivating and supporting staff to excel. She also demonstrates strong social work values and uses her influence, hands-on, as a manager to get the best outcomes for service users.

Cath Gormally, Director of Social Care, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Jane has the ability to make you feel important and valued. She brings out the best qualities in each team member, provides us with confidence and creates a happy working environment where the team enjoy coming to work and want to work hard as we feel so appreciated.

Lyn Lidsey, Community Care Worker

I cannot imagine a more deserving recipient of the Team Leader of the Year Award. The past 12 months have been challenging both professionally and emotionally for Jane and the Hospital 2 Home team, and it is only because of Jane’s tenacity, resilience, focus and sensitivity that the team, and our service within the acute pathway has pulled through. We are lucky to have her and would be lost without her.

Julie Knight, Head of Service – Home First

THE JUDGES

Andy Butler

Cath Gormally

Nicky Skinner

Tony Zaman

THE FINALISTS

SILVER AWARD WINNER

Cheri Pearson, Livewell South West

Kelly-Ann Page, Gloucestershire County Council

Nicholas Edwards, Trafford Council

Tracey Bage, South Tyneside Council

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