The Fed’s Director of Clinical Services, Karen Johnson and Clinical Manager, Marie Madeley were both recently presented with a team award from Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care in England, Deborah Sturdy CBE.
At the ceremony, Heathlands Village was awarded the Team Award after being nominated by Melanie Stephens for their support and outstanding contribution to a three-year project in Greater Manchester called: ‘Not the last resort: The longitudinal impact of an interprofessional student training care home initiative.’
Reflecting on the award, Karen said: “We are delighted and very proud to receive this award. The project successfully changed the students’ concept of what working in a care home was going to be like – which we feel is perfectly summed up by feedback from this physiotherapy student who participated in the project who commented: ‘I had the first impression of what we see in the media, that sort of picture of a care home is – that it’s not a nice place to be… so I went into the home (Heathlands Village) and my perspective changed – because it was just amazing!’.”
