Bluebird Care achieves great heights of 5th year at the Great British Care Awards 2020

The Great British Care Awards are a series of regional events throughout the UK that celebrate excellence across the care sector.

The purpose of the awards is to pay tribute to those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding excellence within their field of work.

This is the 5^th year Bluebird Care Reading and Wokingham and Bluebird Care Windsor, Maidenhead and Bracknell have reached the regional finals of The Great British Care Awards. In 2019, Bluebird Care won in two categories, and they will find out this year’s results on 30^th October.

There are twenty-one award categories available for nomination, which represent all areas of the social care sector. From frontline staff such as carers and care managers, to people who have made an impact in other ways, such as training and innovation.

Alison Small who has worked for Bluebird Care Reading and Wokingham now for 4 years, has been nominated for The Dementia Care Award and has been shortlisted as a finalist. This award will be given to an individual who can reflect the specific skills needed to manage and deliver services sensitive to the needs of older people with dementia.

Lauren Hobbs is one of Bluebird Care’s newcomers for 2020 and has been nominated for The Home Care Newcomer Award. Lauren started working for Bluebird Care Windsor, Maidenhead and Bracknell in February 2020 alongside her full-time career as an air stewardess for British Airways. This award seeks to acknowledge and celebrate a new member of staff who ideally commenced and remained in employment in the care sector within the previous 12 months. Lauren has managed to transfer her existing skills into care and really understand what it means to care for her customers.

Abigail Owen is also nominated for the Home Care Newcomer Award. She joined Bluebird Care in June this year to help during the COVID-19 pandemic as she was back from university and had time to give. Since Abigail has started it is now not just a job for her this has become her forte and she is a natural carer. Abigail has returned to university but will continue with Bluebird Care during her holidays such is her passion and dedication to her customers and the job.

Bluebird Care Reading and Wokingham’s Care Team have been nominated for ‘The Home Care Team Award’ for the passion and dedication they have shown to their customers before and during Covid-19. 

Kerry Brooker, Care Manager at Bluebird Care Reading and Wokingham, said:

“For many people social care is more than a job, it’s a passion. Care staff and teams regularly go above and beyond, often putting the needs of others first to provide comfort and kindness to those who need support, and this is so true of our care team. It is the little things they do that really make a real difference”

Jo McCluskey, Registered Care Manager at Bluebird Care Reading and Wokingham, said:

“Bluebird Care is truly proud to have been nominated in 3 categories for this year’s finals, and awards like this help recognise the tremendous efforts, hard work and dedication of individuals and teams within Bluebird Care and the care sector. Our carers spend every working day providing compassionate care to our customers and their families and we are privileged to be able to have such amazing people work for us.”