Southern Excellence Awards 2019 – Nominations now open!
The categories for the Southern Excellence Awards 2019 are as follows:
- Graham Crombie Outstanding Leadership Award
- Improvements of the Year Award
- Team of the Year Award
- Outstanding Care and Contribution Award
- Behind the Scenes (Unsung Hero) Award
- Rising Star Award
- Māori Health Development Award
- Breaking Boundaries Award
- Southern Future Values Champion Award
- Southern Innovation Challenge Award
Each category has separate criteria and application form.
Please note: applications are open only to those who are employees or volunteers of Southern DHB.
Graham Crombie Outstanding Leadership Award
Paying homage to the late Deputy Commissioner Graham Crombie - an exceptional individual and leader who made a phenomenal contribution the DHB - this award recognises an individual or team who demonstrate outstanding leadership, including mentoring, supporting and enabling the development of people and services – inspiring and motivating others to be the best they can be.
Improvement of the Year Award
This award recognises an individual or team who has successfully improved health service delivery. They may have adopted an idea (used elsewhere) or implemented a new idea to improve the quality of services provided. Quality Improvement is at the heart of what they do and they are always learning, sharing and seeking to enhance the services they deliver.
Team of the Year Award
This award is for a team that has demonstrated their ability to deliver clear benefits through working together effectively and efficiently. The definition of a team, in this context, is two or more members of DHB staff sharing the same goals, in either their day-to-day work or on a particular project or task.
Rising Star of the Year Award
This award recognises the achievements of an individual who has been in their role less than two years, who goes above and beyond to help the DHB deliver its objectives and strives to exceed in all that they do. This individual will show an exceptional level of skill, initiative and commitment to their role.
Outstanding Care and Contribution Award
This award is for an individual or team who goes the extra mile to ensure their service is caring and compassionate, and makes a difference to the lives of patients, service users and/or carers.
Behind the Scenes (Unsung hero) Award
This award recognises an individual or team within corporate and support services (Human Resources, Finance, Building and Property, IT, Strategy etc.), who consistently go above and beyond the call of duty in their day-to-day work to support the core and front-line services of the DHB.
Note: This award is not open to those who provide front-line care.
Māori Health Development Award
This award recognises the achievements of any individual or team who have made a real contribution to improving the outcomes for Māori health and wellbeing.
Breaking Boundaries Award
This is awarded to an individual or team who has demonstrated outstanding partnership working and sharing resources with primary and community providers or other external stakeholders.
Māori Health Development Award
This award recognises the achievements of any individual or team who have made a real contribution to improving the outcomes for Māori health and wellbeing.
Southern Future Values Champion Award
This award is for an individual or team who have incorporated the core Southern DHB values and behaviours into their everyday work environment.
Southern Innovation Challenge Award
This award is for an individual or team who are currently working on introducing a new device, method or material to improve our health services for patients and staff.