Haley has recently joined the therapy team from support worker. Haley is very passion about her job. Patients here at aspen clinic requested therapy animals for a long time. Haley organised a donation day and raised money for us to have quails. She put forward the idea which was approved. Now we have our very own quails! Haley goes above and beyond
Maria provided great comfort for one of our residents who really struggles having a blood test. She managed on 2 occasions to successfully support nursing staff to get very important blood tests completed for this resident. Thank you for your hard work comforting this resident Maria.
Priyanka deserves to be rewarded for her hard work developing a functional analysis for a complex young person. Her work is helping our team to develop a formulation to understand the young person and support them in the best way. Priyanka has dedicated a lot of her time to this and we are very lucky to have her as a part of our team.
Leanne is someone who started at Cygnet in Domestic Services and has worked from this position to support, a nursing associate, and completed her nurse training with Cygnet. She is now employed on the same ward where she started and she is excelling in the role. She is confident and competent and she has a can do attitude and gets tasks completed.
Kristina goes above and beyond every single day at work, she is incredible at supporting the residents and having the ‘on the spot’ tools and knowledge to diffuse situations and inspire residents to change their mindset. She is great at helping residents to express themselves and to be as independent as possible. She is an asset to the team.
Felly has established an incredibly strong relationship with a resident who shows particularly challenging behaviours. Felly worked consistently with this resident whilst he was in the hospital, never once complaining and allowing for this time to be alot easier for the resident as he had someone there that he likes and trusts to help him.
Khumbalani recently supported a resident to hospital who hasn’t successfully attended a hospital appointment for many years. Through his comforting techniques and communication he managed to safely and calmly support this gentleman to carry out a successful appointment. Well done Khumbalani thank you for your comforting support.
Andrew ensured that a service user who had in the past refused to visit family was taken there, despite this was late in the day Andrew took him to see his family, that brief moment made a lot of difference in the life of the family. The family who where gathered with other extended members where very grateful.
Dr Mass has been dedicated to working with and supporting patients with their physical health. Recently, 81% of the patients at Sherwood House have consented to engage with blood tests. This is a huge increase in comparison to previous months and a direct reflection of Dr Mass hard work and dedication.
We were recently filming a Music 2 Empower video with a patient at Cygnet Bury Hudson and Ajibola came in on his day off to support both the patient and us with the filming. Giving up his free time to do this shows how much it means to Ajibola to showcase the achievements of service users and demonstrates not just flexibility but Passion & Support.
Susanna took role as chef while I was on annual leave, helped doing orders in that time, as youngest member of kitchen she managed to handle everything with comfort while at same time she working on her own dealing with orders and delivery.
Recently Nathan has shown great resilience and flexibility accommodating the needs of another service in crisis without any hesitation. Nathan has been a team player and shown great commitment to his role as a support worker. He has eased the hardship on another service by ensuring they have enough staff and even shared his knowledge accordingly.