Learner and Employer of the Month – March 2025
Judit Padar- Priory Group - Egerton Road
Judit is an extremely knowledgeable individual who demonstrates her compassion for supporting others each and every time we speak/meet. She is motivated and keen to develop others to be the best they can be, as well as working on her own development.
Judit has recently achieved a promotion into a more senior role, which supports to evidence her commitment and continuous improvements in her role. Alongside this, Judit informed me that she has been recognise at the youngest senior to achieve this position in her service, accomplishing this despite her own disability.
Voyage Care
Phillip is a truly outstanding manager who brings out the best in everyone he works with. He takes the time to understand each team member’s strengths, and uses this knowledge to support their personal and professional development. His leadership style is grounded in trust, empathy, and encouragement.
Phillip is always hands-on, leading by example and never hesitating to roll up his sleeves and get involved. His open-door policy creates a welcoming and supportive environment where staff feel comfortable approaching him with ideas, concerns, or simply for guidance. He listens, values every voice, and fosters a culture of mutual respect.
A passionate advocate for continuous learning, Phillip actively encourages all staff to pursue training and development opportunities. He makes it a priority to help his team grow in confidence and capability, ensuring they feel empowered in their roles and proud of the work they do.
Thanks to Phillip’s leadership, the team thrives – not only in performance but in morale, teamwork, and commitment to excellence. He is a shining example of what great management looks like.
Learner and Employer of the Month – February 2025
Mary Hollman - Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust
I feel that my learner has gone above and beyond to complete their apprenticeship. They have put the hard work in and should be rewarded for this. As they have completed our first Peer Support apprenticeship and taken everything that has been thrown at them including being a trailblazer for this new qualification. They have grown in confidence, compassion and has used peer based approaches to complete their KSBs. They have pushed to gather evidence without being intrusive and I have had the privilege of watching this learner grow and blossom which is why I am nominating this learner!
Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust
I feel that my learner has gone above and beyond to complete their apprenticeship. They have put the hard work in and should be rewarded for this. As they have completed our first Peer Support apprenticeship and taken everything that has been thrown at them including being a trailblazer for this new qualification. They have grown in confidence, compassion and has used peer based approaches to complete their KSBs. They have pushed to gather evidence without being intrusive and I have had the privilege of watching this learner grow and blossom which is why I am nominating this learner!
Learner and Employer of the Month – January 2025
Jason Cattell - Nuffield Healthcare
Jason is currently 100% for OJH and 88% for Progress. He started his apprenticeship requiring support for his Functional Skills, but very quicky pass the reading writing and maths at that level. With little encouragement, he has also pass his level 2 reading a d writing and scored a pass on a level 2 maths mock exam. Jason’s energy to progress and complete tasks in a timely fashion is all credit to his enthusiasm.
Hartwell Lodge - Buckland Care
This employer has been one of the most supportive of their learners and also with me. They have risen to every challenge and request and give their learners all the time the need to complete their qualification.
I have found the team here to be supportive and pull together to allow time for meetings and exams during working hours and offer a huge range of guidance for their 17+ apprentices.
They give opportunities to young and upcoming care workers and ensure the knowledge and experience of the whole team is shared with them to be able to come well rounded, independent care workers.
Previous Winners
Abu Kalam - Alma Court, Avery Healthcare
Abu is, and has been an amazing learner from day one of his level 3 lead adult care worker. Abu is the epitome of someone who wants to learn, develop and take as much as he can from every learning activity. Abu seeks feedback from myself, as well as his colleagues as he genuinely wants to improve – recently shown by him using initiative to ask all his colleagues for feedback on his work to share with me. Abu also wants to support colleagues to provide the best care – for example he tells people about Mental Capacity Principles. Abu asked for extra learning opportunities at work and has been shadowing nurses to learn how to update care plans. He then used these new skills / knowledge in a mentoring session for me to observe where he helped another care worker to understand the care plans. Abu is an absolute pleasure to work with and to see the joy he gets from learning is admirable. I also receive lovely feedback from the workshop tutors about his contributions to the workshops.
Libra Care Services
This employer is worthy of a nomination and hopefully recognised for the support they give their staff, I have worked with this employer for 12 months, they are a small SME and have a passion for supporting their employees with training and increasing their current skills and knowledge, she had a few staff that had approached her to gain their level 2 and some to progress to level 3, as she wanted them to move to a senior role, in the current climate the 5% co-investment was a barrier to her company, I recently secured some levy transfer funding for her company and she was over the moon ( literally) we managed to secure 9 new/existing staff with current qualifications, they are all keen and eager to progress, and we enrolled them all in 2 weeks. A happy employer and even happier learners.