The categories for our Team LPFT Values Awards have been refreshed for 2025/26 to reflect our new corporate values. There are now nine categories, including four for which patients, service users, carers, families and members of the public can submit nominations.
Award categories and criteria
Nominations for the following awards can be submitted by our patients, service users, carers, families, members of the public and LPFT staff.
Clinical Team of the Year Award
To recognise a clinical team that has gone above and beyond to provide excellent care and opportunities for patients to get involved with the development or improvement of their care or service. They will have encouraged the collection of feedback and implemented ideas accordingly which improve patients’ or service users’ care, experience, safety or outcomes. The winner will keep patients and/or service users at the heart of everything they do.
We are looking for evidence of:
- Going above and beyond to improve care, experience or outcomes.
- Demonstrating innovation, perseverance in adversity, creativity, calmness in difficulty or an exceptional living out of our Trust values in their interaction with patients and/or service users.
- The ‘wow factor’ – a team doing something that can be held up to others as a model of best practice and something for our Trust to be proud of.
- Demonstrating our Trust’s behaviours.
Support Services Team of the Year Award
To recognise a Support Services team that has gone above and beyond to provide excellent support for the Trust as a whole or for clinical teams through their area of expertise. This could include a cross organisational project team or non-patient facing team within clinical or corporate services. Even though they are not patient-facing, they will have demonstrated a patient-first approach and will have acted innovatively and creatively to make a difference from ‘behind the scenes’.
We are looking for evidence of:
- Going above and beyond to provide an excellent service.
- Demonstrating innovation, perseverance in adversity, creativity, calmness in difficulty or an exceptional living out of our Trust values in the services they provide.
- The ‘wow factor’ – a team doing something that can be held up to others as a model of best practice and something for our Trust to be proud of.
- Demonstrating our Trust’s behaviours.
Volunteer of the Year Award
With committed volunteers, experts by experience and governors giving their time and energy to support the Trust and help us to provide high quality patient experience, this award recognises the incredible dedication of those who volunteer to support us.
We are looking for evidence of:
- Supporting local teams and the positive impact on patients, service users or staff.
- Helping people to access particular services or opportunities in the community.
- Supporting the delivery of safe, high quality services.
- Commitment, dedication and passion in their volunteering role.
Nominations for the following award can be submitted by our patients, service users, carers, families and members of the public.
People’s Award
To recognise an individual dedicated to providing outstanding patient care and an exceptional level of service above and beyond the call of duty.
We are looking for evidence of:
- Doing something innovative or exceptional.
- Demonstrating care and compassion and making a difference to someone’s experience and recovery.
- Completing work which is ‘above and beyond’ or ‘going the extra mile’.
Nominations for the following awards can be submitted by LPFT staff only.
Inclusivity and Kindness Award – Individual or Team
To recognise an individual or team who champion inclusivity and have demonstrated kindness in their work with each other or for other colleagues, patients, service users or carers. The winner will live our values of inclusivity and kindness, and will have demonstrated innovation and/or dedication to make sure our Trust lives out these values in practice.
We are looking for evidence of:
- Either a fantastic example of championing inclusivity and demonstrating the importance of kindness, or a clear and evidenced ongoing commitment to these values.
- Demonstrating an innovative approach and/or dedication beyond the call of duty.
- Not just demonstrating the values of inclusivity and kindness but advocating for and championing them.
- Promoting and enabling access to services for people with protected characteristics (age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation)
- Ensuring that when at work, those around them feel able to ‘be themselves’.
- Including and valuing the contribution of colleagues, volunteers, service users, carers and families.
- Demonstrating our Trust’s behaviours.
Learning and Working Together Award – Individual or Team
To recognise an individual or team who has aspired for excellence in the area of learning and working together to improve patient care and/or the experience of colleagues, patients, service users or carers. The winner will live our values of learning and working together and will have demonstrated innovation and/or dedication to make sure our Trust lives out these values in practice.
We are looking for evidence of:
- How the individual or team used learning or an innovative approach to work together with others to make a positive difference.
- Embracing their own or the team’s development.
- Utilising technology or a new way of working to improve the way we do things at the Trust.
- The difference implementing these ideas made for service users, carers, families or colleagues.
- Sharing learning or best practice with others.
- Demonstrating our Trust’s behaviours.
Our Voice and Actions Matter Award – Individual or Team
To recognise an individual or team who has raised their voice or done something challenging to improve patient care and/or the experience of colleagues, patients, service users or carers, or to save money and make the Trust more efficient. The winner will have demonstrated that our voice and actions do matter in something they have raised or done, or in their ongoing commitment to transparency, speaking out or challenging something that could be done better.
We are looking for evidence of:
- How they raised their voice either to call out something that wasn’t right or could have been better, or took actions to improve a situation.
- Demonstrating inspirational qualities that motivate and support colleagues to speak out, whistle blow or suggest ideas to improve the way we do things.
- The ability to never accept things are OK just because they have always been done that way.
- Demonstrating our Trust’s behaviours.
Leading by Example Award
This award is not just for those in a management position because anyone at any level can be a leader and make a difference to service delivery. This award recognises a role model with integrity who creates a positive impact in the development of those around them, through their leadership style and willingness to help people to be the best they can be.
We are looking for evidence of:
- How they have supported a local team through the challenges of the year.
- Demonstrating inspirational qualities that motivate and support colleagues.
- Embracing their own personal development and that of others in the team.
- Making positive service changes and raising staff morale.
Chair’s Award – Individual or Team
This award is made personally by our Chair from among all nominations received on his or her own discretion. It can be awarded to an individual or team, whether or not they have won or even been shortlisted in one of the other categories.
The Chair is looking for evidence of:
- Exceptional demonstration of our Trust’s values and behaviours.
- An exceptional contribution to making the experience of patients, service users, carers or colleagues better; or to making a positive and lasting difference to the Trust in terms of leadership, efficiencies, ED&I, our impact on the environment or innovation.
- Something we can all be proud of and a story we can tell to our stakeholders and the communities we serve.
- Something that encapsulates what our Trust is all about.
