Innovation in Social Care Award

Description:

This award will recognise an individual who has shown exceptional skill in identifying, developing, implementing, using or establishing a new system, product or practice, including digital systems. This new innovation must demonstrate benefits for people who use services, services and staff. This system or product may have been designed to increase the independence of people who use the service or improve their quality of life and must be able to demonstrate the impact it has had.

Criteria:

• Evidence of identifying, developing, using or establishing an innovative product, system or practice.
• Demonstrate how innovation has improved the quality of life of people.
• Demonstrate that the system, product or practice is new and not widely used elsewhere.

Eligibility:

• Currently work in, or have recently retired from, the care sector in East Sussex.
• Have had a project or innovation in the care sector that has taken place in the last 12 months.
• Have had a positive impact on people living within East Sussex