Each year, Our People Awards recognises the incredible efforts of our staff for the inspirational work they carry out for people all across Scotland.

Patients, visitors and staff have the opportunity to nominate a member of staff, team or volunteer, who has gone above and beyond across multiple categories.

This year, nominations are open across 13 categories. You can find the details of these below, and place your nominations at this link. 

• Care and Compassion Award (Sponsored by the Royal College of Nursing)
  This award recognises staff or teams who show a positive, compassionate attitude to patients, families, visitors, staff and customers in everything they do.
   
• Chair Kindness Award
  Our Chair Kindness Award recognises an individual or team who have embedded and demonstrated a culture of kindness in their everyday practices.
   
• Collaboration Award
  The Collaboration Award recognises staff or teams who have been building relationships, internally or externally for the benefit of our service users, while treating everyone with dignity and respect.
   
• Community Volunteer Award
  Our Community Volunteer Award is a new category for 2025, which aims to celebrate an individual who gives their time freely to support our local community, making a long-lasting and meaningful impact.
   
• Innovation Award (Sponsored by the University of Strathclyde)
  The Innovation Award is open to any individual, group or team developing innovative ways ti improve health or services.
  
  Innovation takes many forms, which is why this award recognises both clinical and non-clinical innovations. This includes research, using new and emerging technologies or exploring new ways or working and faster access ton treatment.
   
• Leader of the Year Award
  An individual (clinical or non-clinical) who demonstrates outstanding leadership qualities in the work they do to make change happen and can work with others to improve and make things better. 
   
• Rising Star Award
  Our Rising Star Award is open to all up and coming professionals who are demonstrating the qualities for a bright future.
  
  So if you know someone who is proactive and progressive in all areas, with valid contributions to upholding excellence in their service area, then get your nomination in today.
   
• Support Worker Award
  For an individual involved in providing excellent NHS non-clinical support services for NHS Golden Jubilee.
  
  Any member of staff who delivers hands on care or works behind the scenes to improve patient care. This could be an ancillary assistant, a domestic assistant, a catering assistant, a porter or many more. 
   
• Sustainability Award
  Every year our Sustainability Award recognises staff or teams who are making a significant contribution to making our environment greener, safer, cleaner or more sustainable.
   
• Top Team Awards
  Our Top Team Award this year has been split into Clinical and Non-Clinical to make sure we are celebrating the accomplishments of teams no matter what service they provide.
  • Clinical
    Our Clinical Top Team Award is for a clinical team or group that have consistently demonstrated and uphold excellence in healthcare through working collaboratively, often going the extra mile to provide exceptional services.
    
    They must have evidence of significant contributions enabling NHS Golden Jubilee to provide services and care to patients, service users and colleagues. 
     
  • Non-Clinical
    The Non-Clinical Top Team Award is for any non-clinical team or group that have consistently demonstrated and upheld excellence in healthcare through working collaboratively, often going the extra mile to provide exceptional service(s).
    
    They must have evidence of significant contributions enabling their organisation to provide services and care to patients, service users and colleagues. 
     
• Unsung Hero Award
  The Unsung Hero Award is for an individual who makes a real difference but whose work will often go unnoticed.
  
  If you know someone who always go the extra mile and may not always get the recognition they deserve, this is your chance to shine a spotlight on everything they do for the people of Scotland.
   
• Volunteer Award
  This award is open to any volunteer or group of volunteers in NHS Golden Jubilee, who freely give their time to improve the health and wellbeing of patients, carers and service users of NHS Golden Jubilee. 

Nominations close at 11.45pm on Sunday 31 August 2025. The shortlist will be announced by early October 2025, with the awards event taking place on Thursday 20 November 2025.

Remember, you can place multiple nominations in different categories. Submit yours today at this link.

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• Scottish Veterans Awards Silver Winner Employer of the Year 2023
• Investor in People
• Investor in Young People Gold
• Investors in Diversity Stage 2 (Full Investor)
• Investing in Volunteers
• Disability Confident Leader
• Stonewall Diversity Champion
• Healthy Working Lives Gold
• Mentally Healthy Workplace
• Healthy Living Award
• Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award

Background

NHS Golden Jubilee recognises the commitment and loyalty from those that have worked and made their career within the NHS here and other parts of the NHS in the United Kingdom.

In recognition of this achievement NHS Golden Jubilee approved the introduction of a long service staff recognition scheme. This will be pin badges and certificates to recognise and celebrate staff who have career service milestones of 10 years and above in 5 year increments. For clarity this is:

Eligibility

All years working for the NHS count; so the scheme applies to staff who have worked for NHS Golden Jubilee or any other Board or Trust within the UK.  As long as you are currently on our payroll you can apply.

Aggregate service refers to the total amount of NHS service within the UK even where there has been a break in service. Service shall be counted on a date to date basis and shall be added together to make complete years.

Eligibility will only be for the total amount of complete years, i.e. 20 years and 40 days will meet the criteria but 19 years and 300 days will not. In situations where it is not possible to verify the aggregated service through internal records, e.g. personal file, then the onus will be on the employee to bring to the manager written evidence from the previous employer detailing the relevant service.

Where a service has been transferred under TUPE to the NHS, then the period when the employee worked for the contracted service which was transferred would be recognised as part of the entitlement for an award. If an NHS employee had worked for a contractor but left before the service was transferred back to the NHS, then the period when the employee worked for the contracted service which was transferred would be recognised as part of the entitlement for an award. If the contracted service is not transferred back to the NHS, then no part of the service will be recognised.

Nomination Process       

Both staff and managers will be able to register details of the individual who has completed one of the career service milestones. Managers of staff with long service will need to confirm the information as correct. 

You can access the nomination form by clicking here.