This award is for an individual who continues to innovate, develop and grow within their role to improve their service/team and the care of service users/patients.

Dr Ikhloq Ahmed – Acute & Urgent Care

Dr Ikhlaq Ahmed has been nominated for his compassionate, inclusive and committed approach to mental health care, alongside his continued innovation and professional growth across Home Treatment and inpatient services.

Dr Ikhloq Ahmed

Akshaya Jacobs – Secure Care & Offender Health

Akshaya was nominated for her exceptional compassion, calm leadership under pressure, and positive impact as the first international nurse at Reaside Clinic, consistently delivering patient‑centred care while supporting colleagues and inspiring others to thrive.

Akshaya Jacobs

Margaret Marimba – Corporate

Margaret has been nominated for her outstanding innovation, professionalism and commitment to continuous improvement, consistently enhancing employee relations, mentoring colleagues and driving positive change across the People function and the wider organisation.

This award is to recognise a clinical team that has shown how excellent multidisciplinary working is improving the quality of care and experience for our service users/patients. 

East Neighbourhood Mental Health team – Integrated Community Care & Recovery

The East Neighbourhood Mental Health team were nominated for their outstanding leadership, innovation and multidisciplinary collaboration in reducing inequalities and transforming access to inclusive, person‑centred mental health care within some of Birmingham’s most deprived communities.

East Neighbourhood Mental Health team

DICE team – Children and Young people – Children & Young People Division

The DICE team were nominated for their outstanding specialist expertise, compassion and resilience in preventing inappropriate hospital admissions and providing life‑changing, crisis‑focused support to children and young people with learning disabilities and/or autism and their families.

DICE team

Health Care HMP Birmingham – Secure Care & Offender Health

The Birmingham Recovery team were nominated for their exceptional compassion, professionalism, and innovation in delivering safe, inclusive and trauma‑informed substance misuse care to a highly complex and transient prison population in one of the most challenging healthcare environments.

This award is for an individual or team who uses research and innovation in every element of their role to bring about service improvement for our service users/colleagues. 

CAMHS Occupational Therapy team – Secure Care & Offender Health

The CAMHS Occupational Therapy team were nominated for their exceptional creativity, compassion and evidence‑informed practice, using innovative, co‑produced interventions to improve engagement, inclusion and quality of care for young people, families and staff.

CAMHS Occupational Therapy team

Urgent Care Dashboard – Acute & Urgent Care

This team were nominated for their exceptional quality improvement and innovation in developing the urgent care dashboard, transforming how patient journeys, risk and flow are understood and managed to deliver safer, more responsive and equitable care across the urgent care pathway.

Urgent Care Dashboard project team

Physical Health Connector team – Corporate

The Physical Health Connector team were nominated for their outstanding use of research, data and innovation to reduce health inequalities and improve physical health outcomes for people living with Severe Mental Illness through compassionate, inclusive and system‑wide quality improvement.

Physical Health Connector team

For an individual who continually demonstrates our Trust Value of Compassionate in everything they do at work, always listening and considering others. 

Lamin Faal – Secure Care & Offender Health

Lamin was nominated for his exceptional compassion, professionalism and unwavering commitment to person‑centred care, consistently supporting some of the most vulnerable patients with dignity, kindness and calm professionalism while inspiring colleagues and truly living the Trust’s Values every day.

Lamin Faal

Annie Bradley – Integrated Community Care & Recovery

Annie was nominated for her exceptional compassion and commitment to staff wellbeing, creating a supportive, inclusive and positive team culture that strengthens morale and directly enhances the care provided to service users.

Annie Bradley

Aprill Sallah – Secure Care & Offender Health

Aprill was nominated for her exceptional compassion and leadership, consistently supporting staff and service users through busy and crisis periods with kindness, equity and professionalism while truly living the Trust’s Values every day.

For an individual who continually demonstrates our Trust Value of Inclusive, always including and considering others.

Louise Johnson – Corporate

Louise was nominated for her outstanding commitment to inclusion and engagement, leading a Trust‑wide Strategy refresh that ensured the voices of colleagues, patients and carers were genuinely heard and reflected in a strategy for everyone.

Louise Johnson

Dr Fay Cook – Integrated Community Care & Recovery

Dr Fay Cook was nominated for her outstanding commitment to inclusive, compassionate psychological care, meaningfully embedding lived experience, equity and humanity into services while inspiring teams to value every voice and improve access to support for people with personality disorder.

Fay Cook

Joanne Fieldhouse – Specialties

Jo was nominated for her exceptional inclusivity and compassionate leadership, consistently ensuring service users, families and staff feel valued and heard and strengthening team cohesion to deliver better, more person‑centred care.

Joanne Fieldhouse

For an individual who continually demonstrates our Trust Value of Committed, someone who is fully committed to every element of their role, always motivating others.

Mary Eliffe – Secure Care & Offender Health

Mary Elliffe was nominated for her exceptional commitment to co‑production and recovery‑focused care, tirelessly championing lived experience and ensuring service users’ voices are genuinely heard, acted on and embedded across Secure Care services every day.

Mary Eliffe

Claire Terrington – Integrated Community Care & Recovery

Claire Terrington was nominated for her outstanding commitment and courageous leadership in transforming accessible, community‑based mental health care within highly deprived neighbourhoods, consistently putting service users at the heart of inclusive, collaborative and high‑quality care.

Dr Humaira Aziz – Acute & Urgent Care

Dr Humaira Aziz was nominated for her exceptional commitment, compassion and leadership, consistently going above and beyond for patients and colleagues while fostering a supportive, approachable and high‑performing team through her unwavering dedication to mental health care.

Dr Humaira Aziz

This award is for an outstanding and inspirational individual who has dedicated many years of their life to service users and patients, whether that’s as part of Team BSMHFT or to the wider NHS. 

Jonathan Clarke – Acute & Urgent Care

John was nominated for his exceptional compassion, inclusive practice and unwavering commitment, delivering over 25 years of outstanding care in urgent mental health settings while mentoring colleagues, driving safer practice and consistently putting service users at the heart of everything he does.

Liz Cooksey – Integrated Community Care & Recovery

Liz was nominated for her extraordinary compassion, inclusivity and commitment, dedicating 50 years of outstanding service to the NHS while providing trusted, person‑centred leadership and exceptional behind‑the‑scenes support that enables clinical services and colleagues to thrive.

Liz Cooksey

Claire Whittaker – Specialties D&F

Clare was nominated for her exceptional compassion, inclusivity and commitment, combining expert clinical leadership with person‑centred occupational therapy practice to ensure service users and staff feel heard, respected and supported while continuously raising standards of care.

Claire Whittaker

This award is for an individual or team who have supported and promoted the charity, inspiring colleagues to get involved and going the extra mile.

Petra Yeomans – Corporate 

Petra was nominated for her outstanding creativity, dedication and inclusive approach to fundraising for Caring Minds, raising over £4,700 through team‑led initiatives that brought colleagues together and made a real difference to wellbeing across the Trust.

Petra Yeomans

Craig Jordan – Secure Care & Offender Health

Craig was nominated for his exceptional dedication, compassion and leadership in championing Caring Minds through organising and inspiring wide participation in fundraising initiatives such as Movember and the Wolf Run, raising over £2,000 while bringing teams together and boosting staff wellbeing across secure services.

Craig Jordan

Martin Germaney – Summerhill Services Limited

Martin was nominated for his exceptional dedication to Caring Minds, leading impactful fundraising initiatives and delivering wellbeing projects like the Highcroft Nook, while consistently advocating for the charity and going above and beyond to support staff and patients across the Trust.

Martin Germaney