IHEEM HEALTHCARE ESTATES 2021 AWARDS Apprentice of the Year


The Apprentice of the Year Award sought entries from apprentices at intermediate, advanced, higher, and degree level. Shortlisted were: n Ross Woodhouse, Kingfisher Learning Trust.


n Ben Murphy, Medical Engineer at James Cook University Hospital.


n Christopher Barnett, Apprentice at Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS FT.


n Britney Jarvis, Apprentice at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS FT. n Polly Every, Royal Cornwall Hospital.


Andy Powell announced that the winner was Britney Jarvis, who could not attend the ceremony in Manchester, but watched the awards presentation online.


No prior engineering workplace knowledge


Her entry said: “I started at 17 – with no knowledge of an engineering workplace – in the Clinical Engineering Department at South Tyneside Hospital, spending four days a week at college. The first few weeks at college were difficult, as I was the only woman. After a few weeks, however, I was fully comfortable. After six months, the PEO and PLTS were complete and passed to the highest standard. I continued to study the BTEC Level 3. I became more confident with the systems and equipment at work, and helped with the planned preventative maintenance of over 150 high-risk infusion devices. I completed my BTEC Level 3 with a distinction. Within my third year, I started my HNC Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and attended an IHEEM conference with directors. I went to local schools with IHEEM to talk to secondary school children about non-clinical NHS opportunities available to them. I completed manufacturers’ courses on patient monitors, general anaesthetics, and ventilation, and during Women in Engineering Day was interviewed about my role and being a woman in engineering. In my third year COVID became part of our lives, and our hospital was badly hit. I played a big part in helping the wards move, and set up many so they were ready for more patients. I stayed back and started early, and worked weekends to help with COVID pressures.


Challenging on all fronts “My final year was definitely the most challenging for me physically, mentally, and emotionally. I started my second year HNC, completed all my NVQ work, and was fully signed off before anyone else. I started to prepare for the End Point Assessment, and completed three more manufacturers’ courses, on two different ventilators and an anaesthetic machine. I


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The Hull University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust Capital Team picked up the Sustainable Achievement Award.


was involved in National Apprenticeship Week, and completed an IHEEM questionnaire published on Facebook and Twitter about apprenticeships’ importance. I also joined an IHEEM Young Members Forum for ideas on how to engage young members, with many of my ideas taken on board. I completed the EPA, achieving a distinction for the HNC.”


Sustainable Achievement Award Andy Powell here explained that the next award presented would be the Sustainable Achievement Award. Shortlisted were: n Foleshill Health Centre, Community Health Partnerships.


n Hull University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust Capital Team.


The winner was the Hull University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust Capital Team, a number of whom were in Manchester to pick up the award from Andy Powell. The judges commented: “A real exemplar for the rest of the NHS; a Trust with a sustainability plan with proven actions and outcomes.”


Committed to delivering NHS Net Zero targets


The Trust’s entry said it was ‘committed to delivering the NHS net zero targets’, and had recently approved its new Green Plan ‘setting out ambitious targets to achieve net zero by 2030’. Much of its recent carbon-cutting work has focused on reducing emissions from its estate, and specifically cutting energy usage to deliver a financial saving – resulting in an emissions reduction of just under 8,000 tonnes since 2009/10 from on-site energy use. The Trust has five electric vehicles in its fleet, with plans to increase this, while in late 2020 it secured a £12.6 m grant to support its decarbonisation, enabling it to


focus on key areas to deliver a forecast carbon saving of over 1,000 tonnes, all delivered by its Capital Development Department.


Estates & Facilities Team of the Year Award


The Estates & Facilities Team of the Year Award, sponsored by HEJ, saw the following organisations shortlisted: n Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT Estates & Facilities Team.


n Liverpool Women’s Hospital Neonatal Unit.


n Barnsley Facilities Services Estates & FM – ‘Going above and beyond’.


n The Estates & Facilities Team – Community Health Partnerships.


Andy Powell said: “Highly commended was the Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT Estates and Facilities Team, but the winner is Barnsley Facilities Services Estates & FM – ‘Going above and beyond’. Please congratulate the team, who are both online and I believe here in Manchester.”


A wide range of EFM activities and initiatives


An extract from the highly commended Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT Estates & Facilities Team’s award entry said: “Last year, our E&F team logged 13,981 enquiries, generating 15,121 reactive works, issued 567,341 pieces of laundry, and 4,018 uniforms, handled 577.06 tonnes of recycling with no domestic waste sent to landfill, replaced 1,082 luminaires with LED fittings – generating current annual savings of £15.5,000, 129 MW/hr, and 66 tonnes of C02


. They


also refurbished two wards, produced an Estates Strategy aligned to clinical and digital and wider STP strategies, installed reception areas within wards 11 and 12 at


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