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Mask-makers, swabbers, shop workers, charities and the corona virus helpline team are among the 45 islanders and organisations recognised by the Bailiff with a new set of awards.
The 'Covid-19 Awards' were created to celebrate the work and commitment of “deserving members of the community who have demonstrated exemplary qualities” to their peers, colleagues, staff, or to the general public during the covid-19 response.
The criteria for nominations were based on the themes of leadership, commitment, inspiration, tenacity and compassion.
Pictured: The Bailiff, Mr Timothy Le Cocq at the Nightingale Hospital in Jersey.
In total, the Bailiff’s Chambers received 110 submissions and 45 individuals and organisations were chosen to receive an award. 17 will receive the Bailiff’s Award, a gold duplicate of the Bailiff’s seal marking “an exceptional contribution” to the island community while 28 will receive the Bailiff’s citation, a certificate to recognise “special efforts” in the response to the pandemic.
A number of civil servants feature in the list, including the team from the corona virus helpline; Gillian Mallet and Allison Mills, who lead the Harbour Arrivals Testing Centre and the Airport testing facility respectively and Alison de Bourcier, who created the contact testing process for the island.
Individuals involved in local charities such as Brighter Futures, St. John Ambulance and the Rotary Club of Jersey or community groups like the Hollies Day Centre Gorey have also been recognised.
Pictured: Volunteers from the Salvation Army's food bank ran by Alice and Richard Nunn.
Alice and Richard Nunn, who ran a food bank through lockdown and beyond, from the Salvation Army, also feature among the individuals recognised with the Bailiff’s Awards.
Victoria College student, Samuel Moore, and Shirley Baudains will also receive the Award for having made hundreds of face coverings.
Simon Soar, the Chief Executive of the Jersey Hospitality Assocation, is among the people to receive the Bailiff’s citation in recognition of his “exceptional leadership qualities of communication, adaptability and compassion”.
The team which developed a distribution system for PPE across the island – Bernard Place, Dr Christ Edmond, Deidra Ahier, Sue Short and Nathan Wright – will also receive the citation.
Pictured: The team which organised the distribution of PPE is among the 45 individuals recognised by the Bailiff.
“Following our request to submit individual names and teams for recognition it was a great pleasure to see so many responses,” the Bailiff, Mr Timothy Le Cocq, said.
“These awards recognise the work of so many across our community. So many people have worked so hard that it was difficult to make a choice and the choices that we have made are well-deserving of recognition for exceptional work during the pandemic. Often it was a real challenge to encapsulate all that the recipients had done in a citation of a few lines.”
Describing the 45 recipients, the Bailiff said they were “excellent examples of community spirit” that we can look to for inspiration. “It is perhaps invidious to single people out but perhaps we can be forgiven for mentioning Samuel Moore a student at Victoria College, who did many charitable acts during the lockdown and Nurse Gillian Mallet, who demonstrated exceptional leadership in running the Harbour testing facility.
Pictured: Gillian Mallet, the Covid-19 Clinical Lead for the Harbour Arrivals Testing Centre, and her daughter Sophie.
“These are just 2 of the 45 and there could have been many more, I am sure islanders will think of other names that would have been worthy recipients.
“Covid-19 continues to test our community, but with individuals such as those recognised with these awards, we are a stronger and safer community. We have a community to be proud of.”
Pictured: Shirley Baudains was recognised for making over 400 masks for vulnerable patients, colleagues and staff at the hospital.
Shirley Baudains – Bailiff’s Award
Commitment and compassion - Selfless and valuable contribution to the local community during the covid-19 pandemic, making 400+ re-usable fabric face masks for vulnerable patients, colleagues and staff at the Jersey General Hospital.
Damon Snowdon - Bailiff’s Award
Commitment and Compassion – For exceptional services to the Senior Citizens through Age Concern.
Alice and Richard Nunn - Bailiff’s Award
Commitment and compassion – for services to the Island community, supporting disadvantaged families and individuals by coordinating the provision of a volunteer Food Bank.
Andrea Ghisoi - Bailiff’s Award
Commitment and compassion – for exceptional services to the Romanian community.
Samuel Moore (Victoria College, Senior) - Bailiff’s Award
Commitment and compassion – for executing a number of charitable acts including the production of face coverings and raising money for charity. An example to all students of contribution to our community.
Pictured: Claire O’Connell who created the Jersey – Acts of Kindness Facebook group will be receiving the Bailiff's Citation.
Claire O’Connell (Jersey – Acts of Kindness, Facebook group) - Bailiff’s Citation
Inspiration – established a Facebook page to direct goodwill gestures from across the island, enabling others who wanted to donate simple items who did not know how.
Tracey Goodwin (Alliance Supermarket) – Bailiff’s Citation
Commitment – demonstrated a professional and caring attitude towards all customers. Was an example to all throughout the 'lockdown', despite substantial pressure kept the supermarket open and running smoothly.
Liz Gibaut – Bailiff’s Citation
Compassion – cared for senior citizens in unique situations with no immediate family. Providing a life line to a specific couple.
Philip Le Claire – Bailiff’s Citation
Tenacity and Compassion - served the Island tirelessly throughout Spring and Summer. Selflessly delivered music over social media every evening and during the day with absolute dedication and commitment at all times.
Stuart Young (Gorey Ice Cream Van) - Bailiff’s Citation
Compassion – Mr Young provided a respite to health workers in the General Hospital by offering free ice-cream during the pandemic. Despite a small gesture the act is an example of the gratitude of the island to frontline workers.
Charities and organisations
Pictured: Local charity Brighter Futures has been recognised for its continued wellbeing and mental health support to the community.
Brighter Futures Leadership Team – Bailiff’s Award
Leadership and commitment - For continued wellbeing and mental health support to the community.
Angie Falle (Rotary Club of Jersey) – Bailiff’s Citation
Leadership and Compassion – demonstrated exceptional enthusiasm, leadership skills and compassion for the senior citizens. During the time of the pandemic she has shown how adaptable, resourceful the Rotary Club could be to benefit the island.
Malcolm Ferey (Citizens Advice Bureau) – Bailiff’s Award
Leadership and Commitment – working and coordinating parishes, voluntary and community sectors as part of the Community Taskforce in order to support islanders who were disadvantaged during the Covid Pandemic.
The Hollies Day Centre Gorey – Bailiff’s Citation
Commitment - exceptional dedication, commitment and service to the public during the Covid 19 lockdown in 2020. Under the leadership of Carol Lindsay the organisation demonstrated "exemplary qualities to the general public” over the past few months.
Pictured: Lucy Nicolaou, Manager at L.I.N.C. Mental Health & Wellbeing.
Lucy Nicolaou (The Listening Lounge) – Bailiff’s Citation
Commitment - Due to her dedication to mental health service provision on the Island, the Listening Lounge remained open for 12 hours a day throughout lockdown and vital mental health service remained available when others were forced to reduce service as a result of the pandemic.
Maria Le Tiec (Ports of Jersey) - Bailiff’s Citation
Commitment – demonstrating excellent customer service during pandemic conditions, being resourceful and overcoming regular challenges that threatened consistent service.
Sarah-Louise Stubbs (Ports of Jersey) - Bailiff’s Citation
Commitment – demonstrating excellent customer service during pandemic conditions, being resourceful and overcoming regular challenges that threatened consistent service.
Pictured: Simon Soar, the CEO of Jersey Hospitality Association.
Simon Soar (Jersey Hospitality Association) - Bailiff’s Citation
Leadership – Simon’s exceptional leadership qualities of communication, adaptability and compassion have supported and continue to support the livelihoods of several thousand families.
Lynn Bouchard (St John Ambulance) - Bailiff’s Citation
Leadership and Commitment – demonstrating leadership, exceptional commitment and dedication when executing her roles as PPE Trainer and leader of the SJA antibody testing centre.
Captain Ross Barnes (Jersey Field Squadron) - Bailiff’s Citation
Commitment and Tenacity – the Team developed a solution to ensure safe and fair distribution of PPE across the island to vital services including frontline workers in a health setting. The development of this function required fast paced collaborative working to achieve a goal of getting PPE to those who needed it.
Kate Briden (Group Director for Public Protection and Law Enforcement) - Bailiff’s Award
Leadership - Provided leadership and guidance to staff and stakeholders, negotiating and influencing colleagues to setup new arrangements, supporting others who were familiar with centralised coordination
Coronavirus Helpline Team - Bailiff’s Award
Commitment and compassion - The Coronavirus helpline was rapidly established during the pandemic as a front line phone service for Islanders to answer all Coronavirus questions and concerns and triage those with symptoms to a health specific team overseeing testing.
Vicki Charlesworth (Headteacher Les Landes Primary School and St Peter’s Primary School) – Bailiff’s Award
Leadership and compassion - Demonstrated determination, empathy and tireless commitment leading the school successfully though such a difficult and unprecedented time.
Alison Mills (Clinical Lead Airport Arrivals Test Centre) - Bailiff’s Award
Leadership – for leading and coordinating the Airport covid testing facility.
A huge thank you and well done to the Covid 19 Harbour screening team for being truly amazing,also airport arrivals @AllisonEMills and airport drive through @catherinamarcr1 for coming together and supporting each other today. @MartynBrydon @MartinWarnette pic.twitter.com/6R2iC0Cm9O
— Clinical Lead Covid-19 Harbour & Workforce testimg (@jsy7075) August 8, 2020
Gillian Mallet (Covid-19 Clinical Lead for the Harbour Arrivals Testing Centre) - Bailiff’s Award
Leadership - demonstrating exceptional leadership and inspiration for the testing team at the Harbour covid testing facility.
Joanne Currie – Bailiff’s Award
Commitment – Joanne was seconded to the Office of Chief Executive (Government of Jersey) operating in a pressurised environment to ensure senior officials were informed of the risk and other issues developing across government in order to take a consistent view across government.
Alison de Bourcier (Head of Contact Tracing Teams) – Bailiff’s Award
Leadership and Tenacity – Alison created and implemented the contact tracing process for Jersey. Demonstrating exceptional Leadership and tenacity in order to deliver a challenging process in an fast changing environment.
Beverley Edwards (Head of Health & Social Care Informatics) – Bailiff’s Award
Leadership - Beverly lead on health and social care informatics during the pandemic. Collating high quality information that enabled not only government to make informed decisions but provided consistent information for the general public.
Pictured: The Chief Librarian, Edward Jewell, is among the 45 recognised.
Edward Jewell (Chief Librarian) – Bailiff’s Award
All categories – Delivered a Library service to the island under pandemic conditions. In order to deliver this service he demonstrated considerable Leadership, inspiring the delivery team and contributing to vital life line for many islanders.
Work & Family Hub - Bailiff’s Award
Commitment and Tenacity - For continued high standard of service to Families and vulnerable individuals throughout the Covid pandemic.
Youth Work staff team - Bailiff’s Award
Commitment and Tenacity – For continued service to children and young people throughout the Covid pandemic.
Heather McManus – Bailiff’s Citation
Compassion – as Safeguarding Manager, used her knowledge to help remove barriers in order to allow families and idividuals access to vital services including Emergency accommodation, food banks and financial assistance.
Jenny O’Brien (Head of Digital and Public Engagement) – Bailiff’s Citation
Leadership – delivered a balanced and vital communication strategy for the community taskforce allowing all stakeholders and benefiting parties to understand the response package.
PPE Delivery Arrives in Jersey (April 2020) from Bailiwick Express on Vimeo.
Video: The distribution of PPE also involved the Jersey Field Squadron.
Bernard Place, Dr Chris Edmond, Deidra Ahier, Sue Short and Nathan Wright (PPE) – Bailiff’s Citation
Commitment and Tenacity – the Team developed a solution to ensure safe and fair distribution of PPE across the island to vital services including frontline workers in a health setting. The development of this function required fast paced collaborative working to achieve a goal of PPE for those who need it.
Police and Honorary Police
Danny Scaife, Rob Beaumont and Paul Battrick MBE (Operation Talla) – Bailiff’s Citation
Leadership and Commitment – devised and delivered a model to ensure balanced, consistent and appropriately resourced honorary policing during the pandemic.
Police Sergeant Paul Smith - Bailiff’s Citation
Commitment and Tenacity – Police Sgt Paul Smith gave exceptional service acting as the conduit between the Government of Jersey ‘One Gov Covid team’ and the States of Jersey Police, enabling a consistent understanding of the ever-developing government strategies for the operational police service.
Parish services
Pictured: The St. Helier Parish Community Services Team has also been recognised.
St. Helier Parish Community Services Team – Bailiff’s Citation
Compassion and Commitment – the team collaborated in an exemplary manner to serve the Parish of St. Helier during a time of high demands on its services.
Parish of St Martin's Food Bank Volunteers - Bailiff’s Citation
Compassion and Commitment – the team of volunteers provided food packages for those in need of vital foodstuffs. This service was delivered with a warm and selfless approach by all volunteers.
Shona Ringsdore (Parish of St. Saviour) - Bailiff’s Citation
Compassion and Leadership – leading the parish community support group that provided assistance to parishioners of St Saviour.
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