Our values awards winners

Value award: dynamic

Winner: Anneka Patel

Programme manager - COVID-19, Centre for Guidelines

Anneka Patel, values awards winner

Anneka constantly adapts to changing priorities on a weekly and daily basis. She's willing to experiment and innovate, and has led on the implementation of a new digital solution, MAGICapp. Anneka has challenged both herself and others to embrace this radical change. In only 3 months since the tool has been adopted, there's been improvements to the tool and to our ways of working.

With a positive attitude, Anneka has enabled team mates to take managed risks and view the tool as an innovation opportunity. Most importantly, Anneka uses change as a chance to learn. She has established a process for capturing and sharing successes and failures. She has engaged and supported the whole team to approach change as an opportunity to improve and continuously reflect on our digital endeavours.

Value award: excellent

Winner: Nat Murray

Communications executive - internal and web, Communications Directorate

Nat Murray, values awards winner

Nat joined us towards the end of November 2020. It's no small feat for one person to take on the delivery of the internal communications service for an entire organisation. To do it while working virtually as well is nothing short of amazing.

Nat fit into the team straight away and immediately proved she has an excellent work ethic. She's picked everything up so quickly, building really positive relationships across all parts of NICE and producing excellent work.

In particular, she led on delivering the internal communications campaign for our values and behaviours, including developing all the internal assets, and the campaign has been a great success. Not bad for someone who's only been with us for 6 months! She's set the bar incredibly high for the next 6 and there's no doubt she can deliver!

Value award: kind

Winner: Marcela Haasova

Health technology assessment analyst, Centre for Health Technology Evaluation

Marcela Haasova, values awards winner

Since the start of the pandemic, Marcela's team has had a lot of new analysts and assistant analysts. Marcela recognised the need for these people to be able to meet other team members and support each other. To not feel isolated and to share experiences of starting in a new job in these unusual circumstances. She set up and runs a weekly new starter catch up meeting. The group also now includes analysts returning from maternity leave, and although many are no longer ‘new starters’ they still attend these catch ups.

It was particularly kind of Marcela to run these weekly sessions. Especially considering heavy individual and team workloads. It's really helped other analysts who were buddies to new starters to have a structure they could work with. For the new starters, this group has helped tremendously in settling into NICE and having somewhere to go to ask questions and learn from others.

Marcela has demonstrated the 'kind' value by setting up this peer support group. Which also promotes good first impressions and reinforces that we are a ‘kind’ organisation. We consider people’s experiences of working here rather than just meeting deadlines.