Halima Barbe Named Reed Carer of the Year

London 7th September - Halima Barbe, currently working with Dementia Care Partnerships and At Home In the Community in Newcastle, was crowned Reed Carer of the Year at a prestigious awards lunch held at County Hall in London on 3rd September.

A support worker with Dementia Care Partnerships for the past five years, Halima was nominated by 22 people - including service users and colleagues. In addition to being the inaugural winner of the Reed Carer of the Year Award, Halima also received a £1,000 cash prize to treat herself to a break.

"It is fantastic to receive this award, but the reality is that I just love being a carer - encouraging people, promoting independence and helping them live a better life," explained Halima.

Irene Wilson, Halima's Team Leader at Dementia Care Partnerships, advised: ""Halima has worked for us for five years and is a very flexible and hard-working individual who is always requested by clients. She has an outstanding personality and in particular has changed the life of one lady."

The Reed Carer of the Year Awards were created by Reed Social Care and run in association with Sue Ryder Care. Commenting on the success of the inaugural awards, Reed Social Care Director Leslie Weare said: "We were delighted to receive so many outstanding nominations for a large number of exceptional individuals working in Social Work and Care, and Halima was a very deserved winner."

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About the Reed Carer of the Year Awards
Set up in 2009 by Reed Social Care to recognise outstanding individuals working in social and domiciliary care, the inaugural Reed Carer of the Year Awards were run in association with Sue Ryder Care.

Nominations were made online at www.reedcareroftheyear.co.uk, at Sue Ryder Care and at branches of Reed Social Care, and for each nomination received Reed Social Care donated £8.70 to the Sue Ryder Care charity towards an hour of care.

About Reed Social Care
Reed Social Care is one of the UK’s largest providers of social care and social work staff to local government, private and voluntary organisations.

With a national network of 17 offices and over 100 employees, supported by industry leading technology, Reed Social Care has become a market leader in the sector. They conduct both temporary and permanent recruitment within the qualified and unqualified Social Care markets, and supply candidates who possess a wide range of skills into a variety of roles and areas.

About Reed Specialist Recruitment
Reed Specialist Recruitment is part of Reed Global, which also includes Europe's biggest jobsite - reed.co.uk; one of the world's leading Welfare To Work providers - Reed In Partnership; and the UK's learning provider of the year - Reed Learning.

Founded in 1960, Reed is a specialist provider of permanent, contract, temporary and outsourced recruitment solutions, and IT and HR consulting.

Reed operates in Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific and has more than 3,000 permanent employees working out of 400 offices worldwide across more than 30 specialisms.

reedglobal.com enables clients to interact with our recruitment services and jobseekers to search for opportunities across multiple industry sectors around the world. reed.co.uk receives over 1.5 million job applications per month.

Reed is passionate about the environment, has an award-winning environmental programme and continues to maintain its Carbon Neutral (R) status and commitment to being Carbon Responsible.

About Sue Ryder Care
Sue Ryder Care is a charity providing four million hours of compassionate care each year to people living with long-term and end of life conditions such as cancer, brain injury, multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease, Huntington's and Parkinson's disease, stroke and dementia.

They deliver specialist caring services in people's own homes, in the community and within Sue Ryder Care hospices and care centres - enabling people to manage their treatment and live their lives to the full.

Through innovation and research, Sue Ryder Care works to improve standards in long-term and end of life care, and recently received government recognition for improving end of life care for people with long-term conditions. A research partnership with the University of Nottingam is extending skills and knowledge across the sector, and the charity has piloted leading hospice at home services and holistic care management programmes for people with complex physical and psychological needs.

For further media information please contact Adrian Linden, PR Manager, Reed Press Office:

t: 0845 241 9249
e: press.office@reed.co.uk

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