The Dorset Echo is delighted to introduce Nurse Plus, the principal sponsor for the Dorset Echo Care Awards.

Nurse Plus is a local healthcare recruitment agency offering specialist domiciliary and establishment care to those who need it most across the UK.

Incorporated in 2005, Nurse Plus was created by a group of committed individuals with significant experience in healthcare recruitment with an aim to provide a quality care service and offer support when it is most vital.

Their dedicated and professional teams provide care and support for older people, children and young adults with mental health problems, physical and sensory impairments, learning disabilities, acquired brain injuries, spinal injury or complex care needs.

Nurse Plus are dedicated to providing personalised care. They do not use call centres and each regional branch manages its own 'out of hours' on-call service.

They now run a network of over 50 offices strategically situated throughout the UK from Merseyside to Cornwall.

As experts in quality care, Nurse Plus have teamed up with the Echo to recognise unsung heroes involved in care, whether through voluntary acts or permanent employment.

Pamela Bruce, Managing Director of Nurse Plus said: "Nurse Plus is proud to be supporting the Dorset Echo Care Awards 2017.

"By working in partnership and sharing the news of valued care workers in the industry, together we are supporting the wider healthcare sector and promoting the benefits of working in care.

"The care industry continues to receive negative media attention, yet care, nursing and support workers are striving to provide quality, personalised care to those that live there. By sponsoring these awards Nurse Plus felt this was a way to celebrate and recognise this hard work."

The Dorset Echo Care Awards will bring together nominations for care provided in the DT postcode sector. 

Individuals or businesses are welcome to nominate themselves and anyone who has experienced or witnessed an act of care deserving of an award can enter a nomination in any of the following categories.

  • Best Volunteer / Unpaid Carer
  • Best Home Carer
  • Best Care Home
  • Best Nurse
  • Best Social Care Worker
  • Unsung Hero Award
  • Best Care Organisation
  • Best Under 18 Care Provider
  • Best Family Member Care Provider

How to enter:
To enter a send a 100-250 word description of your care hero by email to debbie.hellaby@dorsetecho.co.uk with Care Awards in the subject line.