T&C’s
TERMS & CONDITIONS | ALLIED HEALTH AWARDS
Terms
“AHA” refers to Allied Health Awards & their organisers
“AHP” refers to Allied Health Professional
“ Individual” refers to any individual who meets the Application Eligibility Criteria
“ Team/s” refers to any group of 2 or more individuals who contain at least one “individual” as outlined above, whereby the team or practice provides Allied Health services.
“Nomination Form” refers to the AHA Nomination platform available for review at www.alliedhealthawards.awardplatform.com/
“Selection Panel Member” refers to the group of individuals selected to assess the nomination applications against the identified selection criteria.
Application Eligibility Criteria
Nominees or applicants must meet all eligibility criteria;
A) Currently registered to practice through their National Association/Body and can provide the relevant registration number.
B) Has practiced either clinically or non-clinically, a minimum of 6 months in the last 12 months and can provide evidence of such, if required, such as an employer statement, invoices or personal records.
C) Each national Allied Health Awards program is only open to residents and organisations within that country.
Consent to participate
By electronically completing the entry submission and checking all the boxes required the nominee consents to;
All information contained within the nomination application, including all forms and supporting documents and materials, are true and correct and completed with honesty and the best of intentions.
It is a condition of entry that finalists and winners are available for publicity opportunities, which may include advertising features and interviews with in-house or external print, digital or TV media. AHA organisers may use the winners’ names, images, titles, achievements, and voices in the event they are a winner (including photograph, film and/or recording of the same) for an unlimited period of time with no recompense to the winners.
That the nominee has read these Terms & Conditions in their entirety.
Privacy
AHA organisers will always take reasonable steps to unsure your personal information is handled in accordance with Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) when handling all personal information provided for nomination application purposes.
AHA organisers will collect the personal information outlined in the Nomination Form, from either the individual nominee or organisation’s representative, their nominated reference or their professional client. Please notify the AHA organisers by email hello@alliedhealthawards.com if the information is incorrect and requires updating. If this information is not provided, the application for nomination will not be accepted.
Personal information is collected to assess eligibility for an award, aid the selection process for the Selection Panel Members and for statistical analysis in relation to future planning and marketing needs of AHA. AHA may also use this information to maintain an ongoing relationship with nominees, finalists and winners.
By completing the Nomination Form and accepting the Terms & Conditions, all nominees and referees, acknowledge and consent to AHA and the organisers, disclosing their personal information to the following persons and organisations as required; AHA organisers, the person’s assessing the nominations and the event and program contractors performing services on behalf of the AHA organisers.
By completing the Nomination Form and selecting the tick boxes for consent at the time of the submission, all nominees consent to the AHA organisers to publish their personal details, achievements and images in both digital and print media as they see fit, for promotional and marketing purposes.
AHA will not use or disclose any personal information collected for any other purpose unless permitted by the Privacy Act 1988.
Nomination process
Nomination has a small cost to assist with administration costs only.
All submitted forms and documents, and all they contain, including nominee biography and achievement details, must be true, correct and completed with honesty and the best of intentions.
All nomination applications must be received by the advertised closing date and time. Applications received after this time will not be accepted.
All submitted nomination applications, supporting materials and all forms received, remain the property of AHA organisers and will not be returned, instead they will be stored electronically and securely within Australia and according to Australian law.
Once the nomination applications have been received, the selection process remains confidential amongst the AHA organisers and the selection panel members, until the winners are announced at the awards ceremony.
The nominees that achieve finalist status, will be communicated this via email.
Nomination applications can be copied and pasted across different Nomination Forms for multiple categories, however only one category may be applied for, per entry. Please be careful when doing this, however, as some categories now pertain to different weighting within the selection criteria.
There are separate Nomination application processes for the Individual professional categories, the general professional categories (eg Allied Health Educator of the Year) and the Team categories.
Categories may change year to year. If there are insufficient nomination applications for a particular category, that category will be closed for that year’s program. Check the categories out here www.alliedhealthawards.com
Self nomination
Individuals are invited and encouraged to self-nominate and must complete the nomination application and all the submission requirements in its entirety.
Colleague or peer nomination
Individuals ‘initiating’ the nomination process may only start the process, which will notify the nominee by email. The nominee will then need to go to the award platform themselves to both accept the nomination, complete the selection criteria and submit the application which includes paying the small administration fee.
Client nomination
A) No clients or service consumers must be asked, coerced or encouraged to nominate any health professional in any way.
B) Nomination Information may be made available to clients or consumers for information purposes only, but they must not receive any assistance from their nominated health professional to complete the application in any way.
C) Nominees will still be required to respond to the email, accept the nomination and complete the nomination entry forms on the platform.
Selection process
Each award category will be allocated to several selection panel members and each application will be independently scored and reviewed by these panel members, according to the same selection criteria.
Each selection criteria will be scored a number of points, resulting in a maximum possible score of 150 per application.
Finalists and winners will be advised in writing, via email, and published via the website www.alliedhealthawards.com
Both finalists and winners will be published within 24 hours of announcement and will remain on the website.
All decisions made regarding the selection process in identifying both finalists and winners are final and discussions will not be entered into.
The criteria are;
A) Promotion and contribution to their profession
B) Collaborates and communicates within Allied Health community
C) Outstanding client centred, evidence-based health outcomes
D) Outstanding leadership and/or integrity
E) Healthcare impact and innovation over the last 12 months
Selection Panel Members
Selection panel members will be an undisclosed amount of individuals carefully selected to represent the wider health community. Individual selection panel members may include, but are not limited to, AHA organisers, AHPs, business representatives, health organisations and association representatives, academics, health leaders, clinicians and previous AHA winners.
Individuals will be personally invited to join the selector panel for this AHA process.
Individuals agreeable to join the selection panel, must electronically sign the Selection Panel Member Agreement Form provided on the nomination platform and read through these Terms & Conditions in their entirety.
All selection panel members agree to declare any relationship, professional or otherwise with any nominee given to them for assessment against the selection criteria. In such a circumstance, that individual panel member agrees to destroy the nomination application and advise the AHA organisers so they may allocate a replacement selection panel member for the nomination assessment.
Awards Presentation
All finalists are invited to attend the presentation ceremony and must advise the event organisers if they are to attend the Awards presentation event prior to the day. If a finalist cannot attend the gala live, they must nominate a representative to receive the trophy.
Each category winner will be announced and presented at the AHA gala presentation ceremony. After this time, all category winners will be published across a variety of online and print media.
Details of awards gala dates and ticket pricing will be provided via the website.
Refunds are not available for any gala tickets purchased. Should the event be postponed, credits will be allocated
Categories
The organisers are required to receive five or more nomination applications for a particular category within the advertised time frames, otherwise that category will no longer be eligible and will be closed for the current awards season.
Should the organisers only receive five nomination applications, each application will become a finalist for that particular category.
Prizes
Winners will receive an digital certificate of achievement in addition to the digital promotional winner graphic.
Winners will also receive access to world class Allied Health Leadership training.
A beautiful trophy.
Code of Conduct
These award programs are created for Allied Health professionals, by Allied Health professionals. Kindness and respect are required through all communications and interactions please.
We have a zero tolerance policy on bullying. Bullying, harassment or intimidation of other nominees, awards organisers or program partners will not be tolerated
Nominees behaving unethically or unprofessionally may be disqualified at the organisers discretion and will not be refunded. No correspondence will be entered into.
These awards are competitive and not everyone can be a finalist or a winner, while this may be disappointing for some, all nominees are expected to act professionally at all times. Individuals who fail to act professionally may be asked to retract their nomination from the awards and will not be refunded.
We are happy to provide feedback on nomination applications, however we cannot guarantee that we can complete this task to your timeline. This will also need to be several weeks AFTER the gala has occurred for that program.
Due to the large volume of emails we receive we regret we are unable to answer all individual email questions in a consistently timely manner. Please refer to the FAQs before emailing an enquiry.
Accepting these terms and conditions is a condition of entry.
Complaints About Nominees: Any concerns about the professionalism or ethics of nominees should be directed to the appropriate national governing body. The selection panel will consider only finalized findings. Nominees are required to provide verifiable referee details and registration declarations.
Please contact the organizers of the Allied Health Awards for any further information, or to provide feedback to improve the program, at hello@alliedhealthawards.com. For more details, visit our website at www.alliedhealthawards.com.