TOP TIPS FOR YOUR AWARDS NOMINATION APPLICATION
1. Head over to the nomination platform and register an account - it’s free to do so. Then start your entry, select one category per entry and move through the tabs, answering the questions. You can always save your progress and come back to it as many times as you like. Once happy with your entry, click submit, pay the administration fee of $25 and you will be emailed confirmation and your nominee graphic for your own promotional use.
2. Submit group nominations and SAVE - pay for 4, then all subsequent nominations are free!
3. You could certainly just complete your answers to the selection criteria within the platform or you could start your response in a Word document and then once happy with the content, copy/paste into the nomination application online.
4. For individual applications, we require the nominee’s current CV / resume and headshot. For team nominations, we require the team logo and/or the team’s photo and you can attach any documents within the nomination platform.
5. Address each of the selection criteria, using the word count guide. Include at least one example for each criteria that demonstrates how the nominee or the team addresses that area.
6. Proof read your application, ensuring all spelling/grammar/formatting has been checked
7. Submit it online BEFORE the closing date - the nomination platform will not allow you to submit any entries after this time.
8. Regardless of where you work, what area you work in or whether you work clinically, academically, individually or in a team – you are eligible for at least one of our award categories.
9. The selection criteria are;
Promotion & contribution to the profession and/or setting
Collaborates & effectively communicates within the Allied Health community
Outstanding client-centred, evidence based service delivery or health outcomes
Outstanding leadership and integrity
Impact & innovation - with a focus over the last 12 months
10. The Allied Health Awards programs do not simply measure success by rapid service growth, social media status or financial achievement. Our values include innovation, collaboration and inspiration to achieve the best health outcomes for both the public community and our Allied Health community. Demonstrating your support for these values in your approach to the selection criteria will hold your application in good stead.
11. If you are submitting an application for a general or team category, eg Allied Health Leadership & Management Excellence, consider including examples that demonstrate and focus on skills and experience in this area under each selection criteria. For example, initiation, managing or leading of education programs, groups, research, charities, conferences, supervision, team members, workplace safety, strategy and growth activities – which may or may not involve direct client clinical care and may be discussed and applied with examples across many of the selection criteria.
11. Outstanding ‘client-centred evidence-based health outcomes’ may be clinical, academic, project or non-clinical business achievement leading to improved health outcomes for either the national population or your national health professional colleagues. Your ‘clients’ do not need to be patients or users specifically.
12. Nomination applications for the team awards may demonstrate both individual and group achievements that contribute to the overall performance of a successful and thriving clinical or non-clinical team.
13. For the ‘general’ categories available to individuals, eg Impact & Innovation, Educator or Early Career Excellence - please check the selection criteria carefully. They will carry different weighting for each of these categories this year.
14. After reading through these Top Tips, the Nomination platform, FAQs and the Terms & Conditions documents – if you still have questions or comments please send them through to hello@alliedhealthawards.com
Best of luck!
Sarena & the Allied Health Awards team