Here's all you need to know for the 2021 CIPD Northern Ireland HR Awards, which take place at the Crowne Plaza Belfast on Thursday 7 October. If you're joining us online the awards ceremony starts at 3.30pm. cipdniawards.co.uk See you there!
Northern Ireland HR Awards 2021
Thursday 7 October Crowne Plaza, Belfast
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Welcome to the CIPD Northern Ireland HR Awards 2021 We're absolutely delighted to be celebrating in person with people professionals from across Northern Ireland this afternoon, as well as with those joining us virtually.
It’s been a challenging time and many in HR, L&D and OD have worked tirelessly to put their people first. People professionals have led their organisation’s response to COVID, and continue to do so. The quality of entries for this year’s awards truly demonstrates the critical role that HR plays in delivering outstanding people initiatives that are transforming working lives in the most difficult times.
A big congratulations for all the outstanding work, and to the individuals and teams who have made this year's shortlist.
Judging across several categories was particularly tricky this year. I’d like to thank our judges for their efforts in reviewing all entries and for taking a whole day out of their busy schedules to interview all those shortlisted. Each interview allows candidates the opportunity to bring their submission to life, helping the judges reach those difficult decisions as to who is the most deserving winner. Many thanks also to our sponsors without whom we wouldn't be able to run the awards, in particular to MCS Group, our headline sponsor, who are sponsoring the awards for a third consecutive year, and to our media sponsor nijobfinder, who we collaborate with on a number of events throughout the year.
Have a great afternoon.
Lee Panglea
Lee Ann Panglea Head of the CIPD in Scotland and Northern Ireland
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Menu
Leek and potato soup with assorted bread rolls
Supreme of chicken, chorizo and sunblushed tomato farci basil and leek cream
Trio of desserts
Salted chocolate profiterole Mango and passion fruit torte Raspberry and white chocolate tart
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Programme
13:00
Welcome drinks
13:30
Call to lunch
13:40
Welcome - Pamela Ballantine
Lee Ann Panglea, Head of the CIPD in Scotland and NI Beth McMaw Considine, CIPD NI Branch Chair
13:50
Phil Clarke, MCS Group
13:55
Lunch and entertainment - Daisie Conway
15:30
Awards ceremony, hosted by Pamela Ballantine
16:30
Close
The CIPD in Northern Ireland would like to thank Ross License and the team at Libra Events for all their support with managing this year's awards. As you can imagine, with the uncertainty of the past year, we have had to work with several different scenarios and we hugely appreciate all the help and advice in what have been challenging times for us all.
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Judges
Sincere thanks to our judges for all their support.
Wendy Close Group HR Director Prestige Insurance Holdings
John Conaghan Group Director of Professional Services, Inspire
Dr Denise Currie Senior Lecturer, Director of Post Graduate Education Queen's Management School
Carol Fitzsimons MBE Chief Executive Young Enterprise Northern Ireland
Paul Gillen Partner Pinsent Masons
Eileen Hanna Senior Director Compensation & Benefits Hertz International
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Group HR Director SHS Group Chris Lillie
Jane McDonald Manager, HR Projects and Engagement CIPD Ireland
Lee Ann Panglea Head of the CIPD in Scotland and Northern Ireland
Stephen Pobjoy Senior Stakeholder Lead CIPD
Helen Sullivan Graduate Programme Director for EMEA Deals PwC
Caronline van der Feltz HR Director Danske Bank UK
Will Young Assistant Chief Officer People and OD Police Service of Northern Ireland
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Shortlist
Outstanding HR student of the year
Best change management initiative
Sponsored by
Sponsored by
Shortlist:
Shortlist:
Tracy Duggan, XLNI Paula O’Connell, Sensata Technologies Rebecca Shields, Queen’s University Belfast Naomi Smyth, Ulster University
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council Bank of Ireland Education Authority Northern Ireland Southern Regional College
Best remote and flexible working initiative
Embedding a culture of workplace wellbeing
Sponsored by
Sponsored by
Shortlist:
Shortlist:
Allstate Northern Ireland Bank of Ireland Food Standards Agency Inspire PwC Operate South Eastern Regional College
Allstate Northern Ireland Bank of Ireland Education Authority Northern Ireland Food Standards Agency PwC Operate
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Shortlist
Best L&D initiative
Best inclusion and diversity initiative
Sponsored by
Sponsored by
Shortlist:
Shortlist:
Belfast Health & Social Care Trust Inspire Department of Public Expenditure & Reform and Think People Consulting CDE Global
Bank of Ireland Education Authority Northern Ireland – Employee menopause policy and support initiative Education Authority Northern Ireland – Introduction of the disability employment support service Police Service of Northern Ireland
External consultancy
Shortlist:
Excellence in people management practice in SMEs
HealthSectorTalent® Jill Little Consultancy Think People Consulting
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Excellence in HR leadership
Shortlist:
Clarke Cleaver Fulton Rankin Labour Relations Agency
Sponsored by
Only the winner of this award will be announced at the event.
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Shortlist
Best HR/L&D team of the year Sponsored by
Outstanding contribution in the field of people development in Northern Ireland Sponsored by This award is presented to an individual in recognition of their outstanding and exceptional contribution to the profession within Northern Ireland.
Shortlist:
Allstate Northern Ireland Bank of Ireland Belfast Health & Social Care Trust Devenish Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service Tobermore
The nominees were proposed and voted for by our judging panel.
The winner is an individual who has a passion for excellence; whose work demonstrates impact and serves as a model for others; and who is an ambassador for the HR profession in the wider business community.
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Many thanks to our sponsors
Headline sponsor
Media partner
Individual award sponsors
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Our sponsors
Established in 2008, MCS Group has cemented itself as Northern Ireland’s leading specialist recruitment consultancy working across multiple industries: IT & Digital, Technical & Engineering, HR, Legal & Compliance, Accounting & Finance, Sales and Marketing and Executive Search. Working with 92% of NI's top 200 companies, MCS support employers in building high performing businesses by connecting them with the most talented candidates in the market. Specialist Consultants at MCS use their market knowledge to help professionals develop their careers by understanding their aspirations and connecting them to the best job opportunities.
This year MCS have significantly expanded their footprint into ROI and the US markets with ambitious plans to build the team further over the next three years.
nijobfinder is Northern Ireland’s only cross-platform recruitment portal delivering an audience of 523,000* adults across our website and recruitment print supplements. We are the trusted recruitment partner of 1000s of NI businesses and are a three times winner of the Best Regional Job Board at the National Online Recruitment Awards. Our in-paper supplements within the Belfast Telegraph (Friday) and in Sunday Life are at the heart of the local jobs market, making them a must read for those searching for a job or new staff. The people, the jobs and the issues surrounding the employment scene are covered in more depth than any other publisher in this country. We invest continually in the functionality of our website, introducing new features that reflect the changing needs of the recruitment marketplace. Fully mobile responsive and with intuitive search options, our site is designed to make job-hunting faster and easier for our users and deliver our recruiters more applications. With a CV Builder tool, the opportunity to save searches and set up job alerts and a Recommended Jobs section our jobs platform connects to talent others can’t reach.
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Our sponsors
Danske Bank is one of the largest banks in Northern Ireland, with around 1,400 employees, a network of branches and three regional business centres across Northern Ireland. It is an autonomous subsidiary of the Danske Bank Group and benefits from the strength and technology of its strong international parent, combined with local presence, local decision-making and local expertise.
Grant Thornton’s People & Change Consulting Practice has one of the largest teams of HR and Change Consultants in Ireland, with experts in Leadership, Learning & Development, Change Management, HR and Talent Solutions to help clients address their people agenda. People & Change Consulting are delighted to be a sponsor at this year’s CIPD Awards because we see first ‐ hand the value for organisations that invest in the development of their people. Grant Thornton is the fastest growing professional services firm in Ireland, and their specialist teams work with firms from all sectors and grow the local economy. Grant Thornton has offices in Belfast, Dublin, and across Ireland, and they are committed to helping local clients solve global challenges, and develop their people to grow their organisations. Hunter Savage is a leading niche recruitment consultancy specialising in Human Resources, Legal, Accountancy & Finance, IT, Engineering, Business Support & Marketing and Practice & Tax. Our company was established in 2010 and we have successful offices in both Belfast and Dublin. Our focus is to provide high quality consultative recruitment services to clients and candidates. Our HR division is managed by Stephanie Mulholland. Stephanie is Northern Ireland’s most experienced HR recruitment specialist with over 16 years’ experience. HR is a close knit and extremely well connected sector and Stephanie has a very successful track record in placing candidates at all levels within the HR sector.
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Our sponsors
Inspire Workplaces is part of the Inspire group – an all-island charity and award-winning social enterprise working together with people living with mental ill health, intellectual disability, autism and addictions across Ireland. Via our market-leading therapeutic and wellbeing services, we deliver evidence-based, best practice workplace wellbeing solutions that encompass a complete framework of prevention, intervention and training. With a network of highly skilled counsellors, consultants and support team, we currently provide timely support to over 800,000 employees in some of the UK and Ireland’s leading private public and third sector organisations. Through Inspire Students, we work in partnership with colleges and universities to provide counselling and wellbeing support services to students across Northern Ireland. Kennedys is a global law firm with 66 offices across 24 countries, including highly regarded practices in Belfast and Dublin. Kennedys specialist employment law team has considerable experience in dealing with the full range of employment-related litigation, as well as day to day HR issues and strategy. Our expertise includes dealing with employment and industrial disputes including defending employment tribunal and civil court claims brought against employers and pursuing injunction proceedings to prevent unlawful industrial action or unfair competition from former employees. The team is well versed in assisting clients with day-to-day HR issues and workforce strategy, such as discipline and grievance matters, advising upon redundancies, reorganisations and TUPE as well as drafting contracts, policies and procedures.
We guide our clients in a straightforward, clear and pragmatic way, working in partnership to ensure they follow correct procedures and minimise the risk of disputes.
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Our sponsors
Queen’s Management School, based at Riddel Hall in Belfast, is one of the top business schools in the UK and Ireland and prides itself on offering a world-class range of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in Accounting, Economics, Finance and Management, one of which is the CIPD accredited MSc HRM programme. A globally renowned centre of education and research, it enjoys close links with the business community, a dedicated placement office and a financial trading room. In 2016 Queen’s Management School merged with The William J Clinton Leadership Institute. The Leadership Institute brings leading academics and industry experts together to deliver a portfolio of executive education and leadership programmes.
TLT is a growing and forward thinking commercial law firm, committed to client service. We have a presence across all jurisdictions of the UK, with offices in Belfast, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Manchester. TLT’s team of employment law specialists provide commercial and practical legal advice in response to complex employment law issues. We are experts in Industrial Tribunal and Fair Employment Tribunal litigation, and have extensive experience in defending cases on the full range of employment issues including unfair dismissal, discrimination and whistleblowing. We regularly advise clients on day to day employment issues including performance and absence management, disciplinary and grievance processes, holiday pay and other working time queries, as well as on legal duties under the equality legislation, including workforce monitoring requirements and fair employment practices. In addition, our dual qualified team often provide training to clients with operations in both Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the key differences in employment law, practice and procedure between the jurisdictions.
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Our sponsors
Tughans Solicitors have evolved over the past 125 years into one of the largest commercial law firms in Northern Ireland. An award-winning firm, our lawyers are recognised as market leaders across many sectors of the law. Today we advise some of Northern Ireland’s largest and longest established businesses and some of its most promising emerging companies, both locally and internationally. Our progressive approach has a depth and dimension that goes beyond simply giving the right advice. What we offer is not legal advice in isolation, but a more enriched point of view, encompassing every factor that could influence your success.
Worthingtons Solicitors are a leading firm of Commercial Solicitors with one of the largest employment law practices in Belfast. We consistently seek to deliver fast, practical and straight talking employment advice which not only meets but exceeds our client’s expectations. We have considerable experience of providing Solicitor led practical guidance in relation to internal procedures, “behind the scenes” advice and assistance in relation to employment disputes and ultimately Tribunal and Court representation to our clients in relation to all aspects of employment law. We further provide due diligence services and legal advice in relation to mergers and acquisitions and all matters relating to the employment relationship. Worthingtons are honoured to sponsor the 'Excellence in HR Leadership' award and to support those who create a positive impact through their leadership style and willingness to help others. Through our extensive experience we recognise the crucial contribution that HR professionals make on an operational and strategic level to the smooth running of a business which is key to success. Our tailored and specialised service works in tandem with HR professionals to ensure a solution based approach.
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About the CIPD in Northern Ireland
With more than 3,900 members across Northern Ireland, the CIPD in Northern Ireland works closely with our network of members, volunteers and stakeholders to develop the profession, build our policy relevance and reach, and to establish the voice of CIPD in Northern Ireland supported by our volunteers. It's a great time to be a CIPD member in Northern Ireland with a wide array of events and campaigns delivered by both our staff team and our committed volunteers, designed to raise the profile of the HR profession and the CIPD in Northern Ireland. This includes:
The CIPD Northern Ireland Annual Conference
Our 2022 conference will take place in Belfast on 12 May. Look out for details early in 2022.
CIPD networks in Northern Ireland
Our specialist networks allow you the opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals from across Northern Ireland.
> CIPD Northern Ireland OD Network > CIPD Northern Ireland Independent Consultant Network > CIPD Northern Ireland Policy Forum > CIPD Northern Ireland HR Leader Network
CIPD Northern Ireland Policy Forum
With so many CIPD members across Northern Ireland, from companies of all sizes across all sectors, we sit on a treasure trove of experience and expertise that we can use to influence public policy. From responding to government consultations to parliamentary lobbying, to holding roundtables with senior political and policy stakeholders, we want to put the CIPD’s vision of better work and working lives at the heart of Northern Ireland's HR, business and policy conversations.
Email northernireland@cipd.co.uk to join the Policy Forum or any of our networks.
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The CIPD Northern Ireland branch The CIPD NI branch organise a programme of free CPD events, delivered by a small team of committed volunteers. For 2021/22 the branch is chaired by Beth McMaw Considine, with Nicola Barber as vice chair.
Visit our website for the latest branch events. Upcoming events include:
> 27 October: CIPD NI branch People Hub - the war on talent > 17 November: The future of work post-COVID series - wellbeing > 22 March: Technology in work
Northern Ireland branch member to member mentoring scheme
In addition to a programme of regular events, the branch runs a very successful mentoring scheme, which links like-minded HR and L&D professionals, benefitting both mentors and mentees.
The scheme supports mentees to develop themselves, develop strengths and competencies, gain knowledge and experience, meet work challenges and lots more.
As well as developing their mentoring skills, our mentors report that they benefit from nurturing and enabling their mentee to develop, as well as improving their own supervisory or communication skills, and expanding their networks.
Contact Jane Hamilton, Mentoring Engagement Lead if you would be interested in joining the next cohort of the scheme. Email jane.hamilton@cipdbranch.co.uk.
Sign up for the CIPD NI monthly newsletter to keep in touch with the latest news, events and opportunities to connect with us in Northern Ireland. Sign up at cipd/co.uk/northernireland.
We're also very active on social media. Follow us on our social channels.
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