Personal Achiever of the Year Award
(19-24)

Amy works as an apprentice at CLS Care Services where her key duties are to assist elderly residents with all aspects of daily living. Her responsibilities are focussed around ensuring their needs and wishes are met as far as possible, and endeavouring to assist residents to remain as independent as they can, for as long as they can. She is working towards becoming a senior carer and is dedicated to training towards that job role.

Amy has had to overcome a difficult background to get where she is today. Having been in care from the age of ten, and with no-one to act as role model, she spent only a year at school – leaving with no qualifications.

Amy has worked hard to overcome this, completing her NVQ in Care in just seven months, and after failing Key Skills at Level One initially, achieved Application of Number Communication at Level One the week afterwards.

Total People, Amy’s learning provider, named her ‘Apprentice of the Year 2005’ in their internal awards, and she subsequently appeared on their promotional leaflets and advertisements. This has given her a huge confidence boost, having never won anything in her life prior to this.

Eventually Amy wants to train as a nurse, and feels that being an apprentice is helping to provide crucial steps along that path, as well as helping with her own personal development. She says: “Overall I feel like a different person through learning and achieving” and now believes in herself as she has “gained experience, qualifications and lots of enthusiasm.”