Staff and residents at Barchester’s Orchard House Care Home in Newport are celebrating because their Managing Director, Natasha Lazovic, has been nominated as a finalist in the Great British Care Awards 2023.
The London final is part of the Great British Care Awards, a series of 9 regional awards celebrating excellence across the care sector. The purpose of the awards is to promote best practice within both the home care and care home sectors, and pay tribute to those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding excellence within their field of work.
The awards ceremony will take place on 18th November at Hilton Bankside. The winner will go forward to the national final next year.
Natasha came to the UK from Serbia in 1994 and commenced her training as a nurse. Extremely caring by nature, she has had an amazing career, and with dedication and determination has progressed from a registered nurse to Managing Director, working in a variety of care settings, both in the NHS and private sector, with London being a main base.
Natasha joined Barchester in 2014 as Regional Director leading 10 homes, which then doubled to 20 as Senior Regional Director, and as Managing Director now oversees more than 80 care homes in the South Division. Handling an extremely challenging role, Natasha leads the teams with a calm can-do attitude, she has an amazingly inspirational story and truly deserves to win.
She has been shortlisted in the prestigious Outstanding Contribution to Social Care category.
Natasha says:
“I am very humbled to be nominated for this award, and I am very proud to be part of the shortlist, and to be representing Barchester as a finalist. It is an honour to be recognised for doing a job I love and I wish to continue to make outstanding contributions going forward, I am hugely passionate about the care sector.”
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Barchester Healthcare’s CEO, Dr Pete Calveley, comments:
“It comes as no surprise to me that Natasha has been shortlisted for this award. I have had the pleasure of knowing and working alongside her for over 18 years, she is an incredible leader who is totally devoted to her teams and her residents. I can think of no one who deserves this award more than she does.”
Don’t think my friend’s mother would be impressed. She spent 6 weeks in hospital with a 4cm bed sore that she acquired whilst in the Orchards ‘care’!
I thought that was Mystic Meg on tour.
freakin LOL