Great British Care Awards 2025 - East Midlands Regional Finals - The Care Newcomer Award Winner - Premier Community - North Derbyshire

Recipient: Premier Community - North Derbyshire

Date: Thursday 27 Nov 2025

From her very first week in our Chesterfield team, Community Care Assistant Megan Morris showed the qualities of someone born to work in care, she brought a spark of positivity, energy, and warmth that instantly lifted the spirits of everyone around her.

In a short time she has transformed the experience of countless service users; supported new carers with kindness and clarity; uplifted her colleagues with her positivity;
shown natural skill, empathy, and dedication in every shift and has become a core part of the Chesterfield community.

Megan recently shared a powerful story that speaks volumes about her empathy and professionalism. Whilst working one evening, she visited a service user and provided their care. She then visited the next morning to discover that they had passed peacefully overnight.

Megan had built a strong bond with the family, staying in close contact, bringing comfort, and ensuring the person’s final days were filled with dignity and joy. On that final evening, the person receiving our services spoke lovingly about her daughters and granddaughter. Megan made sure to share that conversation with the family afterwards.

Her compassion moved the family so deeply that Megan was personally invited to the funeral and wake, where she was seated among family members. She says it was one of the most meaningful moments of her career, and one she will never forget.

This is who Megan is: gentle, kind, respectful, and deeply human in her approach to care.

Megan told us she felt “shocked and in disbelief” when she found out she’d been nominated. She genuinely never thought she’d be noticed for her work. But everyone around her felt the opposite. Friends, family, colleagues, and service users have all said the same thing:

Megan deserves this recognition because she is an exceptional carer.