Allied Health Excellence Awards
The awards recognise the contributions of allied health professionals, assistants and teams to our community.
Allied Health awards for excellence 2024
Nominations for the 2024 Allied Health Excellence Awards are closed.
Award categories
The categories are:
- Allied Health Assistant Excellence - for individuals employed as allied health assistants, dental assistants or peer recovery workers.
- Early Career Excellence - for individuals who started as a new graduate on or after 1 January 2022.
- Practice Excellence - for individuals from different allied health practice areas. This includes clinical, community, technical, and scientific fields.
- Management and Leadership Excellence - for individuals.
- Education Excellence - for individuals and recognises improving skills and knowledge in allied health practice. It promotes professional development and lifelong learning.
- Team Excellence - recognises teams who work together for a common goal.
- Research Excellence - recognises excellence in research or significant quality improvement activities in an individual or team.
- Excellence in Provision of Services to Improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing - for individuals or teams.
- Consumer Recognition - for patients, health consumers or families to nominate allied health professionals, assistants, or teams.
Selection process
Your nomination will be judged by a panel of allied health staff from across the ACT. The panel may include assessors with specific experience.
They will assess your nomination by considering:
- National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards.
- Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights.
- ACT Government public service values that include Respect, Integrity, Collaboration, and Innovation.
You must not include evidence with the nomination. The assessment panel will ask you for further information if they need it.
The selection process is confidential. Any personal information collected is only used for award assessments.
What award winners get
If you are a winner, you will receive $500 for professional development.
Teams should use their award for the team’s professional development.
We will choose the allied health professional of the year from the category winners. They will receive an extra $1500 for professional development. They will be asked to give a short reflection at the next year's Allied Health Awards ceremony.
The individual or team you nominate may be asked to share their stories. The ACT Government may use media for promotion or publication.
We will celebrate nominees and award recipients on International Allied Health Professions Day.
Eligible allied health professions
Eligible allied health professions that can be nominated for an award include:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioner
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander liaison officer
- allied health assistant (includes dental assistant and peer recovery worker)
- analytical scientist (includes forensic chemist, forensic toxicologist, environmental chemist and microbiologist)
- audiologist
- biomedical engineer
- biomedical technician
- cardiac perfusionist
- cardiac scientist
- cardiac sonographer
- Chinese medicine practitioner
- chiropractor
- clinical neurophysiology scientist
- counsellor
- creative art therapist
- dental practitioner (includes dental prosthetist, dental therapist and oral health therapist)
- dental technician
- dietitian
- environmental health scientist
- epidemiologist
- exercise physiologist
- genetic counsellor
- health information officer or manager
- medical laboratory scientist
- medical physicist
- music therapist
- nuclear medicine technologist
- occupational therapist
- optometrist
- orthoptist
- osteopath
- paramedic (ambulance and intensive care)
- pedorthist
- pharmacist
- physiotherapist
- play therapist
- podiatrist
- prosthetist and orthotist
- psychologist
- public health officer
- radiation therapist
- radiographer
- respiratory scientist
- sleep scientist
- social worker
- sonographer
- speech pathologist
Contact us
Email chiefalliedhealthoffice@act.gov.au or call 02 5124 9734 for more information.