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Maeve Hoey, a registered nurse degree apprentice at the Trust, has scooped the Health, Care and Public Services Apprentice of the Year award at the Cornwall Apprenticeship Awards.

The award ceremony, held at Truro and Penwith College on Friday 18 November, saw apprentices from across Cornwall’s business community celebrated at a glamorous black-tie gala dinner with the awards presented by Holly Day and Neil Caddy from Pirate FM.

Maeve became the first apprentice at her university to become a student representative and was nominated for Rep of the Year. This led to her becoming an Apprenticeship Advocate for Health Education England and part of the National Apprentice Week Build the Future campaign, where she spoke about how lucky she is to study her nursing degree as an apprentice.

“Maeve is such a deserving winner of this award, and I was really pleased to be able to nominate her for this category. She has been a real advocate for apprenticeships, within the Trust, the University and with her advocacy work for Health Education England.” Becky McSorley, the Trust's Lead Practice Educator who nominated Maeve for the award.

The Trust was also announced as highly commended in the Apprentice Employer of the Year (large employer) category.

“Even just to have the recognition from Becky alone was great, let alone be nominated and win the award. I was quite emotional on the night. In general, I feel like I’ve been through a massive personal and professional development to get to this point in my career, so to have my mum there with me, all excited and jumping up and down as my name was read out was lovely. Especially as she was the one who encouraged me to apply a couple of years ago.” Maeve Hoey

The awards are open to all apprentices and apprenticeship employers across Cornwall and cover a range of professional categories including construction, engineering, management, marketing, healthcare, and business.