Employee of the Year

Jill Smith, of WS Training won Employee of the Year, sponsored by West Suffolk College

Transcript

00:00 I'm joined by Jill Smith from WS Training, winner of the West Suffolk College Employee

00:07 of the Year award. It hasn't quite sunk in yet Jill.

00:11 Not quite, no it hasn't, but I'm very overjoyed, thank you.

00:15 Well congratulations, and how proud a moment is this for you tonight?

00:20 Very proud, I'm very emotional because the job I did was really dear to my heart and

00:25 all my students that I've dealt with, with high needs, gave me so much, as much to me

00:31 as I ever gave to them. They taught me so much.

00:34 Tell us more about WS Training and about the job that you do.

00:38 WS Training is based in Ipswich, it's a supported learning centre with such a variety of very

00:44 high needs children, and I dealt a lot of one to one placements. I was out at a forest

00:50 school with one particular young lady who for three years I just changed her life I

00:56 think, and it's such a rewarding thing to do. It's not big steps, it's little steps,

01:04 but those little steps mean everything, they really do, and yeah it's an absolute honour

01:11 to have done the job I've done.

01:12 Does this award feel as much for them as it is for you?

01:17 Definitely, it's probably more for them because without them then what I do, it hasn't

01:24 got the meaning, you know. You just see them on a journey and you try and join their journey

01:30 and hopefully we move them on then to a different learning setting because they don't stay

01:35 with us only for a certain amount of time, but when you hand them on you just give them

01:40 on to another part of their life really, another part of their journey.

01:44 Well done to you, not just for the award but for what you're doing, sounds great, well

01:48 done, congratulations.

01:49 Thank you very much, thank you.

01:50 (laughs)

01:52 (upbeat music)