Maddy Wiggs, Deadly Start Trainee and Student of the Year prize winner.
Congratulations to Caboolture Hospital Deadly Start Trainee Maddy Wiggs who won the Queensland Training Awards 2021 North Coast region award for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student of the Year recently.
This means Maddy is now in the running for the state-wide award to be announced in the near future. If successful there, next step is the national awards in Perth in November.
Maddy has finished her traineeship, completing a Certificate 3 in Allied Health Assistance, but will continue to work with us as a Clinical Assistant (Allied Health Assistant) until the end of the year and offered a place to start studying Physiotherapy at university next year.
This is a fantastic outcome for Maddy and demonstrates Metro North Health’s commitment and dedication to Closing the Gap by providing meaningful and strategic workforce development initiatives to increase representation in health by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Maddy said completing the practical component in physiotherapy at Caboolture Hospital confirmed it was a career that she wanted to follow.
“Working with stroke/rehab patients is what I enjoy most as I like being able to see the changes that I can make to improve someone’s quality of living,” Maddy said.
“It is an honour to have won the regional award and is an amazing acknowledgement of the hard work that has been put into this course.
“I appreciate the incredible support that has been given to me by my trainers and mentors throughout this course.
“It’s an amazing opportunity to have been selected. Both mum, dad and my family are over the moon about this opportunity and are incredibly proud of me.
“I think that this traineeship can open up so many pathways for many young individuals, through this traineeship I’ve received opportunities that I never thought I would, such as getting an early offer into university at ACU into bachelor of physiotherapy, commencing in 2022.
“Along with this opportunity, the awards are also something that I never even knew of. I think the main thing that I would say to younger students would be to just give it a go.”