Advanced Clinical Practice (Paediatrics and Child Health)

Entry requirements

Professional:

• Honours degree achieving 2:2 classification or above in a healthcare related subject.

• Current registration as a healthcare professional with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).

• A minimum of 3-years full time experience (or equivalent) in the relevant area of practice.

Months of entry

September

Course content

Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital (GOSH) is committed to supporting the ambition and career development of healthcare practitioners across the UK, and in collaboration with Middlesex University, providing a range of opportunities for continuing education and career development as a graduate or postgraduate learner.

Great Ormond Street Hospital Learning Academy provides outstanding paediatric healthcare, education, training, and development that drives improvements in paediatric care across the world.

GOSH is an acute specialist paediatric hospital with a mission to provide world-class care to children and young people with rare, complex, and difficult-to-treat conditions, giving our learners exposure to specialist cases that are hard to find anywhere else in the world. Children deserve the best. Which is why education has always underpinned everything we do.

The aim of the GOSH Learning Academy (GLA) is to ensure all healthcare professionals, receive continual support, education, and specialist training to enhance their skills at every stage of their career in the field of Paediatric healthcare.

Our programme aims to support your development of the skills and knowledge required for enhanced-level practice. The combination of an individually tailored pathway and a strong emphasis on work-based learning will allow you to demonstrate the academic qualification, competence, and capabilities in your chosen field of expertise. Due to the multi-professional, personalised and adaptable nature of the programme, it is appropriate for healthcare professionals from a wide and diverse range of paediatric and child health professions and settings. By completing the programme and transforming your role, you will work at an advanced level of clinical practice, with direct patient care to manage a discrete aspect of a patient’s care within a definer area of practice. This can support you in delivery of high quality, safe, effective patient care and to initiate and implement innovative, person-centred improvements for patient and service outcomes.

Why study MSc Advanced Clinical Practice at Great Ormond Street Hospital Learning Academy?

As an international centre of excellence in paediatric care, this programme utilises the specialist educational expertise of our multidisciplinary team to support you in identifying areas for professional and personal development and for the enhancement of paediatric healthcare practice in your organisation.

The core focus of the programme is the recognition of and building on previously acquired knowledge and skills, combined with workplace learning and supplemented with virtual live and on-demand pre-recorded modules. Key to the programme is the relationship between the trainee, your clinical supervisor and your programme tutors.

You will benefit from our pre-programme consultation and advice which continues throughout the programme. You'll also benefit from our unique personal tutoring system which takes a proactive approach and echoes the values of ‘building success for all’, helping you to reach your potential as a qualified advanced clinical practitioner.

Course highlights

• Teaching is delivered by expert staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, an international centre of excellence in paediatric care. The Great Ormond Street Hospital Learning Academy aims to provide world-class, multi-professional paediatric healthcare, education, training and development.
• Individualised study pathway tailored to your current and future needs, supported by a pre-programme consultation with GOSH Learning Academy expert staff.
• Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) wherever that takes place.
• Focus on workplace learning.
• Tripartite reviews: clinical supervisor, practitioner, university tutor
• Clinical supervisor preparation and ongoing support