Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has a reputation for supporting nurses to further develop their careers from the point of registration in line with the Department of Health Nursing Career Framework.
We pride ourselves on providing our staff with opportunities to both strengthen their current skills and develop new ones.
We want to provide world-class education so that we can be sure that our patients and families are being cared for by nurses whose practice reflects our aims to provide world-class clinical care underpinned by world-class research.
Developing new starters
We have a team of Nurse Practice Educators (PEs) who are based in each of the clinical units and some of our corporate departments.
The PEs work together with our
Educational services team to deliver a bespoke core induction programme for all newly registered nurses starting work at GOSH. This programme runs twice a year in September and March.
The PEs also contribute to the regular monthly corporate induction programme for all other nurses starting work at GOSH and co-ordinate local inductions so that the process is tailor-made to meet the individual needs of each new nurse and each nursing role.
In addition to individual, ward-based posts at Band 5, we offer a rotation programme for newly registered nurses.
Preceptorship and clinical supervision
All newly registered nurses are expected to complete a formal preceptorship programme during their first year. We also encourage all nurses to access regular ongoing clinical supervision. This is especially important when they are moving into a new role. A wide range of our nurses are trained and available to provide clinical supervision to other nurses.
Continuing Personal Professional Development (CPPD)
During your first year of working at GOSH, you will be supported to undertake a range of internal training and development through the
personal development review (PDR) process.
Once you have qualified for at least one year, we will encourage you to gain a Nursing and Midwifery Council recognised mentorship qualification by completing an academic module,
Mentoring and Enabling Learning in the Practice Setting, at
London South Bank University (LSBU). This will enable you to begin to provide mentorship for student nurses and other learners, and act as a preceptor or clinical supervisor for other registered nurses.
As you move between wards and specialties or progress to more senior roles, our PEs work with Ward Sisters and Nurse Managers to co-ordinate a range of educational opportunities to enable you to continue to develop. These include training in core and high dependency children's and young people's nursing care, as well as speciality-related education, often in partnership with
LSBU. You can gain credits towards an academic award at undergraduate, Masters or Doctoral degree level.
Clinical and work-based learning is often multi-disciplinary and supported by our Clinical Nurse Specialists, Nurse Practitioners/Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Consultants, as well as colleagues from across the multi-disciplinary team.
Our
Educational services team also runs management and leadership development programmes and training in improvement methodology and human factors. This training supports our staff in managing, leading and continually transforming our services to reflect the changing needs of our patients and their families.
You can find more information about our internal education and training by accessing our online learning campus (
GOLD - GOSH Online Learning and Development) and reading the
prospectus of educational opportunities for children's nurses at LSBU.
GOSH is committed, through mentorship, to helping student nurses become competent and confident nurses in the care of children and young people. All our student nurses are enrolled at LSBU.
Download the Children's Nursing pre-registration degree programme from LSBU (PDF)
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer placements for students at other universities.
