Allied Health Professional Education

We support your entire career through creation of positive learning environments, encouraging personal development, and providing professional advice and guidance to staff. Here are just a few examples of how we can support your career and development at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

We have provided more than 1800 weeks of undergraduate placements in the last year and to support opportunities for leadership development the AHP Education team has provided alternative placements focusing on leadership, where undergraduates were supported to lead on a project such as creation of a simulation guide, including resources developed and hosted on the Digital Education Network (DEN).

A successful hybrid clinical simulation and clinical placement for dietetic students was facilitated by our Practice Educators and we run monthly run student forums to allow AHP students to connect across the different professions. Students have benefited from guest speakers from within the Trust, with topics such as speak up for safety, sustainability, research and how to prepare for an interview.

We have delivered 3 student supervision courses this year, which focus on developing the knowledge and skills of educators in promoting learning of students in any environment.

The team has run 3 workplace supervision courses which include an introduction to clinical supervision, the various models adopted and how to ensure supervision is effective for both the supervisor and supervisee.

We have our own bespoke Band 6 AHP Development Programme which was developed and launched in September 2022. The programme has been instrumental in improving job satisfaction, wellbeing, and retention of staff. The priority is excellence in education and aims provide learning in the 4 pillars of practice. The training uses interactive and practical elements to ensure learning can be taken back and implemented into the workplace (Overall average feedback 4.3/5).

In 2022 we were successful in obtaining funding from Health Education England to implement the AHP Support Worker competency, education, and career development framework which supports the delivery of clear and consistent access to high-quality learning and career progression for support workers. Through a training needs analysis, we identified and provided recommendations on resources that would support training and development, and access to clearer career progression. Resources were show cased at the first AHP support worker event hosted by us.