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Speciality Training

The specialty training education team at the GOSH Learning Academy delivers a portfolio of training across multiple workstreams. The aim of the specialty training education team is to raise the profile of these areas of practice, improving the knowledge skills and aptitude of healthcare professionals.

We provide a holistic approach to learning and development, equipping healthcare professionals with transferrable skills to deliver safe, evidence based patient care.

Our educators work collaboratively to deliver specific training across the different workstreams, for example safeguarding and learning disabilities deliver Safeguarding for Non-Verbal Children training.

Learning Disabilities and Autism Education

The Learning Disabilities and Autism education team offer bespoke training on topics such as behaviours of concern, reasonable adjustments, eating challenges, autism awareness, and simulation-based teaching on learning disabilities.

In addition to tailored training, we also provide quarterly webinars on a range of topics. These sessions are delivered by experts in the field of Learning disabilities and Autism and aim to provide up-to-date, evidence-based knowledge that staff can apply in their practice. The goal is to equip staff with the understanding and skills needed to care for children and young people with a learning disability and/or autism, and to support their families and carers.

Upcoming webinar: Anxiety in Children with Moderate to Severe Learning Disabilities

For more information or to discuss training offers tailored to your needs, please email LDMH.Education@gosh.nhs.uk.

Infection Prevention and Control Education

Infection prevention and control (IPC) education is Trust wide and offers a range of education and training to all staff. This includes both bespoke departmental education and statutory & mandatory education. In addition, we run our academic module once a year.

IPC education covers topics such as sepsis, patient sampling, basic microbiology and virology, vascular access, response to outbreaks, decontamination, antimicrobial stewardship, having difficult conversations, high consequence infectious diseases personal protective equipment training and much more.

For any further information, please contact Kate.Harkus@gosh.nhs.uk

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Me First Communication

Me First is an award-winning education and interactive, online training resource, that helps health and social care professionals develop their knowledge, skills and confidence in communicating with children and young people and supports shared decision making.

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For more information or to discuss training offers tailored to your needs, please contact us at info@mefirst.org.uk.

Mental Health Education

The Mental Health education team offer courses and bespoke training on topics such as anxiety, clinical holding and an introduction to children's mental health.

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For more information or to discuss training offers tailored to your needs, please contact us at LDMH.education@gosh.nhs.uk.

Palliative Care Education

The Palliative Care education team offer courses and bespoke training on topics such as symptom management, communication, advanced care planning, end of life care, ethics and decision making and after death care.

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For more information or to discuss training offers tailored to your needs, please contact us at palliativecare.education@gosh.nhs.uk.

Safeguarding Education

The Safeguarding education team offer courses and bespoke training on topics such as safeguarding legal orders, parental conflict, making a local authority referral, professional curiosity, having a difficult conversation and child safeguarding practice reviews.

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For more information or to discuss training offers tailored to your needs, please contact us at safeguarding.education@gosh.nhs.uk.

Sustainability

Sustainability education at GOSH provides a comprehensive range of learning opportunities to support staff in delivering environmentally responsible healthcare. This includes bespoke training, tailored to the needs of specific teams and services, covering themes such as sustainable clinical practice, carbon awareness, waste reduction, and greener decision‑making across the hospital.

We also host an expanding library of recorded webinars, giving staff access to expert-led content on a wide range of sustainability topics at a time that suits them.

For internal staff looking to deepen their knowledge we further support professional development, offering a GOSH Gold Sustainability Training Pathway, which includes Essential, Intermediate, and Advanced levels as well as topics such as Air Pollution. These structured learning packages help staff build confidence and competence in applying sustainability principles to their everyday practice. For those looking to deepen their knowledge, we provide the GOSH Goes Green Competition, designed to introduce staff to sustainable quality improvement and coaching them through the scoping and piloting of a project over a 12-week period.

In addition, our GOSH Goes Green podcast series shares conversations, insights, and real-life examples from staff across the organisation who are working to create a greener, more sustainable hospital. The podcast offers an accessible way to learn, reflect, and stay inspired about sustainability in healthcare.

GOSH Goes Green Podcast

For more information or to discuss tailored education support for your team, please contact sustainability@gosh.nhs.uk.