PGCert Paediatric Enhanced Clinical Practice (Specialism)

Middlesex University

OverviewGreat Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) 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 enhanced 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.CareersOn successful completion of the programme, you will be entitled to the professional title of Enhanced Clinical Practitioner having demonstrated capabilities with the four domains of Enhanced Clinical practice within your specialism.You will be able to practice as an Enhanced Clinical Practitioner within a job role which will have been identified by your employer and as such, you will be the right person, with the right skills, in the right place at the right time (HEE, 2017).