Why choose Advanced Clinical Practice (Paediatrics and Child Health) MSc at Great Ormond Street HospitalGreat 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.Course highlightsTeaching 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 tutorClinical supervisor preparation and ongoing supportWhat will you gainOn successful completion of the Advanced Clinical Practice (Paediatrics and Child Health) MSc programme, you will be entitled to the professional title of Advanced Clinical Practitioner having successfully demonstrated capabilities with the four domains of Advanced Clinical Practice. Successful practitioners will have acquired a range of advanced level skills which will offer you further career progression andor progress to doctoral level studies. You will have developed skills required to share your advanced knowledge and expertise across the local, national and international arena and to act as supervisors of other advanced practitioners. You will also build a professional reputation for yourself, act as a role model and be known as an expert within your field.
