PGCert Paediatric Enhanced Clinical Practice (Specialism)

Overview

Great 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.

Learn more about our programmes below, as well as our modules which can also be taken as standalone CPD modules. You can also learn more about the work of the Great Ormond Street Learning Academy (GLA) on our website.

Why study PGCert Paediatric Enhanced Clinical Practice (Specialism) at Great Ormond Street Hospital Learning Academy?

As an international centre of excellence in paediatric care, this programme utilises the specialist educational expertise of our multidisciplinary team to support you in identifying areas for professional and personal development and for the enhancement of paediatric healthcare practice in your organisation.

The core focus of the programme is the recognition of and building on previously acquired knowledge and skills, combined with workplace learning and supplemented with virtual live and on-demand pre-recorded modules. Key to the programme is the relationship between the trainee, your clinical supervisor and your programme tutors.

You will benefit from our pre-programme consultation and advice which continues throughout the programme. You'll also benefit from our unique personal tutoring system which takes a proactive approach and echoes the values of ‘building success for all’, helping you to reach your potential as an enhanced clinical practitioner.

When will the programme run?

Programme intakes are twice a year in January and September. For more information and module teaching dates, please contact the GOSH Advancing Practice Team: [email protected].

What will you gain?

As an Enhanced Clinical Practitioner, you will demonstrate capabilities with the four domains of Advancing Practice. Successful practitioners will have acquired a range of enhanced level skills which will offer you further career progression and/or progress to MSc 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 enhanced practitioners. You will also build a reputation for yourself, act as a role model and be known as an expert within your professional field.

Fees and funding

UK students¹

The fees below are for the 2024/25 academic year.

¹Part-time students: £64 per credit

For more information and to answer your frequently asked questions, please visit our postgraduate funding page.

*Programme fees are subject to annual inflation so the total costs for part time study are shown here as a guide.

For more information and to answer your frequently asked questions, please visit our postgraduate funding page.

Programme costs

The following course-related costs are included in the fees at Middlesex University:

• A free electronic textbook for every module
• All printing and copying required for your study
• Self-service laptops available for loan for a maximum of 24 hours
• Audio-visual equipment available for loan, including digital stills cameras, digital video recorders, digital audio recorders.

Fees disclaimers

1. UK fees: The university reserves the right to increase undergraduate tuition fees in line with changes to legislation, regulation and any government guidance or decisions. The tuition fees for part-time UK study are subject to annual review and we reserve the right to increase the fees each academic year by no more than the level of inflation.

We’ll carefully manage any future changes to courses, or the support and other services available to you, if these are necessary because of things like changes to government health and safety advice, or any changes to the law.

Any decisions will be taken in line with both external advice and the University’s Regulations which include information on this.

Our priority will always be to maintain academic standards and quality so that your learning outcomes are not affected by any adjustments that we may have to make.

At all times we’ll aim to keep you well informed of how we may need to respond to changing circumstances, and about support that we’ll provide to you.