GOSH apprenticeships

At GOSH we use Apprenticeships in two different ways:

1. To recruit new local talent into our workforce in any role.
2. To develop our current workforce to progress, learn new skills and make impact, change career pathways and stay at GOSH or move upwards in your career. The benefits are huge.

Our New Career Pathways from entry to degree level are now in place in science, nursing, allied health positions like physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dietetics, and non clinical pathways in data, leadership and management, change management. Plus have many more exciting plans in place for 2025.

• Apprenticeships are fully funded nationally recognised qualifications.
• Apprenticeship courses are delivered on the job, meaning you learn while being paid.
• An apprentice has endless support at GOSH through tutors, workplace mentors and managers.
• An apprentice gets the opportunity to learn each week on the job for 20% active learning’ of their working hours, through various activities including shadowing, online, face to face, putting skills into practice.
• A recruited apprentice can earn a full-time substantive post at GOSH.
• As an apprentice you are officially a student and can get a student Oyster and discount card.
• An apprentice will always bring new skills, knowledge and behaviours into a team and many have made significant impact with patients, families, cost saving ideas, innovation.

Shevy is a Nursing Degree Apprentice at GOSH. She shares her typical day at our hospital.

Since 2020, we've achieved six awards for our apprenticeship programmes.

2020

• At the BAME Apprenticeship Awards, we were recognised as the Large Employer of the Year.
• Amber James (from the video above) achieved the Apprentice Special Recognition Award at the 2020 National Apprenticeship Awards.

2021

• At the BAME Apprenticeship Awards, we achieved finalist for the Health and Social Care Employer award, as well as the Large Employer.
• What's more, GOSH apprentices, Ricardo and Zahra, were named finalists. Zahra achieved the Highly Commended Apprentice award.
• At the National Apprenticeship Awards, we were named the Winner of London Regional Large Employer award and achieved Highly Commended for the Recruitment Excellence award.
• We also achieved the National Finalist Large Employer and Winner of Highly Commended Large Employer, up against large employers like Coca Cola, Amazon and the Army.

2022

• We were finalists for the AAC Apprenticeship Diversity Award and Large Employer of Year Award.
• We won the National Apprenticeship Diversity award 2022.

2023

• Our team has been nominated for an employer ‘Wider participation award’. The winner will be announced in February.

Hear from Alice, a Nursing Apprenticeships Educator, about how we support our apprentices at GOSH.

Hear from Clare, a Clinical Educator at GOSH. There are Clinical Educators in all departments for apprentices to learn from.

Farzin Mooza, a GOSH Healthcare Support Worker Apprentice

Farzin is a Healthcare Support Worker Apprentice at GOSH, who once qualified, wishes to progress to the Nursing Degree Apprentice course.

"I'm definitely doing a Nursing Apprenticeship at GOSH next, I know that for a fact."

Amber James, a Register Nursing Degree Apprentice at GOSH

Like Farzin, Amber started with at GOSH as a Healthcare Support Worker apprentice.

Amber has now completed that apprenticeship and progressed to the Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeship, meaning she can fulfil her dream of becoming a nurse at GOSH.

We recruit into over ten apprenticeship entry positions at GOSH and this will continue to grow.

• Find out more about National Apprenticeship Scheme.
• Find out about the variety of NHS apprenticeships available.

If you're a GOSH member of staff, visit GOSH Gold to find out more.