Supporting our staff

These include:

• massage
• physiotherapy
• interest-free season ticket loans
• help with childcare
• a wide range of sports and social activities
• help with finding accommodation
• a staff counselling and advice service
• a staff recognition scheme, in the form of a monthly and annual awards ceremony
• Culture Club

We also provide the NHS pension scheme which is still regarded as one of the best in the country.

If you have childcare responsibilities, we subsidise a holiday play-scheme and offer an on-site nursery. We also offer childcare vouchers and employ a child and care co-ordinator to help you find the right childcare solutions for your needs.

We try to be as supportive as possible to staff who have particular needs at different stages in their careers. We recognise the needs of staff who have elderly, disabled or other dependents and offer them understanding, flexibility and support.

We also offer excellent arrangements for staff wanting to take maternity, paternity and adoption leave.

We strongly support staff in finding the right work-life balance, whether they have childcare commitments or for other reasons. The most important factor in deciding if we can support a request for flexible working is whether we can continue to deliver a high quality service to our patients, our families and our staff.

Our staff work a wide range of patterns including annualised hours, term-time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, job shares and, of course, part-time working.

If you would like to talk to us about any of these options before apply to work here, please feel free to contact the Human Resources department on 020 7829 7925.

GOSH is an Armed Forces friendly organisation providing bespoke wellbeing support to members of the Armed Forces community.

We recognise the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans and military families bring to our borough and communities. We will seek to uphold the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, by promoting the fact that we are an armed forces-friendly organisation, by:

• recruitment processes which recognise the skills which Armed Forces veterans and service leavers bring;
• promoting national Armed Forces week/day and Reserves Day through our communication channels;
• running events and programmes in cooperation with Armed Forces career transition organisations (such as Step into Health) which actively support and enable employment opportunities for people form the Armed Forces community;
• use of the Covenant and Employer Recognition scheme (ERS) logos in our communications and marketing, wherever possible.

See the NHS's list of charities and support groups for the armed forces community.

Our patients come from many different backgrounds and we think our hospital can only benefit by having staff who are equally diverse.

Our commitment to workforce diversity means much more than having policies and procedures. We take positive steps to help ensure that everyone who works at GOSH has the same chance to develop and is treated with the same level of respect.

We are genuinely committed to equality of opportunity in employment and encourage applications from all sections of the community.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a member of Business Disability Forum and an accredited Stonewall Diversity Champion.

Moreover, we have four active and executive board supported staff networks. These include the REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage) network, the Pride network, the the ENABLED (Enhancing Abilities and Leveraging Disabilities) network the and Women’s network.

We ask all applicants to tell us about their personal information to help us monitor our processes and ensure that we treat everyone fairly. This information is not seen or used by the shortlisting or selection panel.