Great Ormond Street Hospital
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Read about Great Ormond Street Hospital's latest apprenticeship initiatives and how Pearson TQ helped them achieve their objectives:
"In 2022 Great Ormond Street Hospital launched our ‘Above and Beyond’ Strategy and our people strategy that focused on the build of our Amazing new Children's Cancer centre and a key focus on making GOSH an amazing place to work. Key to the objectives was the need to have a clear defined development path for our future leaders to ensure that they embedded our values, led our teams in an effective way and supported the long term goals of the Hospital.
During this time we developed our own management induction and short in-house development program. The Apprenticeship lead was then asked to look for an Apprenticeship provider to deliver Apprenticeship courses that align to our new strategies, values and objectives led by an expert panel from across all parts of the trust. TQ Pearson’s really stuck out from the rest of the offers mainly in the way that they offered to collaborate in design and delivery and implementation of the programs. They have supported with new marketing, engagement sessions, onsite meetings and the design of new internal course pages with regular reviews and clear escalation processes that align to our Apprenticeship Strategy. 2 years later I view TQ as our most valued Apprenticeship partner.
Great Ormond Street Hospital is an acute specialist trust known around the world, our colleagues on the leadership programs come from a mixture of professions all over the workplace. The programs have proven to bring our teams closer together with Pharmacists, Nurses, Allied Health professionals and Non-clinical teams all learning together and from each other. TQ have also supported us by having guest speakers from GOSH on the program to cover key areas like Finance, Our Childrens Cancer centre, Sustainability targets and s ‘speak up policy’ which makes the Leadership programs we have delivered very aligned to ‘live’ events and objectives set by the trust. In difficult times onsite with space and with individuals the team have always been supportive.
TQ have also been supportive with giving recommendations on the internal content on our Leadership pathways and courses.
We now have close to 100 Apprentices across the L3 and L5 programs with TQ our highest at Great Ormond Street, many from the first cohort are now completing with distinctions! We have very low attrition and this is due to the wonderful support provided by the TQ team."
Laurence O'Sullivan-Whiting, Workforce Development Lead, Great Ormond Street Hospital