Caring for Children and Young People in the Recovery Room
2025-26 Year of entry
Delivered by Great Ormond Street Hospital Learning Academy, the aim of this 15-credit module is to build on the recovery practitioner’s knowledge and critical reasoning skills of the child and young person’s post-operative care.
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Course Overview
This module will ensure that practitioners enhance their practice, based on current evidence-based care. By undertaking this module, practitioners will create a safer environment for children, young people and their families and have a positive impact on their recovery journey.
This module can be taken as standalone Continuing Professional Development (CPD), or as part of a Master’s of Science (MSc), Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip), Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) or Graduate Certificate (GradCert) in Paediatrics & Child Healthcare Practice. See our MSc Paediatrics & Child Healthcare Practice page for more information about these programmes.
Learners considering a programme will need to attend a pre-entry meeting with the programme leader to review the requirements and expectations of the programme. To set up a programme planning meeting, please contact the Academic Programmes Team at the GOSH Learning Academy: academic.programmes@gosh.nhs.uk.
Teaching
Active learning will allow practitioners to learn via collaboration, cooperation, and peer-based learning. Activities may include interactive lectures, clinical skills demonstration and supervised practice, small group activities, case-based discussions, workshops, practice simulations and tutorials.
Synchronous and asynchronous learning and teaching activities are delivered via a combination of study days and digital strategies at local sites or online using the Virtual Learning Environment (MyLearning).
Clinical skills development and simulation are delivered in fully equipped, state of the art skills labs using a range of low and high-fidelity learning modalities.
Assessment
The formative assessment will take the form of reflective accounts and group feedback.
The summative assessment will require learners to complete an oral presentation of a clinical case study.
Teaching dates
| Type | Date | Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching Day 1 | 17/02/2026 | Virtual |
| Teaching Day 2 | 24/02/2026 | Virtual |
| Teaching Day 3 | 03/03/2026 | Virtual |
| Teaching Day 4 | 17/03/2026 | Face-to-Face |
| Teaching Day 5 | 14/04/2026 | Virtual |
| Teaching Day 6 | 21/04/2026 | Virtual |
| Assessment Day 1 | 26/05/2026 | Virtual |
Teaching will take place over a whole day. Face-to-Face teaching will take place either on or around the Great Ormond Street Hospital campus or at the Middlesex University West Stand at StoneX stadium. Exact locations for teaching days will be advised closer to the start date.
To undertake this module, you must hold a current healthcare-specific professional registration and be working with children and young people within the recovery unit.
How to apply
Applications will close four weeks before the module start date. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that they have arranged the necessary study leave to attend the module. It is highly recommended that candidates submit their application as early as possible.
It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that they have arranged the necessary study leave to attend the programme.
Sponsorship
Candidates whose fees are being paid by their organisation will need to obtain a purchase order from their organisation for their fees and upload this as part of their application. You will not be able to save your application form once you begin, so please have the purchase order ready.
If you are unable to obtain a purchase order prior to the application deadline, candidates can upload a sponsor letter. You may wish to use the Sponsor Letter template.
Information for Sponsor Organisations
When raising a purchase order for module fees, the supplier is Middlesex University. If Middlesex University is not set up as a supplier on your procurement system, then contact CPDFinance@mdx.ac.uk to obtain the required information for set-up.
If you have any questions about the module, please contact academic.programmes@gosh.nhs.uk.
Fees and funding
The fees below refer to the 2025/26 academic year unless otherwise stated.
Part-time learners: £67 per credit*
*Course fees are subject to annual inflation so the total costs for part time study are shown here as a guide.
Learners who withdraw on or after the start date of the module will be liable for the full tuition fees.
If you have any questions about the module, please contact academic.programmes@gosh.nhs.uk.