Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant

The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust recognises 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:
  • policy supporting two weeks leave for reservists;
  • 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 logos in our communications and marketing, wherever possible.

About us

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is an international centre of excellence in child healthcare. Together with our research partner, the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, we host the UK’s only paediatric National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).

We’ve discovered what will make the most difference to our patients and staff and have set ourselves six ambitious programmes of work to deliver better, safer and kinder care and save and improve more lives:

• We employ 5000 staff and want GOSH to be an incredible place to work, so we’ll invest more in the wellbeing, education and development of our fantastic staff.
• By putting the patient at the centre of our thinking, we will deliver a Future Hospital programme which will transform outdated pathways and processes.
• We’ll improve and speed up access to urgent care and stay one step ahead by developing virtual technology so care can be accessed both in and out of the hospital.
• We’ll develop the GOSH Learning Academy to help staff learn and thrive as they care for our patients.
• When conducting research into rare and complex conditions, we’ll involve everyone to help speed up the development of new treatments and cures.
• And to help care for children with rare and hard to treat cancers, we’ll build a new Children’s Cancer Centre, a space with state-of-the-art facilities.