The GHS Clinical Academy
In complex care, the workforce is the product.
The Clinical Academy is how GHS industrialises competence — building, assessing and sustaining the skills that make safe complex care possible.
Vision
To become a centre of excellence for clinical education, competency assurance and workforce development — enabling GHS Healthcare to deliver safe, compassionate, person-centred and clinically governed care across adult and children’s pathways.
Mission
To ensure every GHS staff member is trained, assessed, supervised and supported to deliver care safely and confidently — with clear evidence for CQC, commissioners, families, case managers and strategic partners.
Faculty structure
Seven faculties, phased over 24 months
The Academy is built division by division, beginning with the Complex Care Training Faculty — the capability that most directly assures safety at the highest acuity.
Complex Care Training Faculty
The founding division — high-acuity clinical skills for tracheostomy, ventilation, epilepsy, enteral feeding and more.
Mandatory & Core Skills Faculty
The essential, regulator-aligned training every member of the workforce holds and maintains.
LD, Autism & PBS Faculty
Oliver McGowan-aligned learning-disability and autism training, with Positive Behaviour Support.
Children & Young People’s Faculty
Paediatric-specific competencies for care of children and young people aged 0–18.
Medicines & Delegated Healthcare Faculty
NICE NG67-aligned medicines management and safe delegation of healthcare activities.
Leadership & Quality Faculty
Clinical leadership, supervision, audit and quality-improvement capability.
Commissioner & Partnership Faculty
Building shared assurance capability with commissioners and strategic partners.
The Staff Quality Wheel
Six controls that assure every member of the team
Every person delivering GHS care passes through the same six controls — from values-based recruitment to audit — before and throughout their deployment.
Values-based recruitment
Recruited for the right values before skills.
Enhanced vetting
Enhanced DBS, right-to-work, full history & referencing.
Task-specific training
Trained to each clinical task before deployment.
Observed competency
Assessed in practice and signed off — No Competence, No Deployment.
Clinical supervision
Ongoing registered-professional supervision & support.
Audit & review
Continuous audit feeding the monthly quality dashboard.
Build your career on assured competence