Polly Goodman: Healthcare Assistant


Health Care and Medicine/Apprenticeships


Polly works as a Health Care Assistant at Great Ormond Street Hospital.  Find out more about her career here.


Polly kindly answered the following questions in her video below:

  1. What interested you in working in Health care?
  2. What qualifications do you need for your role? Did you do an apprenticeship?
  3. What other skills and traits do you need for this role?
  4. What are your daily duties and responsibilities?
  5. Is it difficult looking after sick children? How do you keep yourself mentally healthy in such a challenging role?
  6. How important is team work in your job? Who else do you work with?
  7. What aspects of your role do you find the most challenging and what bits are the most rewarding?