Healthcare scientists (HCS)

Healthcare scientists are a hugely diverse scientific workforce, improving both the health and wellbeing of our patients.

They represent 5% of the NHS workforce and specialities underpin 80% of all diagnoses.

Healthcare Science at UHDB falls into three broad and overlapping areas. However, healthcare scientists work in several fields beyond these, and their work is crucial in both delivering patient care, and developing innovative tests and treatments for the future.

Why choose a career in healthcare science at UHDB?

You may be at the start of your career, or at some point further along that career journey, but in all cases our aspiration is to ensure that you have a supported journey from preceptorship to advanced practice, with a wide range of exciting and interesting career opportunities along the way.

We provide practice-placement opportunities for undergraduates, and we support both apprenticeships and ‘return to practice’ placement opportunities. We also provide the opportunity for direct entry to professions at Masters level.

In all of this we are supported by our Practice Learning Support Unit, which houses our educators in collaboration with the local universities.

As a group of professions, we have recently worked to produce a five year AHP and HCS clinical strategy, which outlines not only how we make a difference, but also how we work in different ways across our professional groups to deliver excellence in clinical care.