Career Booklet for NHS Healthcare Science Careers

Work Inspiration and Preparation Provided by NHS Education for Scotland

A career for you in healthcare science!

Ready to discover the rewarding healthcare science careers you can choose in the NHS?

Introduction

Did you know that there are more than 50 different healthcare
science careers? Healthcare scientists work in one of these 4 areas:

physical sciences and clinical engineering
bioinformatics and data science
life sciences
physiological science

Who are healthcare scientists?

The healthcare science workforce is involved in 80% of diagnostic
decisions throughout the patient journey and use science, data, product design, and
engineering to do the following:

Prevent, diagnose, monitor, and treat medical conditions.
Commission and maintain medical equipment.
Provide rehabilitative care to assist in the management of longterm medical conditions.
Design and develop custom medical devices.
Make, adapt, and improve assistive technology.

Discover the many routes to a rewarding career at different levels in
all areas of healthcare science .Check out our new career guide today!

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Offer details

Open resource

10mins

Location

Online

Related industries

Healthcare

Learning

Awareness

Audience

Educators

Parents, carers and guardians

Secondary S1 to S3 (11-14 year old)

Secondary S4 to S6 (14-18 year old)

College

Not in education (16-24 year old)

Available to

Aberdeen City

Aberdeenshire

Angus

Argyll and Bute

Clackmannanshire

Dumfries & Galloway

Dundee City

East Ayrshire

East Dunbartonshire

East Lothian

East Renfrewshire

Edinburgh (City of)

Eilean Siar

Falkirk

Fife

Glasgow

Highland

Inverclyde

Midlothian

Moray

North Ayrshire

North Lanarkshire

Orkney Islands

Perth & Kinross

Renfrewshire

Scottish Borders

Shetland Islands

South Ayrshire

South Lanarkshire

Stirling

West Dunbartonshire

West Lothian