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Scottish Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering Training Scheme 2024
Clinical Engineering (3.5 years)
Applications are invited from candidates with a First- or Second-Class Honours Degree in Physical Sciences or Engineering for entry onto the Scottish Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Training Scheme (SMPCETS). The scheme is commissioned by NES.
We aim to employ a minimum of 1 Clinical Engineering trainee. Trainees will be enrolled onto the Clinical Engineering Training programme and be attached to a nominated NHS Scotland Health Board.
The training in Scotland includes rotations and acquaintanceships in Clinical Engineering, allowing trainees to build a portfolio for registration as a Clinical Scientist with the Health and Care Professions Council. Funding for postgraduate training and course fees will be provided. The current salary scale for these supernumerary trainee posts is ‘AfC’ band 6.
Successful applicants will be given a contract of employment in Clinical Engineering at their nominated NHS Scotland Health Board, commencing at the start of September 2024. They will register on the SMPCETS, and in their first year of employment study for an IPEM accredited MSc degree at Strathclyde University. In subsequent years of employment, trainees will be based at their nominated NHS Scotland Health Board. Successful applicants who already hold a qualifying IPEM accredited MSc will commence their training with hospital-based rotations, and train for 2.5 years.
Informal enquiries about the Clinical Engineering scheme should be made to Dr Claire Tarbert (Claire.tarbert@ggc.scot.nhs.uk).
Applications should be made online by visiting nhsgrampian.org/jobs and searching for the job reference number: CK177621. Details can also be found on www.jobs.scot.nhs.uk.
Closing date for applications is 16th February 2024.
Interviews are currently scheduled for the week commencing 22nd April 2024, and will be held virtually.
Please note - only successful candidates will be contacted for interview. If you have not been contacted by 8th April 2024 you will have been unsuccessful.
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