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Scottish Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering Training Scheme 2020
Medical Physics (3.5 years)
Applications are invited from candidates with a First or Second Class Honours Degree in Physical Sciences or Engineering for entry to the training scheme for Medical Physicists. The scheme is commissioned by NES.
We aim to employ 5 trainees in total. All trainees will be enrolled on the Medical Physics Training scheme.
The training in Scotland will include rotations and acquaintanceships 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. Current salary scale for these supernumerary trainee posts is ‘AfC’ band 6.
Trainees will each be given a contract of employment, starting at the beginning of September 2020 with one of the Scottish departments. Medical Physics Trainees will register on the Scottish Training Scheme and, in their first year of employment, study for an MSc degree at Aberdeen or Glasgow University. In the subsequent years of employment, trainees will be based in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow or Inverness.
Informal enquiries about the Medical Physics scheme should be made to Prof. David Sutton (dgsutton@nhs.net) or Prof. Bill Nailon (bill.nailon@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk).
Sponsorship will be required for applicants from outside the EEA. We will not be able to get Sponsorship for an applicant if the post can be filled by a UK or EEA resident and therefore are unlikely to consider applicants resident outside the EEA area. Unless they evidence entitlement to work in the UK without restrictions.
Closing date for applications is 10th February 2020. Interviews are currently scheduled for the 1st and 2nd April 2020 and will be held in Dundee.
Please note: only successful candidates will be contacted for interview. If you have not been contacted by 25th March, 2020 you will have been unsuccessful.