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Audiology – Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Audiology – Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Our service has full UKAS accreditation under the IQIPS programme (version 2) for the full scope of adult and paediatric services. Our department offers a full range of district-level Audiological services, and our service delivery model is audiologist-led and delivered. The multidisciplinary team is friendly, forward thinking and experienced with an excellent level of skill mix from expanded scope activities. We are also an accredited student training centre. Candidates will be passionate, focused on ensuring strong evidence-based decision making; and be able to demonstrate excellent team working. Posts are based at Kingston Hospital although travel to other clinical sites within the area may be expected.
Audiology – London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Cancer Genomics – Synnovis
The training will be delivered by the South East Genomic Laboratories Hub (SEGLH). The trainee will be primarily based at Guy’s Hospital but will have the opportunity to visit King’s College Hospital for certain aspects of their training.
Cancer Genomics – The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Cardiac Science – Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Cardiac Science – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Our Trust
With over 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. Our main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region. As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
A number of our services are members of established clinical networks which bring together doctors, nurses and other clinicians from a range of healthcare providers working to improve the quality of services for patients. These include the South London Cardiac and Stroke Network and the South West London and Surrey Trauma Network, for which St George’s Hospital is the designated heart attack centre, hyper-acute stroke unit and major trauma centre.
The Cardiac Physiology Department
Within Cardiac Physiology at the St Georges, there is a team of approximately 60 cardiac physiologists will help you through your development and understanding of cardiac physiology and disease processes. We cover all diagnostic and intervention cardiac procedures, no matter how simple or complex, we perform the following: ECG and Holter monitoring and analysis; Exercise tolerance testing, including CPET; Cardiac catherisation, including PPCI; Cardiac Device implants and follow up; Echo, including TTE, TOE, Stress and Valve clinic.
Education is important here at St George’s, so we have a range of staff from newly qualified PTP students, to highly specialised physiologists and you as STP students are part of this. During your time here at St George’s you are likely to encounter students from other educational institutes, at different levels of academic learning and from different courses.
Clinical Biochemistry – Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust
SWLP at Epsom and St Helier Hospitals hosts the South West Thames New Born Screening Service.
Clinical Biochemistry – Health Services Laboratories
Health Services Laboratories is a public private partnership between The Doctor’s Laboratory, the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). This post will be based at the Halo Building, our purpose built laboratory in Central London where we offer an extensive repertoire of tests covering automated biochemistry, mass spectrometry, stone analysis and specialist proteins testing. The lab is a specialist ‘SAS’ centre in steroid biochemistry and lipids while the proteins lab has strong links to tertiary and national haematology and amyloidosis clinics allowing us to provide extensive training in very specialised services. Trainees will spend the majority of their time at the Halo building, but will be required to spend some time at some of our hospital based laboratories at the Royal Free, Barnet, North Middlesex or University College hospitals. The clinical team at HSL consists of 7 clinical scientists and 9 chemical pathologists.
Clinical Bioinformatics Genomics – Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
This clinical bioinformatics STP post will be based in the bioinformatic team at Great Ormond Street NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH), which leads the North Thames genomic laboratory hub (NT-GLH). The bioinformatics team at GOSH has a decade of experience delivering the STP programme, and currently employs 3 graduate STPs. The successful applicant will be joining a growing team and as they progress through the programme, will have the opportunity to contribute to the clinical service. The successful applicant will be required to work onsite at GOSH and will be expected to travel to other hospitals in the North Thames hub for 2-8 week long placements.
Clinical Bioinformatics Genomics – Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
The training will be delivered by the South East Genomic Laboratories Hub (SEGLH). The trainee will be primarily based at the Royal Brompton Hospital but will have the opportunity to visit Guy’s Hospital and/or King’s College Hospital for certain aspects of their training.
Clinical Bioinformatics Genomics – NHS Blood and Transplant
You will be based in our H&I Service Development team in our Colindale Centre (NW9 5BG) working and training with a Bioinformatician in the team. Outside of your immediate team, there is an existing network of Clinical Science trainees in this speciality and you will have access to their support. 3 of the 4 year 1 rotations will take place outside of NHSBT in local Trusts or the regional Genomics Hub, e.g. Guys and St Thomas’ and Great Ormond Street Hospital. These rotations may be in person, virtual or a hybrid format.
For information, in 2024/25, our Colindale centre is being refurbished. There will be some disruption for a period of 6-9 months while the construction works are carried out. The impact on the NHSBT office space where you will be working should be minimal and you will still be based in Colindale during the works (when not out on rotation).
For more information about the work we do at NHS Blood and Transplant, please visit our website https://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/ and watch our online centre tour https://hospital.blood.co.uk/training/supplementary-learning/
Clinical Bioinformatics Genomics – Synnovis
The training will be delivered by the South East Genomic Laboratories Hub (SEGLH). The trainee will be primarily based at Guy’s Hospital but will have the opportunity to visit the Royal Brompton Hospital and King’s College Hospital for certain aspects of their training.
Clinical Engineering – King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
This post comes under the Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering King’s (STP Consortium only).
Clinical Engineering trainees will mostly be based at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals and King’s College Hospital. There may be opportunities to visit other departments for specialist training.
Clinical Engineering – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
This post comes under the Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering St. George’s (STP consortium only).
Training is undertaken in the main St. George’s site and in Queen Mary’s Roehampton. Depending on the nature of your specialism you will be then be based at one of those two sites.
Clinical Engineering – University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
UCLH is situated in the heart of London and is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK providing acute and specialist services across five main hospital sites. The Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering is an essential part of UCLH delivering expert physical science support services across UCLH and to a number of external customers. The team is formed of approximately 70 Clinical Scientists, Clinical Technologists and administration staff.
Clinical Engineering STP trainees will be based at the main University College Hospital site on Euston Road in London. We also have strong links with services across UCLH and other NHS Trusts in London, so placements are offered further afield covering the broad spectrum of Physiological Measurement specialisms, Medical Physics and Clinical Scientific Computing as well as Rehabilitation and Clinical Engineering. Trainees will work alongside other Clinical Scientists and Technologists specialising primarily in Device Risk Management and Governance and Physiological Measurement to understand the variability of the role of Clinical Engineers and develop the work-based skills required for the profession.
Clinical Immunology – Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
The post will be located within the Infection and Immunity Division based at Charing Cross Hospital, London, which also includes virology, microbiology and H&I services. As this is the hub immunology laboratory serving the teaching Hospitals of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHNT) , Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Hillingdon Hospitals NHS foundation Trust, we provide a full repertoire of immunology tests, including allergy, autoimmune serology, serum protein and complement investigations, TB (IGRA) testing and cellular immunology for primary and secondary immunodeficiency. This is a clinically lead service, accredited to provide training for registration and higher specialist biomedical scientists, pre-registration STP clinical scientists and HSST trainees in all of the above disciplines. Rotations through additional clinical specialities across ICHNT sites will also be provided during year 1 of training, shuttle transport is available between ICNHT sites.
Clinical Informatics – Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Informatics trainees will be employed at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) working within the Clinical Scientific Computing team. They will gain experience in the use of hospital data across a range of domains, including medical software and AI development, clinical decision making, business intelligence, and genomics. Trainees will gain skills in: Clinical validation and deployment of AI; Software development and programming skills; AI model training for medical imaging; Data curation; Maintenance of clinical software; Policy and regulation around clinical data usages; Clinical system connectivity and integration; Genomics and business intelligence.
Clinical Informatics – King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Microbiology – UK Health Security Agency
Clinical Scientific Computing – Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Trainees will be employed at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) working within the Clinical Scientific Computing team. Trainees will learn about the use and development of AI in healthcare, including the ethical use of clinical data, to improve patient care and outcomes. Trainees who specialise in Clinical Scientific Computing will gain a variety of skills including: Knowledge of all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle; AI skills; Programming skills; Creating software; Commissioning software for clinical use; Maintenance of clinical software; Data curation; Project management; Software policy expertise.
Clinical Scientific Computing – Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
This training post is based in the Radiation Physics Department at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, a leading London trust with a wide range of technologies. You will trained by clinical scientists in medical physics, clinical engineering and clinical scientific computing. You will also benefit from being affiliated with the London North Medical Physics Consortium network.
Clinical Scientific Computing – University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Critical Care Science – Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Critical Care Science – Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Critical Care Science – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Embryology – Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust
The training post is based at Beginnings Assisted Conception Unit at St Helier Hospital. First year Genetics and Genetic Counselling rotations will be based at Guy’s and St George’s hospital respectively.
Gastrointestinal Physiology – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
This training post will specialise in Gastrointestinal Physiology at a busy London hospital. The department is a tertiary centre for GI physiology investigations and receives referrals from across the UK. We have an active role in research especially within upper GI physiology and are hoping to expand this. The hospital is based in the vibrant south west London neighbourhood of Tooting which has both overground and underground travel links. The post holder will be required to travel across sites all of which are based in south west London. We are hoping to not only develop new clinical scientists within the field but also to develop our own service long term.
Genomic Counselling – Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
The trainee will be primarily based at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Part of the Introduction to Genomics in Mainstream Healthcare and Social Care rotation in year one will be at St. Marks Hospital, and part at the Royal Brompton, so the trainee will need to travel there. We also do satellite clinics so the trainee may have an opportunity to travel to different hospitals in our catchment area for clinics.
Genomic Counselling – London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
To be primarily office based with lab rotations in year 1.
Genomic Counselling – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The successful applicant will primarily be based at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, London but will also need to travel to clinics we hold across South London, Surrey and West Sussex as required.
Genomics – Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Genomics – Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
The training will be delivered by the South East Genomic Laboratories Hub (SEGLH). The trainee will be primarily based at the Royal Brompton Hospital but will have the opportunity to visit Guy’s Hospital and/or King’s College Hospital for certain aspects of their training.
Genomics – Synnovis
The training will be delivered by the South East Genomic Laboratories Hub (SEGLH). The trainee will be primarily based at Guy’s Hospital but will have the opportunity to visit the Royal Brompton Hospital and King’s College Hospital for certain aspects of their training.
Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics – NHS Blood and Transplant
You will be based in the H&I department in our Colindale Centre (NW9 5BG) working and training with a team of Consultant and Clinical Scientists, Biomedical Scientists and Support Staff. Outside of your immediate team, there is a network of Clinical Science trainees in this speciality and you will have access to their support. 3 of the 4 year 1 rotations will take place outside of NHSBT in local Trusts or the regional Genomics Hub, e.g. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Great Ormond Street Hospital. These rotations may be in person, virtual or a hybrid format.
For information, in 2024/25, our Colindale centre is being refurbished. There will be some disruption for a period of 6-9 months while the construction works are carried out. You will be based in Colindale during the works (when not out on rotation).
For more information about the work we do at NHS Blood and Transplant, please visit our website https://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/ and watch our online centre tour https://hospital.blood.co.uk/training/supplementary-learning/
Medical Physics undefined – King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
This post comes under the Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering King’s (STP Consortium only).
Trainees will be based at King’s College Hospital but the training could take place at KCH, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital or The Royal Marsden Hospital London.
Medical Physics undefined – London North Training Consortium
The London North Training Consortium is made up of six leading NHS Trusts: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Barts Health NHS Trust; UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Royal Free Hampstead NHS Foundation Trust; North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust; Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust at Queen’s Hospital, Romford. To enable trainees to fully benefit from the diversity of training opportunities provided by the London North Consortium, during the course of a trainee’s three year contract, the trainee will spend time in any number of the member departments, and are therefore advised to take this into account when considering choices of accommodation. The final allocation of medical physics specialism is made by the end of the rotational placements and is based on three criteria; training capacity, trainee choice and workforce requirements.
Medical Physics undefined – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
This post comes under the Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering King’s (STP Consortium only).
Training is undertaken at St. George’s and The Royal Marsden Sutton. Radiotherapy is only done at Royal Marsden and Diagnostic Radiology is only done at St. George’s (and the RPC). The other two specialisms will be done at both centres.
Neurophysiology – Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Travel required to St Bart’s Hospital to fulfil training post requirements.
Neurophysiology – University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Will involve moving between UCLH Trust sites.
Ophthalmic and Vision Science – Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Ophthalmic and vision science (OVS) is fascinating and varied. This training post is based in the Visual Electrophysiology Unit, Ophthalmology Department, Sight and Sound Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) working alongside a team of OVS clinical scientists. We provide electrodiagnostic tests and ocular imaging for children with ocular and/or systemic conditions with ocular associations who are under the care of the expert multi-disciplinary teams at GOSH. The post holder will require empathy, great communication skills, flexibility, patience, resilience and a sense of fun to get the best from the children under challenging circumstances; some of the children have rare, disfiguring or life limiting conditions. These conditions can impact the visual system and our work contributes to diagnosis, non-invasive monitoring such as indirect signs raised intracranial pressure in children with craniosynostosis, natural history studies, genotype phenotype studies and outcome measures for ‘first in man’ clinical trials. The first year training rotations are within London but can require up to 60 mins travel from GOSH. The GOSH learning Academy has a very active education team providing a range of healthcare science training activities across the Trust and supporting London wide networking and educational opportunities. GOSH is also closely linked with its UCL academic partner the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. Most of the Units staff have joint appointments with GOSH and UCL and are active in clinical research projects. GOSH is a rewarding place to learn, be curious, be part of one team and contribute to specialist paediatric healthcare.
Ophthalmic and Vision Science – Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Ophthalmic and Vision Science – Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Pharmaceutical Science – Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
The full Pharmaceutical Science STP curriculum will be covered within the Trust premises and trainees will spend time in Aseptics, Radiopharmacy, Production Quality Control, Quality Assurance, and anywhere else deemed useful for the Trainee.
Pharmaceutical Science – Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
The trainee will work closely with the training coordinator/officer and more senior members of staff to follow the curriculum for the Scientist Training Programme. The trainees will work in specified areas of the department and be responsible to the Designated Training Coordinator/Officer for their own work and progression through the scheme. The trainees will rotate through the following rotations as well as through other local/regional/national scientific services, in order to complete the required pathway work-based curricula. 1) Aseptic Services 1 (AS1) – Chemotherpay Production; 2) Aseptic Services 2 (AS2) – CIVAS; 3) Production 1 (PRD 1) – Sterile Manufacturing; 4) Production 2 (PRD 2) – Non-sterile Manufacturing and Clinical Trial Manufacturing Unit; 5) Quality Assurance and Quality Control 1 (QA1); 6) Quality Assurance and Quality Control 2 (QA2); 7) Radiopharmacy 1 (RP1); 8) Radiopharmacy 2 (RP2); 9) MSc/Elective Project. The trainees will be expected to travel to national academic and other courses regularly throughout their training – in some cases this may involve overnight and/or residential stays. Applicants should be aware that travel and residential costs will be the responsibility of the position holder. Trainees will undertake a master’s degree course at a designated academic institution specific for the training pathway.
Reconstructive Science – King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Respiratory and Sleep Science – Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Travel required to attend University. Minor travel within London required to attend rotational elements of the course.
Respiratory and Sleep Science – King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
The successful candidate will work within the Respiratory Physiology team at this busy London Teaching Hospital, while training to be a Clinical Scientist and studying for a fully funded MSc as part of the National STP programme. This role will be based mainly at Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS, but there will be a requirement for some elements of the training programme to be delivered ay Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. You will join a large team of Respiratory Physiologists of varying grades and contribute to a full range of Respiratory Physiology procedures. These will include full lung function tests, specialist lung function tests, diagnostic sleep studies and treatment of sleep disordered breathing with CPAP and BiPAP. Working for Our Organisation
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
Respiratory and Sleep Science – Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Some specialist modules may require completion at other NHS trusts based in the London area.
Respiratory and Sleep Science – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The respiratory and sleep service is located at St George’s teaching hospital and Queen Mary’s district hospital in Roehampton. Travel between sites is required, a shuttle bus between sites is available if required to commute in the working period. Cardiac and CCU specialisms will be undertaken at St George’s. Neurophysiology will be undertaken at Kingston Hospital.
Vascular Science – Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
The Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities. We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs. We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Vascular Science – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Main base of role will be at St George’s Hospital, SW17 0QT. No other external sites will be required. The department consists of three scanning rooms in a clinical team of six clinical scientists. We provide vascular ultrasound for a large spectrum of diseases, specialising in EVAR and AAA imaging. The hospital is located very close to Tooting Broadway underground station and also has many accessible bus routes.