Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Specialty
Region
Audiology – Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Two posts, each with a base at Manchester Royal and Withington Hospital with secondments at Trafford General Hospitals and rotations between them.
Cancer Genomics – Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Travel between the two sites (Manchester and Liverpool) will be required throughout the three years.
Cardiac Science – Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
We are recruiting trainees for Manchester Foundation Trust all trainees would be expected to travel between site to gain the clinical exposure to allow them to complete the Masters Programme.
Clinical Biochemistry – Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
The Department of Clinical Biochemistry in Manchester University NHS Trust has extensive experience and is an accredited training centre for STP and HSST posts. Our department supports both adult and paediatric services across 6 hospitals and comprises laboratories on both the Oxford Road Campus and Wythenshawe sites. The laboratories are extensively equipped with Roche Cobas analysers for core chemistries and immunoassay, several HPLC systems, extensive mass spectrometry equipment and expertise, an established POCT team, and one of the largest newborn screening services in the UK. As a training centre we will ensure you are fully supported to gain experience across the full repertoire of services we offer within the Dept. Rotations in other blood sciences disciplines are conveniently located on site, as well as being a stones throw from Manchester University for the taught elements of the programme.
Critical Care Science – Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
We are an expanding service and Trust. We anticipate that posts will become available as the service incorporates more clinical areas within the Trust.
Embryology – Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Based in host training department at Old St Marys Hospital on the main Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) site, with regular travel to academic institution and rotation into hospitals usually local to host department for completion of curriculum and learning outcomes.
Job purpose
In conjunction with and supported by the designated Training Coordinator/Officer, the Trainee Healthcare Scientist will be responsible for their own progression through the training programme, for completing the learning outcomes as outlined in the Learning Guides, progressing through a mixture of work based competence and experience in NHS scientific departments and undertaking the complementary academic master’s programme at the designated Higher Education Institution. At all times the Trainee Healthcare Scientist is expected to work within standard operating policies and procedures of the host department and NHS organisation and adhere to high standards of professionalism, health and safety, risk reduction, confidentiality, patient care and dignity, and respect for equality and diversity as set out in the NHS Constitution. The Trainee Healthcare Scientist (insert pathway) will be employed by the host department for a fixed term of three years, during which time they will work through a full-time programme combining work based learning and a part-time academic programme at master’s (MSc) level. The post holder will follow the curriculum as detailed on the NSHCS website.
About MFT MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary. We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness and driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable. At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Genomic Counselling – Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
STP Genomic Counselling training in Manchester will support trainees to gain experience across multiple specialties including genetic counselling for cancer, cardiac, ophthalmology, neurogenetics and developmental disorders, including prenatal. We are a large dynamic team with a strong track record in training for genetic counsellors.
Genomics – Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
This position will require travel between both Manchester and Liverpool sites.
Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics – Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Transplantation Laboratory, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL. We are offering an excellent opportunity for a suitably qualified and highly motivated graduate to join our busy laboratory in Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (H&I). The Transplantation Laboratory at Manchester Royal Infirmary supports regional kidney, pancreas, islet, heart, lung, cornea and haemopoietic stem cell transplant programmes and HLA typing for disease diagnosis and management. We are one of the largest H&I laboratories in the UK with an excellent training record and we take pride in encouraging career focused scientists to fulfil their potential.
Histopathology – Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
The Adult Histopathology Department at MFT is run on two sites: Wythenshawe and Oxford Road Campus. Training will be conducted on both sites depending on the speciality and techniques to be covered (e.g. breast and lung work is predominantly located at Wythenshawe whilst ORC receives more gynaecology specimens and has the Electron Microscopy service). There is a MFT shuttle bus service between both sites available for staff and trainees.
Respiratory and Sleep Science – Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
The Respiratory Physiology department part of the Northwest Lung Centre at Wythenshawe Hospital is looking to recruit a Trainee Healthcare Scientist. The Northwest Lung Centre is an internationally renowned centre for the treatment of Respiratory Conditions and Allergy.
The Respiratory department is a large department offering diagnostic services for over 40 Respiratory Clinical Consultants offering a full range of tests ranging from Spirometry to CPET to oxygen assessments. We have a sister department that run all our Sleep Diagnostics and you will have full rotation to this large tertiary sleep centre offering polysomnography and MSLT.
Wythenshawe Hospital is based in the South of the City of Manchester with excellent transport links by train, tram, and bus to the vibrant city centre. Manchester offers the best of both worlds with its vibrant culture of music and the arts and all that a modern city can offer but just a short 30 minutes to the nature and beauty of the Peak District National Park.
As a successful trainee you will observe and contribute complex scientific and clinical tasks, including working directly with a broad range of patients from divers backgrounds.
Building the skills to analyse, interpret and compare investigative and clinical options, make judgements, including clinical and differential judgements, involving complicated facts or situations that impact on patients care. Initiate and undertake innovation, improvement and R&D and be involved in the education of healthcare science trainees and other learners in the workplace. You will be expected to complete all work-based training and assessment alongside the academic master’s course to exit the programme with eligibility for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and use of the protected title of Clinical Scientist.
In addition, you will be expected to undertake work based experience to enable you to communicate complex technical, scientific and sensitive information to colleagues within your department in both verbal and written forms.Trainees must meet the HCPC’s standards for training, professional skills, behaviour and health.
Wythenshawe Hospital is part of Manchester Foundation Trust (MFT), MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary. We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness and driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable. At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together
Vascular Science – Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
This post will be equally split between Manchester Royal Infirmary and Trafford General Hospital.