Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Clinical Engineering
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2026-30-11-DR
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Victoria Infirmary
- Town
- 317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/08/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 13/08/2026
Employer heading
Clinical Scientist/ Pre-registrant Clinical Scientist
Band 7
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team of healthcare scientists working in the Clinical Measurement and Engineering Unit of Northern Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering. This post is based primarily in two clinical services, visual electrodiagnostics (VED) and spinal cord monitoring (SCM).
This role involves working clinically in outpatient and theatre settings, with a range of teams from multiple specialties (ophthalmology, orthopaedics, anaesthetics). We expect that the successful candidate will be able to develop and lead research and development and quality improvement projects in these services and the wider unit.
- Interview Date: 13 August 2026
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37 hours 30 minutes/week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will perform VED tests on patients in an outpatient environment and report these investigations clinically. Additionally, the post-holder will provide intraoperative neuromonitoring for patients undergoing spinal surgery. Service-specific training will be provided as required, but an understanding of neurophysiology and clinical experience performing patient investigations is essential.
We expect the post-holder to contribute to and lead quality improvement and R&D projects in a range of technical and scientific applications, either in one of the home services or by contributing to the unit's wider portfolio of projects, for example through the clinical engineering team.
We are looking for a highly motivated person with excellent clinical, scientific and communication skills. We invite applications from candidates who have completed or are nearing completion of the scientist training programme (STP) in specialities such as ophthalmic and vision science, clinical engineering, and neurophysiology. Applications from candidates working towards clinical scientist registration by equivalence or who would be eligible to apply for equivalence in reasonable time frames would also be considered.
We would consider applications from people looking for part time working, a secondment or other flexible working arrangements.
Working for our organisation
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Contributes to the delivery of the service in their specialist area.
- Supports the development, implementation and audit of clinical and organisational strategies within the Service via the quality management system
- Performs a range of advanced healthcare science activities
- Provide highly specialist advice and training to staff within own area and other professionals.
- Actively involved in research and development projects.
- Supervises and trains less experienced staff and trainees.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- First or second class honours degree in a relevant science or engineering subject.
- Appropriate post-graduate degree at master’s level, or equivalent level of specialist knowledge
- Registered Clinical Scientist, or working towards registration
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree in a relevant subject
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Specialist in-depth knowledge o Relevant anatomy, physiology and pathology knowledge o Relevant legislation, standards and protocols including infection control o Understanding of the functioning and safe use of physiological measurement equipment
- Experience of working with patients
- Knowledge of Governance issues including ethical and regulatory considerations
- Up to date knowledge of Trust policies and procedures regarding control of infection.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and experience of some of the clinical measurement services offered by the section: visual electro-diagnostic testing, intra-operative monitoring, gait analysis, microvascular assessment and GI physiology.
- Experience of working under quality management systems.
- Understanding of audit, quality assurance and calibration requirements.
- Experience of performing, publishing & presenting research.
- Knowledge of study design and medical statistics
- Experience in training and supervision of trainees.
- Formal presentations at local, national or international meetings
- Use of library and information resources to find, acquire and disseminate new knowledge
- Leadership qualities.
- Able to work independently within professional guidelines
- Interested in working with children
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Problem solving skills
- Strong IT skills including database and spreadsheet use.
- Ability to communicate effectively with other health professionals and patients
- Good time management and organisational skills.
- Excellent patient and interpersonal skills
- Able to work as part of multidisciplinary team.
- Able to work independently under indirect supervision
- Excellent communication skills
- The ability to undertake complex calculation, data analysis and to issue reports on quantitative techniques
- Ability to carry out research and development working as part of a team
- Teaching, training and mentoring skills
Desirable criteria
- Ability to technically report physiological investigations.
- Ability to clinically report physiological investigations.
- Clinical measurement skills.
- Ability to interpret data, analyse problems and evaluate solutions by applying statistics
- Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.
- Training, teaching & mentoring skills
- Good report writing and presentational skills, including the production of scientific papers, reports and conference presentations
- Ability to give technical advice to colleagues, senior clinicians and other professionals
- Ability to carry out research and development working as part of a team
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Warriner
- Job title
- Lead Healthcare Scientist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01912823813
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