Clinical Scientist workforce demand scoping for 2025 intake

Clinical Scientist workforce demand scoping for 2025 intake

Supernumerary Clinical Scientist pre-registration trainees

1. Annually, NHS Education for Scotland Healthcare Science invites service expressions of interest for supernumerary pre-registration Clinical Scientist training posts. These supernumerary posts are a route for able science graduates to join the NHS and train via a 3-year programme in a particular specialty that may also include an MSc. The endpoint of training is statutory Health and Care Professions Council registration.
   
   
2. The Clinical Scientist title is not specific to any professional group and most Healthcare Science graduate-level roles have a Clinical Scientist training pathway in addition to other pathways that may exist.
   
   
3. Generally, NES has been able to support an intake of at least 20 Clinical Scientist trainees annually across Scotland and the specialties. We are gathering evidence of workforce demand through this expression-of-interest process, which closes 21st June 2024, for the September 2025 intake of clinical scientist trainees.
   
   
4. A template for evidence submission for the demand scoping is available to download below:
   Doc28(V7) Supernumerary Clinical Scientist Expressions Of Interest 2025

Should you have any queries, please contact the NES Healthcare Science core team at HCS@nes.scot.nhs.uk.