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Healthcare science assistants and associates make a difference to patients' lives by supporting assessment and diagnosis of disease and illness. Some will work in laboratories but others will work directly with patients every day.
There are no set entry requirements to become a healthcare science assistant but you're likely to need GCSEs, or equivalent level 2 vocational qualification. For healthcare science associate positions, you're likely to need A levels (including at least one science) or relevant level 3 vocational qualifications in healthcare science and some relevant experience of working in healthcare science. Increasingly, there will be opportunities to enter assistant and associate roles through an apprenticeship, where you may be offered the chance to take qualifications such as the Pearson BTEC Level 2 Certificate in Introduction to Healthcare Science, if you're working as a healthcare science assistant or the Pearson BTEC Level 4 Certificate in Healthcare Science, if you're working as a healthcare science associate.As a healthcare science assistant you will typically start Agenda for Change (AfC) band 2 or 3. As a healthcare science associate, you will usually work at AfC band 4. Healthcare science assistants and associates work standard hours of around 37.5 a week. Some may work shifts, which could involve nights, early starts, evenings and weekends. Terms and conditions will usually be different for clinical support staff working outside of the NHS.As a healthcare science assistant or associate, you'll need to be able to follow instructions and procedures, flexible and adaptable, careful and methodical, able to work alone or as part of a team, physically fit for standing, lifting, etc. You'll also need scientific or technical skills, organisational and communication skills.If you start as a healthcare science assistant, with experience and further training, you could apply for positions as a healthcare science associate. With further experience as a healthcare science associate (and provided you have the academic ability), you could apply for the NHS Practitioner Training Programme by taking an undergraduate BSc (Hons) Healthcare Science. -
Doctors in occupational medicine work as specialist clinicians and advisers to both the employer and employee on the relationship between work and health.
Training usually starts with a five year first degree in medicine. You’ll then complete two years of foundation training and either two years of core medical training, or three years' acute care common stem (ACCS), or two years' core psychiatry training, or two years core training in anaestetics, radiology or paediatrics, or three years' general practice training, or phase 1 of the faculty of public health training, followed by four years of specialty training (ST3-6). This period of training will include your royal college exams. Length of training can vary according to your circumstances.Doctors may work up to 48 hours a week. The working hours may sometimes extend beyond the normal working day to include early mornings and evenings. The basic salary ranges from £29,384 to £34,012. Once you start your specialty training as a doctor in occupational medicine employed by the NHS, you can expect to earn a salary of at least £40,257, which can increase to between £84,559 and £114,003 as a consultant. Remuneration and other benefits can be greater outside of the NHS, especially for accredited specialists.You'll need excellent communication skills to manage a wide range of relationships with colleagues, and patients and their families. You'll be emotionally resilient, have excellent problem-solving and diagnostic skills and work well in teams and under pressure. You'll also be very organised for the benefit of patients.There are approximately 53 occupational medicine consultants working in the NHS in England. In 2020 there were 35 applications for 12 specialty training places. You could specialise or conduct research in areas such as aviation medicine, radiation medicine, infection control, public health or occupational dermatology. You could also teach medical or postgraduate students.