NextGen Academy Graduate Intern: Technical Consultant in Hull

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

As a participant in this programme, you will learn how to provide specialized technical expertise and support to hospital clinical teams during live implants. Your role will include regular procedural support of transcatheter aortic valve implants (TAVI) for the treatment of aortic stenosis in the catheterization laboratory (cath lab). Training and educating our customers is essential to building competence and confidence in our products, while also developing long-lasting clinical relationships.

NextGen Field Academy

Medtronic's NextGen Field Academy is a unique 12-month program designed for passionate and driven individuals from diverse academic backgrounds. It offers a structured path to develop into a qualified Technical Consultant in the Structural Heart (SH) business within Medtronic. This isn’t just training - it’s hands-on experience, expert mentorship, and real-world exposure to the most advanced healthcare technologies in clinical settings.

Internship details:

• Start date: 1st September 2026
• Duration: 12 months
• Working hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week
• Working model: in the field
• Location: primarily across Hull, Sheffield, Nottingham & Stoke area (80%), with national travel (20%)

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Participate in structured online and in-person training sessions over a 12-month period to learn how to become a Technical Consultant.
• Shadow Technical Consultants (TCs) in hospital cath labs to observe device implant procedures and learn on-the-job after formal training.
• Engage in regular check-ins with your manager, assigned mentor and TC team colleagues for guidance and support.
• Take on regular projects to complement and reinforce your learning.
• Participate and work towards level 1 certification (procedural support) and level 2 certification (CT imaging) during the 12-month program.
• Complete ongoing assessments with dedicated trainers and mentors to track your progress.
• Join additional NextGen activities across the European cohort.

Required Knowledge:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s student in Biomedical Engineering, Cardiac Physiology, Nursing, Life Sciences or a related field, graduating in 2025/2026.
• Fluency in English.
• Legally authorised to work in the country where the position is based on a full-time basis and does not require sponsorship in the future for an employment visa.
• Driver's license.
• A genuine passion for healthcare and medical innovation, with a strong desire to make a real-world impact.
• Excellent communication, organisation, and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
• A self-motivated team player who is ambitious, eager to learn, and open to feedback.
• Willingness to travel with occasional overnight stays, which may include some unsociable hours. Expected minimum travel of 80% (4 days per week).

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package. A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage. Pay range: 34,000 GBP gross annually.

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart — putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world.
• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities.
• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning.

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

• Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.
• Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.
• Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.
• Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support. This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees.