Healthcare Science Assistant Practitioner in Newcastle upon Tyne

Main area 317 Imaging Physics and Radiation Safety Grade Band 4 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 317-2026-38-59-DR-A

Employer The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Trustwide Town 317 Trustwide Salary £28,392 - £31,157 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 18/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 27/10/2026

Healthcare Science Assistant Practitioner

Band 4

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, w e’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 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

This is an exciting opportunity to join a small professional team, based in the Northern Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering department at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne. The team provides a highly regarded quality assurance programme for ultrasound equipment in over 50 hospitals and health centres across the North East and North Cumbria.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated healthcare science assistant practitioner to play a major role in the delivery of our quality assurance programme for ultrasound equipment used in radiology departments, antenatal clinics, echocardiography units and other clinical departments across the region.

Main duties of the job

If you’re successful in your application, you’ll perform quality assurance measurements on ultrasound equipment in hospitals and health centres throughout the region, liaise with sonographers and other clinical employees in those hospitals and health centres and, together with more senior colleagues, prepare draft reports for the users of the equipment.

For appointment at Band 4, you’ll need a minimum of an NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent in a science, engineering or radiography-related subject, together with additional training to diploma level or equivalent.

In addition, the job involves frequent travel to other hospital sites, so you'll need a current full UK driving licence and a willingness to drive.

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:

• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Performs a number of healthcare science technical activities, e.g. performs tests on ultrasound equipment in a range of hospital and other healthcare settings across the region.
• Maintains technical records in relation to activities carried out
• May be required to supervise, organise and allocate work and/or train less experienced staff in own area
• Is involved in service development projects.

Person specification

KNOWLEDGE

• Knowledge of IT software packages at a level equivalent to GCSE Grade C or above
• Some knowledge of clinical hazards and infection control
• Some knowledge of clinical hazards and infection control
• Some knowledge of medical ultrasound technology, other ultrasound technology, or other medical imaging technology
• Some knowledge of quality assurance methodology

SKILLS

• Some specialist skills and knowledge in medical or scientific equipment relevant to the working area
• Standard driving skills
• Ability to provide accurate oral and written reports
• Ability to perform quality assurance measurements on ultrasound scanners or other electronic equipment
• Ability to plan own workload within set priorities

EXPERIENCE

• Some previous experience of working with medical or scientific equipment relevant to the working area
• Previous experience of computing, quality management, medical physics or a related subject
• Previous experience of working with ultrasound scanners or other medical imaging equipment
• Previous experience of working with staff from NHS or other medical imaging departments

QUALIFICATIONS

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in a science, engineering or radiologyrelated subject
• GCSE Grade C in English Language and Mathematics, or equivalent
• Additional theoretical or applied training to diploma equivalent level
• Clean, full driving licence

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

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