Apprentice Healthcare Science Assistant - GI Physiology
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
East Riding of Yorkshire (HU16 5JQ)
Closes in 14 days (Thursday 12 November 2026)
Posted on 29 October 2026
Contents
Summary
This is a unique apprenticeship opportunity to support Clinical Scientists and Specialist Practitioners in our GI Physiology diagnostic services. The work will involve direct patient contact as well as liaising with medical staff. As such, candidates must be 18 years of age when they start the apprenticeship (anticipated January 2027).
- Wage
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£15,600 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
Plus additional, set daily expenses of £6.10 per day
- Training course
- Healthcare science associate (level 4)
- Hours
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The service is run Monday - Friday. There may be some requirement for evening / weekend work going forward to meet patient need, but this will be discussed and will be limited.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 4 January 2027
- Duration
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2 years 2 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
These are some examples of the duties that the successful apprentice will undertake following training:
- Assisting with the preparation of patients, clinical environments and specialist equipment for GI Physiology investigations
- Supporting Clinical Scientists and Specialist Practitioners during diagnostic procedures, ensuring patient comfort, dignity and safety
- Assisting with the cleaning, preparation, maintenance and quality control of specialist diagnostic equipment in accordance with departmental procedures
- Supporting the accurate recording, handling and management of clinical data and patient information, maintaining confidentiality and compliance with information governance requirements
- Communicating effectively with patients, carers and multidisciplinary colleagues, providing appropriate information and reassurance throughout the patient pathway
- Contributing to departmental quality assurance, infection prevention and control, health and safety, and service improvement activities
- Actively participating in the Level 4 Healthcare Science Apprenticeship programme, completing academic requirements, workplace assessments and competency-based training
Where you'll work
Castle Road
Cottingham
East Riding of Yorkshire
HU16 5JQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CSR SCIENTIFIC TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
Healthcare science associate (level 4)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Act in line with legislation, standard operating procedures, codes of conduct and ways of working that apply to own role.
- Work within the scope of the role, the limits of own knowledge and skills and support others to do the same.
- Act in line with probity requirements and support others to do the same.
- Promote mental health, wellbeing and resilience in the workplace.
- Provide technical healthcare-science-based services relevant to own role.
- Recognise problems and seek technical solutions to them and support others to do the same.
- Perform a range of equipment management activities appropriate to own role including fault-finding, preventative maintenance, calibration or repair.
- Contribute to the drafting or revising of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Support decisions made to initiate, continue, modify or cease using techniques or procedures.
- Analyse, interpret, record and present healthcare science technical data.
- Provide or support the provision of person-centred care.
- Take responsibility for any care provided by yourself and your team members including adhering to duty of care and safeguarding requirements.
- Apply policy and protocols that relate to informed consent.
- Protect the dignity, rights, privacy and confidentiality of individuals and support others to do the same.
- Deliver or support the delivery of high quality technical clinical procedures in the investigation or management of individuals.
- Convey information using appropriate techniques.
- Give and receive feedback that informs your own practice and that of others in the team.
- Use techniques to reduce communication barriers and support others to do the same.
- Keep accurate, confidential records and produce reliable data, inputting and retrieving information within required governance processes and checking that others do the same.
- Share information correctly as part of the healthcare science team and the multi-professional team.
- Use technology to present information.
- Follow protocols for dealing with or reporting difficult situations and complaints.
- Work as part of the healthcare science team and the wider healthcare team to provide healthcare science services.
- Plan, review and report on the work of a team and individuals within it.
- Follow delegation, reporting and escalation protocols appropriate to own role.
- Demonstrate leadership skills appropriate to own role and work in partnership with the healthcare science and wider healthcare team.
- Help create the conditions that assist the team in providing a supportive environment for colleagues.
- Maintain and check that others maintain a safe and healthy working environment.
- Participate in the management of risk, supporting others to do the same.
- Take appropriate action in response to incidents or emergencies, reporting or escalating as required by the situation.
- Move and transport items safely for example individuals or equipment and items.
- Adhere to protocols for infection prevention and control and support others to do the same.
- Follow guidelines and procedures for handling hazardous materials and substances.
- Demonstrate relevant health, safety or security practices to others in the team.
- Take part in quality management technical audit processes relevant to own role.
- Participate in audit or service improvement programmes.
- Share the outcome of audit or service improvement with others.
- Support the improvement of healthcare science practice by taking part in innovation or research or service improvement activities.
- Undertake audit, research or other activities which support quality improvement, innovation and sustainability in healthcare science.
- Critically reflect on your technical and non-technical practice and how it impacts on the quality and safety of patient care.
- Work within the limits of your personal competence, keeping up-to-date by engaging in continuing personal and professional development.
- Take part in mentoring processes with colleagues and students.
- Respond to appraisal or performance review and feedback in relation to your own development and action plans.
- Supervise and demonstrate practical skills to others.
- Act in line with legislation, standard operating procedures, codes of conduct and ways of working that apply to own role.
- Work within the scope of the role, the limits of own knowledge and skills and support others to do the same.
- Act in line with probity requirements and support others to do the same.
- Promote mental health, wellbeing and resilience in the workplace.
- Provide technical healthcare-science-based services relevant to own role.
- Recognise problems and seek technical solutions to them and support others to do the same.
- Perform a range of equipment management activities appropriate to own role including fault-finding, preventative maintenance, calibration or repair.
- Contribute to the drafting or revising of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Support decisions made to initiate, continue, modify or cease using techniques or procedures.
- Analyse, interpret, record and present healthcare science technical data.
- Provide or support the provision of person-centred care.
- Take responsibility for any care provided by yourself and your team members including adhering to duty of care and safeguarding requirements.
- Apply policy and protocols that relate to informed consent.
- Protect the dignity, rights, privacy and confidentiality of individuals and support others to do the same.
- Deliver or support the delivery of high quality technical clinical procedures in the investigation or management of individuals.
- Convey information using appropriate techniques.
- Give and receive feedback that informs your own practice and that of others in the team.
- Use techniques to reduce communication barriers and support others to do the same.
- Keep accurate, confidential records and produce reliable data, inputting and retrieving information within required governance processes and checking that others do the same.
- Share information correctly as part of the healthcare science team and the multi-professional team.
- Use technology to present information.
- Follow protocols for dealing with or reporting difficult situations and complaints.
- Work as part of the healthcare science team and the wider healthcare team to provide healthcare science services.
- Plan, review and report on the work of a team and individuals within it.
- Follow delegation, reporting and escalation protocols appropriate to own role.
- Demonstrate leadership skills appropriate to own role and work in partnership with the healthcare science and wider healthcare team.
- Help create the conditions that assist the team in providing a supportive environment for colleagues.
- Maintain and check that others maintain a safe and healthy working environment.
- Participate in the management of risk, supporting others to do the same.
- Take appropriate action in response to incidents or emergencies, reporting or escalating as required by the situation.
- Move and transport items safely for example individuals or equipment and items.
- Adhere to protocols for infection prevention and control and support others to do the same.
- Follow guidelines and procedures for handling hazardous materials and substances.
- Demonstrate relevant health, safety or security practices to others in the team.
- Take part in quality management technical audit processes relevant to own role.
- Participate in audit or service improvement programmes.
- Share the outcome of audit or service improvement with others.
- Support the improvement of healthcare science practice by taking part in innovation or research or service improvement activities.
- Undertake audit, research or other activities which support quality improvement, innovation and sustainability in healthcare science.
- Critically reflect on your technical and non-technical practice and how it impacts on the quality and safety of patient care.
- Work within the limits of your personal competence, keeping up-to-date by engaging in continuing personal and professional development.
- Take part in mentoring processes with colleagues and students.
- Respond to appraisal or performance review and feedback in relation to your own development and action plans.
- Supervise and demonstrate practical skills to others.
Training schedule
- The successful candidate will undertake online / distance learning with the learning provider (which is fully supported by the service)
- Day to day, the apprentice will be working alongside highly experienced clinical scientists and specialist practitioners as well as other apprentices to develop skills needed in the service
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (Language) (grade C/4 or above)
- Maths (grade C/4 or above)
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
A core understanding of the importance of patient care, confidentiality and safety is required.
Candidates will also need to meet the funding eligibility criteria, including residency or appropriate visa (work and study) for a minimum duration of the apprenticeship programme.
About this employer
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
https://www.hey.nhs.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Upon completion of the apprenticeship the successful candidate will be a qualified healthcare science assistant with the possibility of a role within the service, or similar.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Warren Jackson
warren.jackson@nhs.net
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000061647.
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Closes in 14 days (Thursday 12 November 2026)
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