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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Healthcare Science Assistant Practitioner

£28,392 to £31,157 a year

  • 317 Trustwide
  • Full time

Found by HiredNow AI on 5 Oct 2026. Subscribers saw it first.

About the role

Salary: £28392.00 to £31157.00

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.

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.

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.

Whilst Newcastle Hospitals are a forward thinking and highly innovative organisation, the use of Third-Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual application or to the recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Apply at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust