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Biomedical Scientist
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Biomedical Scientist

Provide a clinical laboratory service including blood products, to support the delivery of enhanced medical care to our patients wherever you are in the world.

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  • £38,000 - £52,000
  • Undergraduate Degree
  • Surface Fleet
  • Medical
  • Rating level

At a glance

This job sits within the Healthcare & Medical Profession and is a Healthcare & Medical Rating (Unqualified) role. From conflict zones to natural disasters, you’ll be saving and safeguarding the lives of our people. Wherever you are, and whatever you’re up against, you‘ll be ensuring the wellbeing of our most important asset.

6 weeks

Of paid holiday every year

BSc

In Biomedical Science needed

£38,000

The minimum amount you'll earn after training

Free

Medical and dental care

£48,000

Earn over this amount as you progress

Travel

All around the world
Medical
I’m multi-disciplinary, which means I get really varied work, whether I’m on board ship, or in an NHS hospital.

Fiona

Biomedical Scientist, Medical Branch

Role details

What you’ll do

Saving lives. It’s what your job will be all about. Helping care for survivors at the scene of a natural disaster. On rotation in an NHS hospital. Conducting blood transfusions in conflict zones where trauma patients need lifesaving treatment. Wherever you are, and whatever you’re up against, as a Royal Navy Biomedical Scientist you’ll support our medical teams with an essential clinical laboratory service. You’ll help ensure the wellbeing of our people, and will be crucial to the success of every operation.

Your role

  • Practise all the major laboratory disciplines, whether you’re in a hospital in Birmingham, or on board a ship off the coast of Bahrain
  • Play a key role in supporting deployed personnel as well as those stationed in the UK
  • Be multi-disciplined, taking on a variety of duties rather than being restricted to a particular specialism.
  • Be part of a world-class medical service that’s respected far beyond the Armed Forces

Pay & benefits

  • A salary that rises to at least £38,000 as soon as you finish training
  • Earn in excess of £52,000 as your career progresses
  • An excellent pension scheme
  • Six weeks of paid holiday every year
  • Free medical and dental care

Skills for life

Qualifications you'll gain

  • Multi-disciplinary laboratory skills
  • An opportunity to study further at Degree level 6 and Masters level 7 to top up your professional portfolio
     

Skills you'll develop

  • How to support medical teams with clinical lab service, wherever they are in the world
  • Experience every laboratory discipline, and develop throughout your career

Eligibility

  • Aged 20 to 39
  • A degree in Biomedical Science
  • Membership of the Health & Care Professionals Council (HCPC)
  • IBMS accredited degree in Biomedical Sciences
  • Non-accredited IBMS degrees will be considered; check with MSAT PO
  • You must be a British or Irish national, a Commonwealth citizen, or a Dual National
  • A Body Mass Index (BMI) between 18 and 28 (between 17 and 27 if under 18)

Skills & interests

  • A high level of clinical skill 
  • A caring and compassionate nature
  • A passion for helping people
  • Be highly organised, and calm under pressure
  • A sense of adventure

 

Joining process

From picking your role to starting on your first day, these are the steps you'll take to join as a rating.

Step 1

Submit an application

Once you’ve registered your interest and have satisfied the basic eligibility criteria, you will be sent an online application form
Apply
Step 2

Defence Aptitude Assessment (DAA)

You’ll be tested on: Verbal Reasoning, Numerical Reasoning, Work Rate, Spatial Reasoning, Electrical Comprehension and Mechanical Comprehension.
To prepare, you can practice the DAA

Step 3

Interview

A formal interview to talk through your suitability for the role. This is normally conducted using your own device over the Shine video platform
Step 4

Candidate Preparation Course (CPC)

This four-day induction to life in the Royal Navy, including a Swimming Test and a fitness assessment, is a pass or fail course
Step 5

Start training

Once you’ve passed a Security Check, you’ll be offered a place at HMS Raleigh

Career progression

From responsibilities to pay, find out where this role can take you.
Day one
Finish joining routine, meet your mentor, start your rotation
Year one
Leading Rates Leadership Course, adventurous training
First promotion
Become Leading Hand, mentor students, go on deployment
Second promotion
Become Petty Officer, take on more management responsibility

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