At school / doing A-Levels:

• Focus on obtaining good science based GCSE and A-levels
• If you don't want to go to university you can check out these NHS apprenticeships
• Start looking at the UCAS website to identify physics or engineering courses which you might find interesting (and check their entry requirements)
• Look at the NHS careers website for Careers in medical physics and clinical engineering
• Visit the medical physics / engineering department during an open day at your local hospitals
• Consider work experience or volunteering in a hospital or a patient facing role
• You could also look at HNC or HND courses in Engineering and use these to gain entry to a work-based training scheme in a hospital or in industry.
• Many clinical technologists training posts are hospital based so you need to find a job first. (If you search in NHS Jobs or NHS Scotland for “clinical technologist" you may find some available on a trainee basis). Many now require a science degree for this.
• Consider an apprenticeship to get started. Check the main government website here

• Information for international students interested in apprenticeships

• If you are interested in apprenticeships you should check your local hospital as so far most apprenticeships are on a local level and not nationally coordinated. This might change and then they would be available on the NHS jobs website (see above)

• Watch our careers videos on YouTube