School of Health and Life Sciences

Biomedical Science placements

In your second year you'll spend five weeks taking part in a Biomedical Science Employer-Led Challenge or on an external work placement, designed with support from our academic team, so you'll gain degree-relevant experience, sector knowledge, and valuable references and contacts to help guide your career decisions.

Our unique, on-campus Biomedical Science Employer-Led Challenge aims to enhance your employability skills by taking part in a real-life challenge provided by  local employers from the Biomedical Science sector. As well as developing your problem-solving skills, the challenge will see you experience full-time working conditions, so you'll also develop professional skills in areas such as time management, working to achieve aims and objectives and professional ethics.

Please note that our BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science degree does not include a work placement year, and any professional work placement experience accumulated during your studies will not count towards completion of the IBMS portfolio.

Digital Nursing placements

Our Nursing students undertake a four-week digital placement, where they learn all about how digital healthcare supports the NHS and clinical practice. This placement is a great experience to start finding your feet with your electronic portfolio, understand the connections between how care can be delivered in our modern world, and start to work with our Experts by Experience. 

Our Experts by Experience are a group of people who have their own personal experiences of healthcare and accessing health support. They work with the teaching team, to develop the programme, offer advice and share their experiences in some of the modules.

Simulated Practice Learning Week

The Experts by Experience also get involved in our Simulated Practice Learning weeks. These happen every year, each year group will have a week spent in our simulation suite, which is made up of a clinical hospital ward setting, a skills lab, a high-dependency room, and a simulated flat environment.  So, we can focus on hospital and community situations. 

These weeks are great experiences for staff and students and this time adds to the number of hours you need to clock up in placement. You will get to interact with our patient manikins and simulators, start to learn and practice your clinical skills, and work as a team.