Health Science Services

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust is the largest acute Trust in the Southwest Peninsula, delivering a full range of general hospital services to people in Devon and Cornwall, and regional specialist services. In 2021, the Trust came together with Livewell Southwest, an independent social enterprise, to form Plymouth’s integrated-care partnership. This partnership delivers essential health and social care for a diverse population with a wide variation in health and life expectancy, including areas of high deprivation and coastal poverty.    
We are the region’s Major Trauma Centre, and we are responsible for providing care across the widest of spectrums: from within people’s homes and working with our voluntary sector partners in local communities, to offering the most specialist care available in our regional centre: for example, cardiothoracic surgery and kidney and bone marrow transplants.

We are a Teaching hospital in partnership with the University of Plymouth and working with Plymouth Marjon University. We also have a well-established reputation for high quality research and a strong record of participation in commercial and non-commercial clinical trials. 

Health Science Roles

Healthcare scientists work in more than 50 specialisms which can be categorised into four groupings:

• Clinical bioinformatics 

• Life sciences

• Physical sciences and biomedical engineering

• Physiological sciences