Career opportunities
The South-East is the premier location for those looking to work in the health technology industry. According to the South-East England Development Agency (SEEDA), there are more than 28,000 people employed in natural sciences R&D in the South-East alone and more than half of the UK's jobs in the rapidly expanding biotechnology sector are located in the region.
The health technology industry provides highly specialist and high-value employment. The range of specialist opportunities in health technology in the region is quite wide and includes:
- Laboratory technicians
- Medical technical officers
- Pharmacologists
- Research scientists (life sciences)
- Research scientists (physical sciences)
- Clinical research technicians
- Biomedical scientists
- Public analysts
- Toxicologists
- Microbiologists
- Clinical biochemists
- Molecular geneticists
- Cytogeneticists
Particularly in demand at present are statisticians, medicinal chemists and in vivo biologists. Health technology also provides employment in a wide range of support industries including sales and marketing, finance, business management, IT, human resources and administration.