Trainee position after biomedical science degree?

What work experience have you done in the past? I want to do a degree in biomedical science and was just curious as to what work experience universities like to see.

Well not much. I just volunteered in a hospital as part of a nursing team, and later I was shadowing surgeons.
Depends where you are applying, because seems like my university only wanted grades.

You'll struggle to get a Trainee BMS position if I am honest. They are given almost exclusively now to students of BSc Healthcare Science and internal applicants.

Your only real option is to apply for a Band 2 Medical Laboratory Assistant role.

Some get a bit stuck up about applying for a 'lowly Band 2' role but the way it works in the NHS is if you haven't got experience, you aren't getting in any higher than Band 2 and, to be honest, a lot of the applicants for Band 2 roles are having experience in related areas such as GP practices or other NHS departments.

As a Band 2, dependent on your laboratory, you can ask them to support you in going through your portfolio. Some labs are better at this than others. My lab will support anyone and everyone, some will make you apply and compete for limited positions to go through your portfolio.

You will still be a Band 2, but once you have completed your portfolio you will have experienced and be eligible to apply for Band 5 roles as a Biomedical Scientist.

If you want to become a Biomedical Scientist, this is genuinely the best way for you to go about it. It may not be what you wanted to hear, but if you do it you'll encounter many BMS' that went down that route because so many of them, and yourself included fell into the trap of believing that a BMS degree will drop you straight into a BMS career.

Thank you for the reply. I do not wish to become BMS, unless healthcare scientist counts as BMS.
You cleared out a lot of things for me so thank you once again.

You'll struggle to get a Trainee BMS position if I am honest. They are given almost exclusively now to students of BSc Healthcare Science and internal applicants.

Your only real option is to apply for a Band 2 Medical Laboratory Assistant role.

Some get a bit stuck up about applying for a 'lowly Band 2' role but the way it works in the NHS is if you haven't got experience, you aren't getting in any higher than Band 2 and, to be honest, a lot of the applicants for Band 2 roles are having experience in related areas such as GP practices or other NHS departments.

As a Band 2, dependent on your laboratory, you can ask them to support you in going through your portfolio. Some labs are better at this than others. My lab will support anyone and everyone, some will make you apply and compete for limited positions to go through your portfolio.

You will still be a Band 2, but once you have completed your portfolio you will have experienced and be eligible to apply for Band 5 roles as a Biomedical Scientist.

If you want to become a Biomedical Scientist, this is genuinely the best way for you to go about it. It may not be what you wanted to hear, but if you do it you'll encounter many BMS' that went down that route because so many of them, and yourself included fell into the trap of believing that a BMS degree will drop you straight into a BMS career.

I was a band 2 for 6 months before being given a band 5 trainee post. The reality is, if you are a good MLA, you'll be supported with training. We have an MLA who's just started and all he does is **** off the role of MLA's openly and insists he wants to be a BMS... But the MLA's are the back one of the lab.