Apprenticeship training course
Scientist (level 6)
Carrying out technical and scientific activity in laboratories.
- Qualification level
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6
Equivalent to degree. - Typical duration
- 60 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Health and science
- Maximum funding
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£27,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Accelerator physicist
- Acoustic scientist
- Analytical chemist
- Associate scientist
- Astro physicist
- Bio scientist
- Biologist
- Chemist
- Development chemist
- Electron microscope technician
- Environmental assurance officer
- Experimental scientist
- Field biologist
- Formation scientist
- Graduate scientist
- Laboratory analyst
- Laboratory scientist
- Material scientist
- Medicinal chemist
- Molecular biologist
- Noise and vibration scientist
- Optical scientist
- Pharmaceutical scientist
- Physicist
- Process scientist
- Scientist
- Space physicist
- Space scientist
- Translational scientist
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Identify and apply scientific approaches to solve problems, support investigations and recommend any follow-up experiments.
- Evaluate scientific experiments using an appropriate level of qualitative and quantitative numerical analysis.
- Critically analyse data, relevant literature and input from colleagues to inform investigations.
- Analyse, interpret and evaluate scientific data and present the results in written and oral form.
- Manage record keeping to ensure data integrity, traceability, confidentiality and adherence with appropriate regulatory requirements.
- Promote, enact, document, and monitor the application of quality standards, safe working practices and compliance with risk management systems relevant to the role.
- Identify opportunities to challenge assumptions and apply influencing skills to make improvements, make new proposals and build on existing ideas.
- Manage work plan, prioritise tasks and evaluate progress against objectives.
- Contribute to the development of technical projects across multi-skilled teams and share best practice across the wider business.
- Conduct complex (chemical, or physical, or biological) scientific investigations in accordance with defined company procedures and legislative requirements.
- Identify and implement continuous performance improvement using appropriate techniques.
- Ensure work meets environmental, risk management and sustainability requirements and regulations of the business sector.
- Evaluate own performance and knowledge, and set personal development goals.
- Troubleshoot equipment selection and implement sustainable solutions.
- Identify and collaborate with key stakeholders and provide technical support and advice where required.
- Identify how other roles in the organisation can contribute to achieving sustainability goals.
- Select and apply equipment, techniques, and methods to ensure reliable and accurate results.
- Undertake practical analyses and measurement and communicate the outcomes using appropriate terminology and mathematical and graphical notation.
- Use appropriate digital solutions for the collection and analysis of data, and the retrieval of appropriate information.
- Use communication methods suited to objective and audience.
- Use theoretical models, often involving approximations, to make quantitative predictions.
Full information on Scientist (level 6) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.