Lab Technician

Job id: 086485. Wage: £32,979 – £36,396 every year, together with London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 18 March 2024. Deadline: 01 April 2024.

Enterprise unit: School of Life Sciences & Drugs. Division: St John’s Institute of Dermatology.

Contact particulars:David Baudry. [email protected]

Location: Man’s Campus. Class: Skilled & Assist Providers.

Job description

An thrilling alternative has arisen for a Laboratory Technician to help the supply of translational analysis actions at St John’s Institute of Dermatology.  The submit holder will be a part of a big interdisciplinary workforce of clinicians, scientists and research administration personnel to ship our internationally main pores and skin analysis programmes in three, interrelated areas with excessive unmet wants – immune-mediated illnesses, most cancers and uncommon illness.  This is a chance to work with the biggest pores and skin bioresource within the UK in an instructional laboratory setting.

The submit holder will work intently with the Senior Laboratory Technician and the Bioresource Supervisor and can be instrumental in processing organic samples for our research (primarily extracting DNA and RNA), in addition to documenting pattern processes/storage/use on related databases. Additionally, you will help with PBMCs isolation and cell tradition as wanted. The profitable candidate will even assist catalogue historic samples and consolidate current collections. The job might require occasional early begins/late finishes/weekend work, along with going to different websites throughout London the place samples could also be collected. You may be a reliable workforce participant, in a position to work nicely inside the technical workforce to ship a complete technical service.  It is possible for you to to work independently when acceptable, possessing glorious planning and communication abilities and in a position to prioritise their very own workload successfully.

This submit is fully lab based mostly and the profitable candidate can be engaged on website, there isn’t a scope for hybrid working and/or working from house.

Because of the nature of this undertaking, there could also be occasions when the submit holder can be wanted to work outdoors of the core hours.

This submit can be provided on a fixed-term contract till thirty first January 2026.

This can be a full time submit – 100% full time equal.

Key obligations

• Course of and retailer samples as they’re collected at St John’s Institute of Dermatology clinics and exterior websites, together with DNA/RNA extractions and serum aliquoting, in addition to PBMCs isolations and pores and skin embedment when wanted
• Liaise with scientific, scientific and laboratory workforce to make sure all samples are processed in a well timed method
• Doc precisely and in a well timed method all pattern processes/storage/use in related databases
• Catalogue historic samples and assist consolidate current pattern collections
• Make up options, stains and reagents for tissue tradition and pattern processing as required
• Handle personal workload inside the parameters of an-agreed work plan, responding to altering priorities and an evolving surroundings/context
• Use a broad vary of technical or sensible abilities and a well-developed working information of technical or scientific practices and procedures
• Have interaction in Persevering with Skilled Improvement and coaching initiatives, consistent with the Technician Dedication and Analysis Concordat for at least 10 days professional rata per 12 months
• Actively interact within the King’s Technical Community, constructing a community throughout the School to offer peer help and alternatives to share greatest follow
• Forge relationships with colleagues within the College, School, college and externally, to construct relationships and disseminate and get info
• Contribute to concepts for bettering present working strategies and procedures
• Implement native environmentally sustainable practices, following King’s sustainability audit course of
• Implement and monitor compliance with native laws, to make sure a secure office and report accidents/incidents to line supervisor(s) or supervisor(s)
• Facilitate an inclusive tradition and ethos working with educational, analysis and different skilled companies workers and colleagues exterior to King’s
• Take part in cross-College/ School/College tasks and initiatives for as much as 10% FTE
• Help on the whole lab upkeep and group both in collaboration with an skilled scientist or extra independently
• Adhere to native laboratory SOPs and nationwide well being and security insurance policies and help with related paperwork and administration to satisfy Good Scientific Laboratory Observe (GCLP), Good Scientific Observe (GCP) and Belief tips

The above record of obligations might not be exhaustive, and the submit holder can be required to undertake such duties and obligations as might moderately be anticipated inside the scope and grading of the submit.

Abilities, information, and expertise

Important standards

Minimal stage 3 qualification, e.g. A ranges, AS ranges, Worldwide Baccalaureate diploma or different Stage 3 qualification, plus work expertise in related technical/scientific posts OR appreciable information and abilities gained by way of work expertise in related technical or scientific posts

Dedication to non-public {and professional} improvement

Information and sensible use of a variety of technical abilities

Capacity to use learnt strategies to the work context

Clear spoken and written communication abilities, with proficient laptop use (Microsoft Workplace together with Outlook, Phrase, Excel) and databases, and powerful interpersonal and influencing/behavioural abilities

Proactive and aware of contacts in speedy space, throughout a wider organisation and externally to construct relationships and networks

Options-focused self-starter, with sturdy planning and analytical abilities, in a position to handle competing priorities and work with minimal supervision

Working information of laws and greatest follow governing space of labor, together with Well being & Security and environmental sustainability

Laboratory expertise in pattern processing (DNA/RNA extractions)

Capacity to take care of correct laboratory data

Information of laboratory procedures and normal working procedures

This submit is fully lab based mostly and the profitable candidate can be engaged on website, there isn’t a scope for hybrid working and/or working from house.

This submit is topic to Occupational Well being clearance.