Technical Specialist

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Technical Specialist
Division of Most cancers and Genetics
College of Drugs
Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences

We’re recruiting a extremely motivated technical specialist to affix Professor Aled Clayton’s group on the Tissue Microenvironment Group, finishing up laboratory help duties in translational most cancers analysis. The function sits inside the Division of Most cancers & Genetics and is funded by the Medical Analysis Council (Harmonised Influence Acceleration Account).

The venture will contain the event of strategies to measure serum biomarkers, for Prostate Most cancers. The group are particularly fascinated with biomarkers on extracellular vesicles current in most cancers affected person serum and the function will deal with growing assay approaches to quantify vesicle markers.

The postholder could have important expertise in a repertoire of molecular biology strategies and will likely be adept at working plate-based assays and performing RNA extraction and PCR-analyses.  Technical proficiency in understanding and minimising assay variables is vital, and capability to downside clear up and refine methods will likely be essential. The put up will contain working with blood-serum/plasma, from most cancers sufferers, and producing strong working procedures for the workflow. The postholder will even have duties for reporting findings to the broader group and contribute in the direction of manuscript preparation and studies to the funder.

Candidates ought to have a BSc in a biomedical associated self-discipline, or related industrial expertise with particular experience within the analyses of medical biospecimens. 

This put up will likely be based mostly on the Heath Park campus. 

Cardiff College presents many wonderful advantages, together with 45 days annual depart (together with financial institution holidays), native pension scheme, a cycle to work scheme and different journey initiatives, annual increments inside the pay scale, and extra.  It’s an thrilling and vibrant place to work, with many various challenges and is a proud Residing Wage supporter.

For casual enquiries, please contact Professor Aled Clayton – [email protected].

This put up is full-time (35 hours per week), mounted time period for 9 months and out there instantly.

Secondment alternative welcome – please be aware for Cardiff College members of workers on this put up on a secondment foundation, permission will must be sought out of your present Line Supervisor earlier than making use of.

Wage £32,332 – £34,980 every year (Grade 5).  Appointments to roles at Cardiff College are often made at backside of scale until in distinctive circumstances nonetheless, for this place, the beginning wage is capped at £32,982 (level 26) resulting from restricted funding.

Date advert posted: Thursday, 30 November 2023

Cut-off date: Sunday, 17 December 2023

Please bear in mind that Cardiff College reserves the fitting to shut this emptiness early ought to enough functions be obtained.

Cardiff College is dedicated to supporting and selling equality and variety and to creating an inclusive working surroundings. We consider this may be achieved by attracting, growing, and retaining a various vary of workers from many various backgrounds. We due to this fact welcome candidates from all sections of the group no matter intercourse, ethnicity, incapacity, sexual orientation, trans id, relationship standing, faith or perception, caring duties, or age. In supporting our staff to realize a steadiness between their work and their private lives, we will even take into account proposals for versatile working or job share preparations.

Job Description

Job Objective
Help the College inside translational most cancers analysis in growing diagnostic assays, finishing up supporting work, offering recommendation, steering and help, and main tasks inside this space

Duties and Duties
Key Duties

• Present skilled recommendation and steering on growing most cancers diagnostic assays, processes and procedures to inner and exterior clients, utilizing judgement and creativity to recommend essentially the most applicable plan of action the place applicable, and making certain advanced and conceptual points are understood.
• Examine and analyse particular points in biospecimen dealing with associated to assay improvement and efficiency, creating advice studies, supported by advances inside the subject of extracellular vesicle analysis and most cancers diagnostics.
• Be certain that the supply of the assay and variants of the assay is delivered to the establishment, proactively altering the supply in accordance with buyer necessities.
• Collaborate with others in an effort to make suggestions for developments of established processes and procedures.
• Set up working relationships with key contacts, growing applicable communication hyperlinks with the College’s Colleges/Directorates and outdoors our bodies as required.
• Create particular working teams from colleagues throughout the College to realize Divisional and College goals.
• Supervise particular venture groups on an occasional foundation to perform key goals.
• Develop and ship coaching inside assay improvement.
• Undertake quite a lot of administrative duties to help the division.
• Instruct and information different staff throughout the College inside assay improvement as required.

Basic Duties

• Be certain that an understanding of the significance of confidentiality is utilized when endeavor all duties.
• Abide by College insurance policies on Well being and Security and Equality and Range.
• Carry out different duties often which aren’t included above, however which will likely be in keeping with the function.

Individual Specification

Important Standards 

{Qualifications} and Training
1.    Diploma/NVQ 4 or equal Skilled membership/expertise.

Information, Expertise and Expertise
2.    Substantial expertise of working inside an assay design/improvement self-discipline together with dealing with RNA extractions and qPCR.
3.    Means to reveal skilled information inside the subject of medical specimen measurement to offer recommendation and steering to inner and exterior clients.
4.    Means to arrange customary workplace techniques and procedures and make enhancements as applicable.

Buyer Service, Communication and Workforce Working
5.    Means to speak conceptually detailed and sophisticated data successfully and professionally with a variety of individuals.
6.    Proof of potential to discover clients’ wants and adapt the service accordingly to make sure a high quality service is delivered.

Planning, Evaluation and Downside Fixing
7.    Proof of potential to unravel expansive issues utilizing initiative and creativity; figuring out and proposing sensible options and resolving issues with a variety of potential outcomes.
8.    Proof of demonstrable information of key advances inside assay applied sciences.
9.    Proof of potential to work unsupervised to deadlines, planning and setting priorities for personal work and that of others and monitoring progress.

Different
10.    A willingness to undertake additional coaching and improvement.

Fascinating Standards
11.    Postgraduate/Skilled qualification.
12.    Expertise of working in a Larger Training surroundings.
13.    Fluency in Welsh, written and oral.
14.    Industrial expertise or expertise in medical diagnostics.

Further Data

How we are going to help you in performing on this function –

There are some issues that it’s essential to have earlier than you can begin this function (see ‘Important Standards’), however different issues may be developed both by coaching, or simply by basic on-the-job expertise.  We need to help and develop you after you have began within the function utilizing a mix of the next to get the most effective out of you:

1.    Common one-to-ones together with your supervisor.
2.    An skilled and supportive group round you.
3.    Supporting you thru job-relevant coaching and improvement that you could be require.
4.    A mentoring scheme.

IMPORTANT: Evidencing Standards

It’s College of Drugs’s coverage to make use of the particular person specification as a key instrument for short-listing. Candidates ought to proof that they meet ALL of the important standards in addition to, the place related, the fascinating. As a part of the appliance course of you may be requested to offer this proof through a supporting assertion.

Please guarantee when submitting this doc / attaching it to your utility profile you title it with the emptiness reference quantity, on this occasion for this put up, 17736BR.

If candidates don’t present written proof of assembly all the important standards then their utility won’t be progressed. The College of Drugs welcome the submission of CVs to accompany proof of the job-based standards.

Job Class

Administration & Government, Technical