COVID Testing Facility Technician

12143BR

College of Biomedical and Life Science

Technical

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COVID Testing Facility Technician
College of Biomedical and Life Sciences
As we begin to welcome staff and students back to campus, their safety is our utmost concern. We are proud to be able to offer our own onsite asymptomatic testing facility for COVID19 and are now beginning the recruitment to the pivotal roles within this.
We are seeking applications for experienced technicians to undertake the testing and ensure accurate recording of results. The facility is anticipated to have a high throughput and will be supported by qPCR robotics. Full and thorough training will be provided but working in this environment will require focussed, IT confident technician(s) who can efficiently process a large number of tests daily.
This role is full time (35 hours per week) and fixed-term until 30th June 2022.
Salary: £19,612 - £21,814 per annum (Grade 3)

Date advert posted: Thursday, 29 July 2021

Closing date: Thursday, 12 August 2021
 
Please note that whilst full PPE will be provided, the risk of exposure to COVID will be heightened in this work environment. For your safety, a pre-employment health questionnaire will be required for the successful applicant(s).

This post has previously been advertised to employees of Cardiff University only.  We now invite external applications.

Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds.  We therefore welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of sex, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, trans identity, relationship status, religion or belief, caring responsibilities, or age.  In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements

Job Description

Key Duties

∙ Provide a service to staff and students by maintaining, servicing, and repairing materials, machinery and equipment within COVID laboratory testing facility, advising and training staff on the appropriate use of apparatus and equipment using established guidelines.
∙ Prepare all materials and equipment as necessary for delivering testing service ensuring whilst ensuring work area is kept clean and tidy
∙ Undertake stock control, ensuring adequate security and levels of stock are maintained and stock is distributed as required.
∙ Deal with routine enquires from internal and external customers in a professional manner, following established procedures, referring complex enquires to relevant staff members, ensuring all relevant facts and information needed is recorded and passed on
∙ Assist in the maintenance of routine records, updating databases and analysing routine data/information as required
∙ Record the results of experiments in a presentable and user-friendly format and to assist staff in the preparation of technical data/materials for future reference.
∙ Plan and manage specific elements of the testing pipeline ensuring the effective use of resources
∙ Participate actively within the work team, setting an example and showing a flexible approach to delivering team results
General Duties

∙ Ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties
∙ Abide by University policies on Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity
∙ Perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role

Person Specification

IMPORTANT NOTE TO CANDIDATES: It is the University’s policy to use the person specification as a key tool for short-listing and we only invite candidates to interview who clearly evidence that they meet (or partially meet) each of the essential criteria. During the application process you will be asked to attach a supporting statement. This statement must outline how you meet the criteria below and we recommended formatting this by using each criteria as a sub-heading and providing your relevant experience/evidence below each sub-heading. It is crucial that you save your supporting statement with the vacancy number (eg. 1234BR) in the filename as failure to do so may result in it being omitted from your application.

Essential Criteria

Qualifications and Education
1. NVQ 2/GCSE level A-C or equivalent qualification/work related experience

Knowledge, Skills and Experience
2.Experience in operating, maintaining, and repairing laboratory equipment.
3. Experience of working in technical support or equivalent laboratory role.
4. Proficient in the use of appropriate IT packages, including spreadsheet and database packages.

Customer Service, Communication and Team Working
5. Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with a wide range of people.
6. Evidence of working well as an effective team member, providing advice and guidance to other team members where necessary
7. Ability to deal promptly, effectively and courteously with requests for information or service

Planning, Analysis and Problem Solving
8. Ability to innovate to solve technical problems and responding to queries ensuring compliance with standard procedures and practices.
9. Ability to work on own initiative and unsupervised to deadlines, planning, organising and setting priorities for own work, as well as managing small projects as appropriate

Other
10. A willingness to undertake further training and development

Desirable Criteria

1. A-levels or an equivalent qualification or equivalent work-related experience
2. Experience of working in a Higher Education environment
3. Experience working a diagnostic laboratory
4. Fluency in Welsh, written and oral