Research Assistant

Location / Campus: Hammersmith Campus - On site only 

Job Summary

Applications are invited for a Laboratory Research Assistant to join Prof. Nick Powell’s group within the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. 

The main purpose of the role is to support the administration and management of the research laboratories of the Powell Group, working together with a friendly and active team of academic, research, laboratory, and administrative staff.

The post-holder will be supervised and line-managed by Prof. Nick Powell, co-lead of the BRC Digestive Diseases theme. 

Duties/Key Responsibilities

Main responsibilities will include: 

• Day-to-day maintenance of laboratory facilities and equipment.
• Assisting with purchase of general consumables and/or services and dealing with general duties while ensuring compliance with Health & Safety regulations.
• Providing teaching, supervision and training of staff and students in local laboratory procedures.
• Supporting the efficient and smooth running of all laboratory resources in a manner consistent with good laboratory practice.
• Supporting core laboratory facilities within the Section (e.g. Tissue Culture suites, Histology areas, liquid nitrogen facilities, gas stores/cylinders/alarm systems).
• Maintaining accurate records, and providing training, advice, and guidance for the use of facilities to staff and students. 

Essential requirements

• Life Sciences degree (BSc or equivalent).
• Significant experience of working in a laboratory.
• Proficient in laboratory techniques including tissue culture, histology, molecular biology, PCR, genotyping.
• Experience of processing human biological samples, including cataloguing and maintaining records according to HTA requirements
• Experience in overseeing safe operation and maintenance of laboratory equipment, and training staff and students in equipment use.

For a full list of the essential and desirable requirements please see the accompanying Job Description.

Further information

This is a Full Time and fixed term role until June 2025, based at the Hammersmith Campus

For technical issues when applying online please email [email protected]

Should you require any further details on the role please contact: Prof. Nick Powell [email protected]

The College is a proud signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA),which means that in hiring and promotion decisions, we evaluate applicants on the quality of their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published. For more information, see https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/

The College believes that the use of animals in research is vital to improve human and animal health and welfare. Animals may only be used in research programmes where their use is shown to be necessary for developing new treatments and making medical advances. Imperial is committed to ensuring that, in cases where this research is deemed essential, all animals in the College’s care are treated with full respect, and that all staff involved with this work show due consideration at every level.

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Imperial College is committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment. We are an Athena SWAN Silver award winner, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident Employer and work in partnership with GIRES to promote respect for trans people. 

Apply online via the above ‘Apply’ button.

Closing date: 12 June 2024