Senior Technical Assistant

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Senior Technical Assistant
Operations Team
School of Medicine
College of Biomedical and Life Sciences

The School of Medicine is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and experienced Senior Technical Assistant to work as part of a dynamic and supportive team.

You will be required to work within the School of Medicine, providing support across our research and teaching facilities. You will be responsible for general laboratory maintenance, including routine care of equipment and decontamination, sterilisation and disposal of laboratory waste.

As part of the Operations Team, you will occasionally be required to cover reception duties so a courteous supportive manner and good communication skills will be necessary.  The postholder would also be required to undertake regular manual handling tasks as identified by the line manager.

Candidates should have NVQ 1/GCSE level D-G or equivalent qualification, or work-related experience. The position will require someone who is comfortable working in a multidisciplinary team environment and is able to adapt to a broad range of duties and challenges in an exciting and rewarding environment

For informal enquiries, please contact Laurence Murphy, Facilities Manager, e-mail: [email protected]
The post will be based on the Heath Park campus.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week), based at Heath Park, is open ended and is available immediately.

Salary: £21,828 - £22,214 per annum (Grade 2). 

Appointments to roles at Cardiff University are usually made at bottom of scale unless in exceptional circumstances.
Cardiff University offers many excellent benefits, including 40 days annual leave (including bank holidays), local pension scheme, a cycle to work scheme and other travel initiatives, annual increments within the pay scale, and more.  It is an exciting and vibrant place to work, with many different challenges and is a proud Living Wage supporter.

Date Advertised: 4 March 2024

Closing date: 18 March 2024

Please be aware that Cardiff University reserves the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.

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

Job Purpose 
To provide core/building technical support to the School of Medicine

Duties and Responsibilities

Key Duties

• Ensure laboratory areas are maintained through cleaning and undertaking routine care of area, machinery and equipment, disposal of general and controlled laboratory waste and undertaking stock control, ensuring adequate security and levels of stock are maintained (preparing simple solutions under instruction) and stock is distributed as required.
• Be responsible for decontamination, sterilisation and disposal of materials and laboratory areas.
• Ensure laboratory areas are prepared for use by others, by issuing equipment to staff and students and provide guidance on its use and preparing and clearing away as required.
• Assist with the assembling and manufacture of equipment, as well as checking on satisfactory operation of the equipment (e.g. take appropriate action to report faults and instigate maintenance or repair processes, as per standard protocols).
• Deal with simple and 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.
• Provide reception service when necessary, this may include maintenance of routine records and updating information as required.
• Work on own initiative using creativity to complete set tasks ensuring standard guidelines and procedures are adhered to, recognising when to refer a problem to others.
• Participate actively within the work team, setting an example and showing a flexible approach to delivering team results.
• Be responsible for manual handling operations –moving equipment and the collection/sorting/storing of all deliveries.
• Practice health and safety, environmental and/or infection control methods in line with established School of Medicine and Cardiff University procedures.
• To undergo personal and professional development via University led courses or external intuitions in order to enhance performance.
• Assist with general technical support within the teaching areas when required.

• 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

Essential Criteria

Qualifications and Education

        9. A willingness to undertake further training and development

Desirable Criteria

Additional Information

Your application will be assessed against the following essential and desirable criteria for the role. Please copy and paste this section into a new document and give clear examples of how you can evidence meeting each criteria by writing under each one. You can draw on elements from any aspect of your life (e.g. work, home, education/qualifications or community life) as long as you focus on their relevance to the role.

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