Lab Aide

Crown Bioscience; Osgathorpe; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Crown Bioscience in Loughborough is seeking a Lab Aide to join the Oncology in vivo team. This role supports day-to-day animal care, experiment setup, and administration tasks in a compliant, safety-focused environment.

You will help with cage cleaning, animal health checks, record keeping, and ensuring supplies. Weekend work and occasional out-of-hours may be required.

Qualifications

• Familiar with ASPA provisions and animal welfare requirements.
• Ability to recognise signs of pain or distress in animals and monitor health.
• Experience handling animals and aseptic techniques.
• Maintain accurate records and documentation to high standards.

Responsibilities

• Daily cleaning of the animal facility, cages and related areas.
• Generate experiment logs, folders, cage cards and sample labels.
• Quality checking and archiving study records and samples.
• Ensure consumables and cages are available and properly autoclaved.
• May receive animals and perform health checks on delivery.
• Maintain personal training records and compliance with SOPs.

Skills

Animal handling

Aseptic techniques

Record keeping

Health & safety awareness

Education

GCSEs / BTEC National Diploma in science or animal related topics

Job description

We are seeking a Lab Aide to join our Oncology in vivo team based in Loughborough UK. This is an opportunity to work with highly motivated colleagues in a science-oriented, creative, and dynamic environment.

About the Role

This role will work within an in vivo laboratory environment, the post holder will be responsible for supporting administration tasks associated with conducting experiments and performing day to day animal care and husbandry in line with strict compliance with legislative, health & safety requirements and company SOP’s/ Policies.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the day-to-day cleaning of the animal facility including areas and cages.
• Responsible for generating experiments on study log, generating folders, cage cards, sample labels etc.
• Support quality checking and archiving for study records and samples.
• Support with ensuring consumables and caging are available, autoclaved for use within the facility.
• May accept delivery of animals including carrying out health checks upon delivery.
• Proactive upkeep of personal training records.

Qualifications

• Be familiar with the main provisions of ASPA.
• Ability to recognise and communicate the signs of pain, suffering, in the animals including stock and experimental rodents (to observe all animals for the recognition of any variation from normal health and behaviour).
• Animal handling skills and aseptic handling techniques.
• User level maintenance of equipment such as cage wash.
• Completion of required records/documentation to the highest standard.
• An understanding about the work being undertaken and with the Home Office Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
• Flexibility to work some weekends and out of hours.

Required Skills

• GCSE’s / BTEC National Diploma in science or animal related topics is preferred.
• Some animal husbandry experience is preferred.