Laboratory Technician – Biosciences Teaching Laboratories Ref: 41549

University of Sussex; Brighton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in Brighton seeks a qualified Biosciences Teaching Technician to support teaching laboratories in the School of Life Sciences. The ideal candidate will provide technical assistance, maintain laboratory spaces, and ensure safe preparation of resources. Candidates must be motivated, precise, and able to manage their workload within a small supportive team.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to manage workload and meet deadlines.
• Motivated and hard-working.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to teaching laboratories.
• Maintain and prepare resources for safe delivery of practical teaching.
• Prepare reagents and perform administrative tasks.

Skills

Workload management

Precision and accuracy

Teamwork

Job description

About the Role

As a Biosciences Teaching technician, you will work as part of a small team contributing to the provision of technical support services to the teaching laboratories and practical teaching activities within the school. The role is responsible for the general upkeep of the teaching laboratory spaces, the preparation of the resources and equipment required to safely deliver practical teaching. This includes the preparation of non-commercially available reagents, set up and use of apparatus and relevant organisational and administrative tasks.

About You

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated, hard-working person to join a small team of technicians supporting multiple biosciences teaching laboratories and field activities in the School of Life Sciences. You will have the proven skills to manage your own workload, meet deadlines and work with precision and accuracy to deliver the service required.

About Our School

In the School of Life Sciences we strive to understand the mechanisms that drive biological and chemical processes and to develop innovative and diverse approaches to enhance human health, technology and the environment. We undertake multidisciplinary research, teaching and engagement across a wide range of subjects, from Chemistry through Cellular and Molecular Biosciences to Conservation Biology.

The School comprises five Departments: Biochemistry & Biomedicine, Genome Damage and Stability Centre, Neuroscience, Ecology & Evolution and Chemistry. We also house the Sussex Drug Discovery Centre which works to deliver the bench-to-bedside translation of our discoveries. The breadth and depth of our cutting-edge research and innovative teaching practice is delivered by a diverse community who work across boundaries to deliver excellence, engage with real world problems and produce impact.

We pride ourselves on our world-leading research and have a strong research economy, with approximately 50% of our income stemming from research and an active grant portfolio of over £50 million. We host or form part of three University Centres of Excellence: the Genome Damage and Stability Centre, Sussex Neuroscience and Sussex Sustainability Research Programme. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, 90.6 % of our Biological Sciences outputs and 84.8% of our Chemistry outputs were rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. We are proud that in both areas, 100% of our Impact cases were rated as world-leading or internationally excellent.

The School is committed to the University’s core values of kindness, integrity, inclusion, collaboration and courage. We believe that equality, diversity and inclusion is everyone’s responsibility and aim to provide a friendly and supportive environment for all who work, study and visit the School of Life Sciences.

Please find further information regarding the School of Life Sciences on our website. The School of Life Sciences is proud to hold a Silver Athena Swann Award.

Find Out More

Find out about our equality, diversity and inclusion.

Further Information

Please contact William Horne ([e-mail]) for informal enquiries. The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex. The University requires that work undertaken for the University is performed in the UK. Visa Sponsorship Queries: This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to teaching laboratories and practical teaching activities within the School of Life Sciences.
• Maintain and upkeep teaching laboratory spaces and prepare resources and equipment for safe delivery of practical teaching.
• Prepare non-commercially available reagents, set up and use apparatus, and perform relevant organisational and administrative tasks.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to manage own workload, meet deadlines and work with precision and accuracy.
• Motivated and hard-working with the ability to work as part of a small team supporting multiple biosciences teaching laboratories and field activities.