Apprentice Laboratory Technician
- Recruiter
- Keele University
- Location
- Keele, Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Salary
- £5.90 per hour
- Posted
- 20 Jul 2018
- Closes
- 14 Aug 2018
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
Keele University
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
Apprentice Laboratory Technician
Starting salary: £5.90 per hour
Keele University is renowned for its exciting approach to higher education, innovative research, beautiful campus, strong community spirit and excellent student experience. With a turnover in excess of £134 million, over 10,000 students and a total staff of approximately 2000, the University provides high quality teaching across a wide range of academic and vocational subjects and promotes world-class research. Further information can be found at http://www.keele.ac.uk
This Apprentice Laboratory Technician post offers an exciting opportunity to be part of an extremely busy technical team within the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences.
You will be required to work as part of a team of technical staff, demonstrators and academic staff to support the delivery of timetabled sessions to users of the laboratories. You will assist technical staff as they prepare, assemble and set out laboratory equipment, reagents and consumables prior to timetabled sessions and replenish clean and tidy away equipment after practical sessions.
You must have an understanding and commitment to science and demonstrate an aptitude and enthusiasm to working as part of a team. In addition, you will need to have an aptitude for hands-on laboratory work as this will be a major part of the Apprenticeship. You will have a minimum of Maths, English and a Science related subject GCSE's at Grade C, or above.
You will be guided and supported to achieve a BTech Level 3 in Sciences during the course of your employment/ apprenticeship. You will be required to attend college on a day release basis which will involve travel.
This position will start on the 3rd September 2018 ending on the 28th February 2020.
Keele University values equality and diversity across our workforce and to ensuring our staff community is reflective of the diversity of our student population. In support of these commitments the University welcomes applications from individuals of Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds for all roles.
Post Ref: KU00000800
Closing date for applications: 14 August 2018.
Interviews will be held on: 3 September 2018.
For full post details please visit: www.keele.ac.uk/vacancies
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