Research Support Assistant (12 month fixed term contract)

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We are currently recruiting for a Research Support Assistant to join the Platform Research Group for a 12 month Fixed Term Contract.  The purpose of this role is to provide essential laboratory activities and services supporting the scientific work being conducted

Your responsibilities in this role would be:

• Ensure laboratory cleaning tasks are being conducted in accordance with the agreed schedule reporting non-compliance to the Research Laboratory Coordinator.
• Cleaning laboratory areas and equipment when applicable.
• Placing consumable orders for items not supplied by LMT such as cold chain supplies.
• Assisting lab users to comply with waste regulations and liaise with LMT to ensure compliance.
• Ensure continuation of consumable and reagent supplies by co-ordinating with LMT and supply chain, reporting any supply issues to the Research Laboratory Coordinator.
• Responsible for new equipment registration, requesting equipment repairs and being a point of contact for routine servicing.
• Conduct routine facility clearing to facilitate 5s organisation.
• Conduct routine cleaning of cold storage units including a yearly defrost cycle for freezers.
• Assist the Research Laboratory Coordinator in resolving laboratory issues.
• Maintaining and updating laboratory information folders.
• Maintain reagent stocks, consisting of reagent preparation and aliquots.
• Support research sample management by maintaining records and databases and facilitating the use of barcodes by users.
• Maintenance of routine cell cultures, if applicable.
• Maintain the restriction enzyme database, ordering in new enzymes when requested.
• Provide support to the team on basic molecular biology tasks when applicable and if time.
• Provide support to the team for basic analytical assays, when applicable and if time.

To be successful in this role, you will have the following skills and experience:

• GCSE qualifications or equivalent in Maths, English and Science
• The candidate must have strong organisational skills to coordinate independent activities in many different facilities
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Excellent attention to detail
• Experience of working in a laboratory environment would be desirable
• A good scientific knowledge base would be an advantage
• Proactive skills

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