Job Description

Science Graduate Technician

Ealing

September 2023

The Role :

• Support the proper maintenance of all equipment, keeping it clean and ensuring that specific statutory inspections of specialised equipment are carried out in accordance with relevant regulations.
• Ensure the safe disposal of used and surplus chemicals and cultures.
• Ensure that the requisite Health and Safety Regulations and Code of Practices are complied with for safety of staff and students.
• Ensure stock levels are monitored and maintained in area of responsibility.
• Request orders for new stock and equipment when necessary and ordering where appropriate.
• Check safety of all laboratory electrical equipment and apparatus and appliances to meet current legislation, including the Electricity at Work regulations 1989.
• Clerical support including record keeping within an area of responsibility.
• Dealing with spillages and accidents in the laboratories.
• Ensure that all laboratories comply with First Aid and Fire regulations.
• Provide timely and effective preparation of materials for lessons, through regular liaison with teaching staff.
• Responsible for all apparatus for practical lessons.
• Making specific apparatus for particular experiments and assessed practical.
• To ensure that laboratories and preparation areas are cleared after lessons and at the end of the day.
• Apply scientific and practical knowledge to ensure all experiments for external exams are timetabled and trialled so that they can be carried out effectively by the students.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

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We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

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