Senior Teaching and Research Technician (ED12036)

Job title Senior Teaching and Research Technician

Department Faculty of Science

Salary Starting from £29,605, rising to £36,024

Grade Grade 6

Contract Type Full Time, Open Ended

Placed on Tuesday 10 September 2024

Closing date Tuesday 24 September 2024

Interview date To be confirmed

Reference ED12036

Special Conditions Lone working, Working at height, Manual handling, Please see job description for all special conditions.

Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)

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Applications are invited for the post of Senior Teaching and Research Technician, supporting our MSc in Molecular Biosciences and MSc in Biotechnology programmes within the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Bath.

This is a great opportunity to work within a varied and exciting environment at the forefront of world-class teaching and research.

About the role

You will be expected to use your experience and skills to effectively support the delivery of laboratory-based teaching activities across our MSc programmes.

The role will involve working with academic staff and MSc students to facilitate the smooth running of the laboratory classes, contributing to the assessment of MSc student work, assisting with the development of new teaching activities and supporting MSc student's research projects.

With excellent practical skills you will lead the technical team across the MSc's main experimental research themes; focusing on molecular biology, microbiology, and tissue engineering. Ideally, you will have significant experience and practical knowledge in one of these main areas.

Examples techniques include; nucleic acid amplification and purification, cloning, bacterial/fungal transformations, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, microbial fermentation, mammalian cell-culture, protein quantification and visualisation, immunohistology.

For additional information about the role please contact Zoe Burke ([email protected]) or Neil Brown([email protected]).

Please note that all applications are submitted via the University website.

Find out more about our benefits.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.

We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.