Teaching Laboratory Technician Full-time NEW

Teaching Laboratory Technician

The main purpose of the role is to provide practical technical support to laboratory teaching and to facilitate the effective and efficient day to day running of the Teaching Laboratories and related spaces within UCL Earth Sciences.

The occupant of the position will work closely with undergraduate students, laboratory demonstrators and academic staff, providing support as required.

Duties and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following roles. Note that we do not assume that applicants have experience with all these tasks. On-site training will be provided where needed:

• Manage and maintain all Teaching Laboratories
• Organise, catalogue, and maintain the department's teaching collection of thin sections and teaching collection of rock samples and supplement it by preparing new sections and samples as necessary
• Catalogue and maintain all teaching microscopes
• Recatalogue and maintain in good order the department's collection of teaching maps.
• In conjunction with academic staff, assist with the setting-up of specialist teaching practicals that are held in research labs.

Candidates will have a minimum of five GCSE's at Grade C or above (including Mathematics and English Language and be educated to A level standard or equivalent, or have acquired relevant laboratory experience.

Recognised formal training / apprenticeship in a relevant scientific discipline is desirable, as is a proven understanding and experience of working with limited supervision and taking responsibility for meeting service standards and agreeing targets and workloads.

A proven understanding and experience of implementing and adhering to safety protocols within a laboratory environment is also desirable.

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Our department holds an Athena SWAN Silvere award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.