Job Description

About the vacancy:

We require a Technical Assistant to join our Central Technical Team. This small team provides essential support to all our research and teaching laboratories in biology and chemistry. Your primary role as a Technical Assistant will be collecting, processing laboratory waste and specialist cleaning of glassware and scientific equipment and returning this to the labs. You will also be required to help our larger technical teams in supporting the running of the labs with basic preparation of materials and equipment.

The role is essential for the smooth running of our laboratories, and you will be a key member of technical services who all provide an excellent experience for our students.

About you:

You will have good experience of teamworking and good communication skills. You will be able to prioritise your tasks using information provided to you from the technical teams. You will be well organised and may have some experience in cleaning, working with hazardous materials or manual work or basic equipment maintenance. Some manual handling is required for the role. Laboratory experience is not essential as training is provided for the routine tasks required. We are looking for a person with the right values of fairness, honesty and strong cooperation and collaboration

Where is this role based?

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed, while we continue to develop incredible new facilities to enhance our offer even further.

In addition to progressive pay rates, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including:

• a generous holiday allowance of 25 days pro rata
• up to 12.5 bank holiday/closure days per year
• career average pension schemes available for all staff groups
• access to employee assistance programme
• 1st month free to our Centre for Sport facilities for all new starters
• family friendly policies and wellbeing initiatives
• onsite nursery at our Frenchay Campus
• option to participate in the cycle to work scheme
• access to a wide variety of in-house training courses and development programmes

Further information

If you would like an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Marcus Olivant on 0117 3288522 or email

This is a full time, permanent post, working 37 hours per week.

This post is available on a job share basis for applicants wishing to work part time.

As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.

The University\'s normal practice is that new appointments will be made at the starting point of the grade.

\xc2\xa322,214 to \xc2\xa325,138 per annum

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