Assistant Technician

Technical Strategy & Operations

This new full-time term time post is available immediately on a permanent basis, in Technical Strategy & Operation Services, within the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences.

This post will be contracted for 40 weeks per year to cover the term time activities of the University.

Summary of the role:

The Assistant Technician position will primarily support the technical teaching team within the Biosciences laboratories based in the Geoffrey Pope Building on Streatham campus. https://biosciences.exeter.ac.uk

The post will provide general support to the teaching activities of staff and students within the teaching laboratories. This role exists to support our Academics in a non-teaching capacity, to enable our academics to deliver their teaching from 08.30am until 18.30pm (our extended teaching day), the timetable may require the need to work on Saturdays. The post is full time (36.5hrs per week) and the working pattern will include a start time of 8.00am and/or a finish time of 19:00pm including Saturdays at agreed times as part of a staffing rota.

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification on our website for full details of this role by clicking the 'apply' button.

The Research Services Division is a key enabler to the delivery of the University’s Strategy 2030, the Research and Impact Strategy, successful REF performances, and meeting research income targets.

This role is within the Technical Strategy & Operations part of the Division. We are research and teaching technical staff across the entirety of the University of Exeter. We work in specialist areas across the University and beyond, undertaking and supporting research and teaching and promoting compliance and best practice, in the labs, studios, workshops, and field.

We are proud signatories of the Technician Commitment, working to raise the visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability of technical careers. We are also proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people to work in our operationally focused service. This role forms part of our Technical Career Pathway.

Benefits

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• 39 days leave per year
• options for flexible working
• numerous discounts at leading retailers
• onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme
• sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
• stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England 

Further information

For informal queries about this role, please contact Sara Honey, S.C.Honey2@exeter.ac.uk

Please be advised that due to the minimum salary thresholds imposed by the UKVI, this post will not qualify for university sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. If you are a migrant worker, you will need to ensure you have a visa which permits the right to work in the UK. Further details can be found on the Home Office website - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas. If you are an existing Skilled Worker visa holder, we may be able to sponsor and will review the transitional arrangements - https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/certificate-of-sponsorship-before-4-april-2024 

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