Assistant Technician (Teaching Support)

Technical Strategy & Operations

Salary Details

The starting salary will be from £26,257 on Grade (C), depending on qualifications and experience.

Package Details

Generous holiday allowances, flexible working, pension scheme.

This new full-time (1.0FTE) post is immediately available on a permanent basis.

Summary of the role

A full time Assistant Technician is required at the University of Exeter in Cornwall.  The role is to provide technical support for a range of disciplines across the faculty including Ecology and Conservation, Geography, Geology, Mining and Engineering.

The role primarily supports the Education team for both laboratory classes and field trips. The role will be based in the Teaching Laboratories but will entail activities across the entire campus area including research Laboratories and occasional travel away from the campus.

The role will be varied and fast paced. There will be a requirement to undertake daily task to support staff and students across all areas including sterilisation or equipment and waste, chemical handling and sample preparation, as well as specialist teaching support.

Examples of support you will offer include setting up practicals, demonstrating lab and field techniques, organising field kit for international field trips, maintaining insect populations and fish stocks, making media, sorting sediment samples, preparing polished mounts and thin sections for microscopy

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

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community. 

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people.

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

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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