Clinical Trials Laboratory Technician

The University is a signatory of the Technician Commitment and a partner affiliate of the National Technician Development Centre (NTDC). We are committed to supporting our technical staff and offer a wide range of opportunities including networking, mentoring, training, professional registration and career development. We really value all our technical staff and recognise the broad range of skills they have in support of education, research and enterprise activities. By joining you will be part of a bigger technical community, offering support and guidance.

We are looking to appoint two highly motivated, full-time Laboratory Technicians as part of Southampton Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, to support new early phase clinical trials and other clinical trials or research studies with a focus on immunological monitoring and cellular pathology techniques. You will have relevant laboratory experience and display the ability to work flexibly and out-of-hours, when necessary, as part of a team as well as independently.

The post holders will be part of the Southampton ECMC based in the WISH laboratory, University Hospital Southampton.

You will be required to process a range of patient samples for storage, as well as for fresh or batched analysis within a quality management system and utilise immunomonitoring techniques. You will be required to comply with meticulous record keeping and database management for all processes undertaken, as well as fully comply with requirements of GCP for laboratories. Training will be provided where necessary. There will be the opportunity to work with other team members carrying out immunomonitoring on clinical trial samples performing flow cytometry, ELISA and ELISpot assays and bespoke immunological assays.

You will require a good understanding of the current health and safety regulations, and must undergo occupational health clearance for the job role., Disability Confident
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