# Healthcare Scientist Associate Practitioner

**Company**: UK Health Security Agency
**Location**: London Borough of Barnet, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 25,651 - 27,220 per year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Gastrointestinal Bacteria Reference Unit (GBRU) is a National Reference Laboratory that provides specialist services for gastrointestinal and foodborne bacterial pathogens. As a Healthcare Scientist Associate Practitioner, you will provide technical support within the Unit, ensuring that GBRU provides a national and international service in all aspects of the work of the Section. This includes molecular and conventional microbiological analysis on a range of foodborne bacterial isolates and clinical and environment specimens.

Main duties will include:

- Providing technical support within the Unit

- Working with senior staff to ensure that both the service and non-service work of the unit is carried out in a safe, effective, timely manner and operates to a quality system

- Participating in research and development activities within GBRU

- Receiving, sorting, unpacking, labelling, and processing specimens in the laboratory

- Assisting in the provision of safe, timely, high-quality, and economical CL2 microbiological, serological, and molecular laboratory duties

- Undertaking DNA-based detection and typing for a range of pathogens with assays and techniques such as real-time polymerase chain reaction and whole genome sequencing (WGS)

- Assisting in providing a flexible laboratory response to emergency public health needs

- Evaluating and implementing new techniques/methods to the unit that enhance effectiveness of the laboratory work

- Providing technical support to GBRU Reference Services

- Ensuring efficient running and contributing to routine maintenance of all equipment

- Carrying out performance checks on equipment

- Managing stock control of the Unit

The post holder will develop working relationships and communicate regularly with a wide range of individuals, clinical and non-clinical, internal and external to UKHSA.

**Person Specification:**

- Educated to A level, T level or NVQ Level 3 standard (or equivalent) in a Science subject

- Experience in working in a CL2 laboratory including the use of bacteriology or molecular techniques

- Knowledge and understanding of laboratory safety requirements and procedures

- Well-developed physical skills, especially in the manipulation of pipettes and other laboratory equipment

- Good understanding of quality assurance principles and procedures

- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team

- An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships

**Benefits:**

- Salary of £25,651 - £27,220 per year

- UK Health Security Agency contributes £7,431 towards being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme

- Learning and development tailored to your role

- An environment with flexible working options

- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

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## Skills

### Required
- bacteriology
- molecular techniques
- CL2 laboratory
- quality assurance
- team work

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