Senior Technician (Education)
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (Central), London (Greater)
- Salary
- £37,332 - £42,099 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
- Closing date
- 26 Sep 2024
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- Job Type
- Professional Services, Health & Medical
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
About us
The Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine (FoLSM)’s dissecting room has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Technician (Education) to join the Centre for Education. The post holder will have a great opportunity to be part of a team helping to deliver world class practical education and enhancing the student experience. FoLSM is an ambitious and forward-thinking Faculty, with an outstanding reputation across a range of disciplines in Life Sciences and Medicine.
The Faculty’s dissecting room uses the bodies of people who have kindly donated their bodies after death for the benefit of our undergraduate, postgraduate and professional students. It provides our students with practical skills in anatomy and clinical procedures used by clinical and healthcare scientists, and provides ongoing skills training for clinical professionals.King’s College London is a signatory of the UK’s Technician Commitment, and actively supports the skills development and progression of staff on this pathway. This post represents an opportunity for an experienced technician to develop more management skills, while developing additional practical skills. King’s is a highly supportive environment that recognises the important role that technical staff have in the student experience and learning. This post will support your development as an integral part of the teaching and learning environment.
About the role
The purpose of this post is to assist with leading the team in preparing and caring for donor bodies in accordance with the law including embalming, dissecting, keeping accurate records and making funeral preparations.
Planning, preparing and assisting with classes, projects and courses including liaising with internal and external users, making expert dissections, maintaining equipment, assisting with demonstrating anatomy, supporting users of the rooms and assisting in supervising and training junior staff.
This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.
About you
As the successful candidate for this post, you are expected to have worked in a similar setting – working in a dissection room or mortuary, using technical dissections skills, and/or laboratory technical and practical skills. You will have extensive knowledge of topographical human anatomy.
The dissecting room is very highly regulated environment, where full compliance with regulations is essential, along with treating the donors with due respect. As a consequence, having a systematic approach to work, following well-established protocols, is an essential attribute for the post. Being proactive in relation o process improvement is also important to ensure that processes remain efficient and fit-for-purpose.
As it can be an emotionally challenging environment for some users, it is essential that the post holder has a strong sense of empathy and be an effective communicator.
Essential Criteria
- Extensive technical experience and knowledge of topographical human anatomy. Proficiency in dissection or similar fine motor skills and an ability to work with human remains in a respectful manner
- Evidence of an active commitment to career development including professional registration, such as RSci, or working towards CSci and clear progression in increasingly demanding jobs.
- Clear and empathetic spoken and written communication skills, with proficient computer use and strong interpersonal and influencing/behavioural skills.
- Proactive and responsive to contacts in the immediate area, across the wider organisation and externally (e.g., suppliers) to build relationships and networks.
- Solutions-focused self-starter, with excellent planning and analytical skills, able to manage competing priorities and work with minimal supervision. Experience in accurate record keeping/attention to detail
- Good working knowledge of regulations and best practice governing areas of work, including Health & Safety and environmental sustainability and the Human Tissue Act 2004.
- A reasonable level of physical fitness is needed for this role
Desirable criteria:
- Experience in using audio/visual and other technological equipment
- Experience or knowledge of basic surgical instrumentation & infection control
- Experience of supervising/advising junior team members, giving feedback on performance levels and training/coaching where necessary.
- Experience of risk assessment and use of standard operating procedures
Downloading a copy of our Job Description
Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.
Further information
This post is subject Occupational Health clearances.
We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.
We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.
We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.
To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.
We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.
Company
King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.
King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.
King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.
King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.
King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.
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