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In this continuing role, you will support large first-year biology practicals across multiple disciplines. You will prepare experiments, assist in classes, and help maintain safe, high-quality laboratories for students.
What you will deliver:
- Prepare, set up and dismantle practical classes, including materials, equipment and waste disposal across teaching laboratories.
- Attend laboratory classes to support students, demonstrators and academics, troubleshooting equipment and practical issues in real time.
- Maintain laboratory equipment, bookings and inventories, ensuring consumables, chemicals and specimens are available and correctly stored.
- Follow and help review OHS procedures, risk assessments and SOPs, serving as first aider and floor warden.
- Engage in continuous improvement and professional development, contributing ideas to enhance practical classes and student experience.
You may be a great fit if you:
- Hold a degree in Science with a major in Botany, Zoology, Genetics or Ecology.
- Bring experience preparing and supporting biology laboratory classes, ideally across multiple first-year subject areas.
- Demonstrate competence in several techniques, such as media preparation, aseptic methods, dissection or molecular biology.
- Apply strong organisational and time management skills to balance competing deadlines in a busy teaching environment.
- Understand laboratory safety requirements and follow OHS procedures when handling chemicals, equipment and biological materials.
- Use accurate record-keeping and basic IT skills, including Office365, databases, spreadsheets and online teaching platforms.
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