Ref Number B02-07789 Professional Expertise Research and Research Support Department School of Life & Medical Sciences (B02) Location London Working Pattern Part time Salary See advert text Contract Type Fixed-term Working Type On site Available for Secondment No Closing Date 22-Oct-2024
About Us
The mission of the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health is to maximise and advocate for the holistic health of all children, young people and the adults they will become, through world-class research, education and public engagement. The UCL GOS ICH, together with its clinical partner Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, forms the largest concentration of children’s health research outside North America. The 2024-29 GOS ICH strategy focuses on its five scientific programmes. GOS ICH’s activities include active engagement with children and families, to ensure that our work is relevant and appropriate to their needs. GOS ICH generates the funding for our research by setting out our proposals in high quality applications to public, charitable and industrial funding bodies and disseminates the results of our research by publication in the medical and scientific literature, to clinicians, policy makers and the wider public. The Institute offers world-class education and training across a wide range of teaching and life learning programmes which address the needs of students and professional groups who are interested in and undertaking work relevant to child health. GOS ICH holds an Athena SWAN Charter Gold Award.
About The Role
This very exciting opportunity for a laboratory scientist has arisen within the Eleftheriou lab at UCL GOS ICH. Working with Post-Doctoral Research Associates, and the clinical team this post holder will support pathogenesis and precision medicine studies of autoinflammation. The role will involve cell culture, flow cytometry, and handling some animals for in vivo experiment as well as some laboratory support duties . The main responsibilities of the postholder will be to expand and maintain stocks of iPSC lines, perform quality control of iPSC to maintain the high quality cell lines, and the culture and differentiation of iPSC into neurons, glia and organoids
About You
The post holder should hold an honours degree or above in a biomedical or related subject. They will have experience working in a laboratory, and have experience of processing and storage of human immunological samples, multi-colour flow cytometric analysis and/or cell culture . Experience of animal model characterization or stem cell differentiation is desirable. The individual will be highly motivated to succeed in research, have excellent time management, organizational and communication skills, be prepared to work to tight deadlines and in an independent manner. They will need the ability to work well in a multi-disciplinary team at UCL, and with our collaborating partners.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
- 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
- Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- Immigration loan
- Relocation scheme for certain posts
- On-Site nursery
- On-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/ If you have any queries regarding the application process, please contact Madhur Sharma on ich.hr@ucl.ac.uk quoting job reference
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