Faculty Senior Technician in Sport and Exercise Sciences

1 month ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Northumbria University Full time
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Department of Sport, Exercise, and Rehabilitation is seeking an enthusiastic, highly skilled, and self-motivated Senior Technician to join our dedicated technical team. In this role, you will share responsibility for the safe, effective, and efficient operation of our well-equipped, multi-functional laboratories, which support educational programs and academic research.

The role will involve delivering practical sessions within the undergraduate teaching programme, focusing on exercise physiology and sports nutrition. This includes demonstrating equipment and scientific procedures to students, necessitating proficiency in calibrating, maintaining, and operating specialised sports and exercise physiology equipment. Additionally, you will ensure the smooth running of anatomy sessions for St. George's University-Northumbria University's medical education programme.

A key responsibility of this position will be to provide expert technical support within the Department's Wet Lab, overseeing day-to-day operations and ensuring compliance with health and safety protocols. This will involve actively engaging in research activities, delivering comprehensive inductions and one-on-one training for staff and students on scientific procedures and the use of specialised equipment. Additionally, you will serve as the Person Designated under Northumbria University's Human Tissue Research License, managing the faculty's Human Tissue Bank and ensuring adherence to Human Tissue Authority (HTA) regulations.

The university supports the Technical Commitment, a charter that focuses on the visibility, sustainability, recognition, and career development of our technical staff.

Further information is available in the job description .

ABOUT THE TEAM

The successful candidate will work across multiple key facilities, including Sport Central, Northumberland Building, and Drill Hall, supporting a diverse range of activities. You will be part of a collaborative team of five technicians, providing essential support to academic staff, researchers, and students.

ABOUT YOU

You should be a highly motivated and proactive individual, qualified to degree level or with equivalent professional experience in a practice-based subject relevant to the role. You will have experience working in specialist physiology laboratories or facilities and will be proficient in using specialist equipment such as douglas bags, metabolic carts, timing gates, and benchtop analysers. Additionally, you will have a solid understanding of laboratory health and safety, familiarity with working with biological samples, and experience delivering training and demonstrations.

If you are passionate about contributing to innovative teaching and research, we encourage you to apply and become a key member of our dynamic technical team.

Further information is available in the person specification .

If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Technical Manager Amber Cassells at amber.cassells@northumbria.ac.uk.

ABOUT US

Northumbria University is a research-intensive university that unlocks potential for all. We change lives regionally, nationally, and internationally through education and research, tackling the global challenges of our age to transform society and the economy. Find out why we were named Times Higher Education's University of the Year in 2022 and Modern University of the Year in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025.

Northumbria recorded the biggest rise of any UK university for research power in the Research Excellence Framework for the second time in 2021 and is now ranked top 25 in the UK for this measure.

One of the largest universities in the UK with over 37,000 students from more than 140 countries, filled with world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and students at the heart of an outstanding experience.Discover more about us .

Northumbria University is a great place to work. We empower our exceptional people to achieve shared ambitions and promote a positive work life balance. We offer a wide range of benefits including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, a generous holiday entitlement, continued commitment to your learning and development and more.

Our Northumbria Values are guiding principles that define who we are, what we do and what is important to us. Our Values are: Academic Excellence;Innovation;Inclusivity;Collaboration; andAmbition.

Our Behaviours describe how we do things and how we work together at Northumbria, reflecting our culture and our decision-making. Our Behaviours are: We listen and learn, we support one another to success, we respect everyone and their contributions, we trust in ourselves and each other and we are bold.

Our Values and Behaviours were co-created by colleaguesfrom a range of roles across the University, whoworked collaboratively to consider what it feels like to work for Northumbria, and where we need to continue to transform together to achieve what's important to us.

Please visit Our Values and Behaviours page to find out more.

We are an on-campus organisation where colleagues work regular patterns of hours and on campus, with some flexibility on the timing of their hours and the location of their work in discussion with their manager. Our campus locations include our City and Coach Lane Campuses in Newcastle upon Tyne and our London campus.

Northumbria University is committed to creating an inclusive culture where we take pride in, and value, the diversity of our staff. We encourage and welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds bronze Athena Swan and Race Equality Charter awards in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender and race equality, we are a Disability Confident Leader and are participating in the Stonewall Diversity Champion Programme. We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the Euraxess initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers. The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.

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