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Senior Animal Technician

1 month ago


Portishead Somerset, United Kingdom Agenda Life Sciences Full time

Agenda are recruiting for a Senior Animal Technician to provide exceptional standards of animal welfare when carrying out a range of duties such as animal husbandry, observations, technical procedures, and various laboratory tasks. You will support, mentor and train others, hold a Home Office Personal Licence enabling you to perform regulated procedures or hold higher level responsibilities. Basic Requirements:

  • Holder of a Home Office personal license or have successfully completed internal assessor training
  • IAT Level 3 diploma in Laboratory Animal Science and Technology or degree level qualification in Biological Science/Animal Science
  • We need to see a track record of hands on experience in a technical role, specifically with rodents
  • Have a proactive approach to work, taking ownership of your own learning and development
  • Ability to coach and mentor others
  • Customer focused, listen to and respond to customer requirements
  • Documented competence to work unsupervised with 2 or 3 species
Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Approved trainer/assessor in routine husbandry procedures
  • Perform the role of NACWO or other names person
  • Collect NSP samples at customer sites
  • Competency of working in 2 or more operational areas and able to perform welfare and husbandry tasks unsupervised
  • Be responsible for breeding and maintaining genetically altered animals
  • Tissue biopsy for genotyping
  • Administration of hormones to aid breeding
  • Customer interaction to ensure the company is able to meet and exceed expectations
  • Performing blood sampling techniques
  • Assisting veterinary team with surgery
Agenda and its clients only recruit people who are passionate about animal care and welfare, people with integrity who are honest and trustworthy and who have a great work ethic. To enable us to hire the very best people, we will conduct a comprehensive background and pre-employment screening, an essential part of Agenda's recruitment process

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