Postmortem Room Assistant

3 weeks ago


Shrewsbury, United Kingdom Animal and Plant Health Agency Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 354864**Salary**:

- £23,811- Pro-rata for job share- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Administrative Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- APHA - Science - Surveillance and Laboratory Services Department (SLSD), Science Directorate**Type of role**:

- Science**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Job share**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- ShrewsburyAbout the job

**Job summary**:
APHA is a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.

Do you have excellent communication skills?

Do you thrive in a fast-paced, changing environment?

**If so, we would love to hear from you**

We currently have an exciting and dynamic vacancy for a full-time (Monday-Friday) Postmortem Room Assistant within the Veterinary Investigation Centre at Shrewsbury.

This role will provide the opportunity to develop your own skills and future career. Your responsibilities will include acting as a post-mortem room assistant to our veterinary investigation officers along with associated laboratory duties, maintenance of health & safety and quality standard and, as required, support to the admin team.

**Job description**:
You will be working in a friendly and supportive team in a fast paced, reactive and varied role. You will need to have excellent organisation skills, adhere to procedures and the flexibility to turn your hand to different tasks as the situation demands. You will be engaging with a broad range of partners and forming relationships with colleagues across the wider APHA team.

Your main duties will include:
**Post-mortem Room & Laboratory Duties**
- To be responsible for the receipt of carcasses/live animals and preparation of carcasses for veterinary inspection.
- To assist veterinary colleagues in taking samples at post-mortem for testing.
- Preparation and reading of smears.
- Storage and archiving of samples.
- Dispatching of samples for testing to other locations.
- Disposal and manual handling of carcass waste.
- Preparation of reagents.
- Cleaning/sterilising equipment and facilities.
- Laundry duties.
- Staining smears for specific organisms such as Coxiella, Brucella and Chlamydophila.
- Worm egg counting from faecal samples.
- Maintaining adequate levels of consumables, placing orders with procurement team as required.

**Safety, Health and Wellbeing**
- To comply with APHA Health, Safety and Welfare policies and procedures.
- To assist the VIOs with management of safety within the laboratory.
- To ensure that chemicals and disinfectants are managed and stored safely.

**Additional Duties**
- Participation and planning of Health & Safety contingency exercises.
- Routine monitoring and maintenance of equipment.
- Participation in audits to maintain accreditation to ISO17025:2017.

**Administrative procedures**
- Providing support, as required, with various administrative duties to the immediate and, when required, wider team including, but not limited to, booking in submissions, inputting data onto APHA data systems, preparation of reports and filing.
- Answering the TSE Helpline - checking details of fallen stock against the cattle tracing database.

**Customer Service**
- To liaise with, and provide excellent customer service to Stakeholders, Delivery Partners and Customers, both internal and external, to understand and appreciate their needs and requirements. Some roles will involve arranging collection of dead or diseased animals for postmortem, liaising with farmers, haulage companies and local vet practices.
- Liaising with laboratories over test results and reports.

**Person specification**:

- Well-organised and be able to respond to competing priorities, adapting skills and resources to changing circumstances.
- A team player, working well with others but can carry out individual tasks as required with the minimum of supervision.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Proactive in their approach to work.
- Accuracy inputting data and storing of records.
- Be physically fit.
- Experience of using Microsoft packages Outlook, Excel, Word and be able to demonstrate a good level of IT literacy.
- Customer service focused.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
- Making Effective Decisions
- Delivering at Pace

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £23,811, Animal and Plant Health Agency contributes £6,428 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- In return for your de



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