Laboratory Assistant

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

- 352271**Salary**:

- £26,100- Salary per annum, pro rata**Job grade**:

- Administrative Officer**Contract type**:

- Fixed term**Length of employment**:

- 9 months**Business area**:

- RBGK - Science**Type of role**:

- Science**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Kew GardensAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- RBG Kew has a long standing partnership with Natural England to support the Species Recovery Programme. This role will help deliver producing plants of Lady Slipper orchid, one of the rarest and iconic plant species in Britain, to support the Species Recovery Programme funded by DEFRA through Natural England. Kew will be working with several partners led by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.**Job description**:
**Person specification**:
**Benefits**:

- Our fantastic benefits package includes opportunities for continuous learning, a generous annual leave entitlement, flexible working to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance, an Employee Assistance Programme and other wellbeing support such as cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership. We also offer a competitive pension, an employee discount scheme and free entry into a wide range of national museums and galleries, as well access to our own beautiful gardens at Kew and Wakehurst.Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
- We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).- Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.**Contact point for applicants**:
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