Licenced Animal Technician

Agenda have an exciting opportunity for a Licenced Animal Technician to join our growing team in Sandwich, Kent. We are looking for an experienced technician to contribute to research and maintain focus on exceptional animal welfare.

**Essential Requirements**:

- Home Office Licence A-C
- Natural empathy towards animals and a passion for animal care and welfare
- Can work as part of a team and independently when required
- A good communicator
- A drive to progress and develop

**Desirable requirements**:

- Experience and knowledge of drug discovery research fields
- Competency in dosing routes and sample collection in multiple species

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Provide care and husbandry of research animals
- Take a hands-on role to support research groups with animal care.
- Performing regulated procedures, as per facility users requirements
- Keeping accurate records and inputting data onto computer systems.
- Communicating with researchers, experimental staff and facility team mates.
- Ensuring best standards of animal welfare and researchers’ requirements are met.
- Cleaning and maintenance duties throughout the unit, working to a high standard of cleanliness and health and safety at all times.
- Accepting deliveries of consumables, samples and animals and completion of records
- Support weekend work, typically in a 1 in 3 rota.
- To assume NTCO responsibilities as defined within LASA’s Guding Principles for Names Pesrsons and any amendment or additions to such.
- To attend and report to the Ethics Committee when required.
- 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 comprehensivebackground and pre-employment screening, an essential part of Agenda's recruitment process._