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Pathology Scientist ID2768

2 months ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Animal and Plant Health Agency Full time
Job Summary

The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) is a leading organization in the field of animal, public, and plant health. Our diverse teams of skilled professionals work together to provide research, advice, and support to the UK Government. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Pathology Scientist to join our team.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide technical, scientific, laboratory, and administrative assistance within the Department of Pathology, ensuring compliance with relevant Safety, Quality, and Home Office standards.
  • Manage support staff working within containment facilities and the bio-archive, ensuring a safe and efficient working environment.
  • Perform specialist techniques to support surveillance and research within the TSE workgroup, including laboratory facility duties, temperature monitoring, and equipment maintenance.
  • Organize staff and laboratory resources to ensure the smooth and safe running of biocontainment facilities and preparation areas, in compliance with APHA and legislative policies.
  • Manage and provide support to Biological Archive audits, consolidation, and discards of diagnostic/research samples in ultra-low temperature freezers, and maintain freezer maintenance and capacity.
  • Maintain paper and electronic records, including data entry and recording of results using Microsoft computer-based sample management systems, local databases, or logbooks.
  • Assist with or perform laboratory techniques and tests conducted within Pathology, including molecular pathology and histopathological procedures, reagent & tissue preparation, and immunohistochemistry.
  • Prepare fixed tissue samples for long-term storage, archive formalin-fixed tissues and paraffin wax blocks, and file histology reference tissue slides.
  • Comply with lab waste management procedures and complete relevant documentation.
  • Support the HEO in maintaining the TSE QA Stocks database and associated tissue storage, TSE Proficiency Testing sample preparation, distribution of TSE Rapid Test and Western Blotting PT schemes.
  • Provide technical support, tissue sampling, and preservation expertise for post-mortem examinations on a range of livestock species in high biocontainment facilities (up to ACDP3/SAPO4).
  • Line and/or functional management of laboratory staff, supervision of students, visitors, and contractors within high-containment areas, as required.
  • Maintain knowledge of APHA's diversity policy and implement it within the team.
  • Manage laboratory equipment, including calibration, monitoring, and routine maintenance, and maintain and update local computer-based sample management systems in compliance with Quality accreditation.
  • Perform all duties in accordance with Pathology and Animal Sciences and APHA Safety and Quality Policies, including ISO17025, ISO9001, TSE NRL procedures.
  • Review, write/edit local SOPs, risk assessments, and participate in Quality and safety audits.
  • Perform Room Officer duties, ensuring the work environment is clean, tidy, and professionally managed, and deputize for the building officer as required.
  • Provide administrative support to TSE Surveillance and research projects, including analysis, preparation, and presentation of data, contribution to reports, and peer-reviewed publications.
Requirements
  • Experience and skills in communication, safety, health, and wellbeing, learning and development, and specialist competence.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, written and verbal communication skills, and experience of working in quality systems and to high safety standards.
  • Degree in biological/biomedical/bioveterinary science or relevant proven experience.
Benefits

The Animal and Plant Health Agency offers a competitive salary of £30,827, plus an additional £8,930 towards the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. We also offer generous annual leave, a generous employer contributory pension, staff bonuses and recognition, salary sacrifice benefit options, and an employee discount scheme, reward vouchers, and in-year bonuses.

We are committed to supporting the career and personal wellbeing of everyone in APHA. Our benefits include three paid volunteering days per year, access to Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7, providing advice and guidance on both personal and employment issues, and access to the Employee Assistance Programme, Occupational Health Service, and the Civil Service Sports Council.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and aim to create a workplace that is inclusive and respectful of all employees.