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Research Practitioner
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**UE05 £24,285 - £27,929 per annum**
**College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine/ Deanery of Clinical Sciences/ Centre for Cardiovascular Science**
**Fixed-term/ Full-time (35 hours per week)
**The Opportunity**:
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic individual to join a multi-disciplinary team within CVS to support research studies and clinical trials in pregnant women and their babies. You will have an essential role working with the research midwives and the wider team to recruit to and assist in the running of a pilot birth cohort study ‘Born in Scotland in the 2020s’, and for other clinical and research studies within the wider Edinburgh Pregnancy Research Team
**Your Skills and Attributes for Success**:
- Education to HNC/HND plus relevant experience
- Phlebotomy skills
- Effective interpersonal skills; ability to rapidly build and maintain positive relationships with a wide range of people
- Ability to work unsupervised and use initiative to resolve problems
- Good organisation and time-management skills, ability to plan and prioritise workload
- IT competence (Microsoft Office)
Click **here **for a copy of the full job description
**What Working at Edinburgh University Offers**:
We offer an exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
**Right to Work**
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages.
The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant.
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
The Deanery of Clinical Sciences (Head, Professor Hilary Critchley) has an international reputation in clinical based research through the combination of basic, clinical and translational science and epidemiological studies, and as a part of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, offers unparalleled opportunities for ground-breaking interdisciplinary research in the bio-medical sciences.
The Deanery comprises 5 interdisciplinary Research Centres: the University of Edinburgh/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences (Director, Professor Andy Baker), the Centre for Inflammation Research (Director, Professor David Dockrell), the Centre for Regenerative Medicine (Director, Professor Stuart Forbes), the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences (Director, Professor Siddharthan Chandran), the MRC Centre for Reproductive Health (Co-Directors, Professor Richard Anderson and Professor Hilary Critchley); as well as the Edinburgh Imaging Facility (Director, Professor Dave Newby) the Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility (Director, Professor Dave Newby) and the Edinburgh Dental Institute (Director, Professor Angus Walls).
Clinical Sciences employs around 1000 members of academic and support staff and has over 550 Honorary members who contribute significantly to teaching and research. The Deanery is a major contributor to the undergraduate MBChB curriculum and has approximately 1000 registered post graduate students studying a range of PhD, MD, taught and research MSc and on-line distance learning programmes. The Deanery can be found at the Bioquarter Campus (Queen’s Medical Research Institute, Chancellor’s Building, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine and the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People), the Lauriston Building, Lauriston Place, the Western General Hospital and the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
In the most recent UK Research Assessment Exercise, Medicine was ranked in the top 5 for the whole of the UK.
