Molecular Therapy Assistant

Job summary

If you are looking for the chance to develop your knowledge in a fast-paced environment, then you will excel with us. On a day-to-day basis, you will be managing and maintaining stocks but you can expect to handle anything from cleaning and preparing the MHRA regulated clean rooms, through to completing temperature mapping. Across the team, we are committed to helping each other learn, so you will train less experienced colleagues, and you will be keen to support colleagues in their duties. This will include rejecting samples that are unsuitable for testing, checking sample data and results, and reporting non-conforming results and products. Crucially you will be keen suggest and assist with implementing improvements, so you will suggest ways in which we can enhance our service, products and processes.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be responsible for: - Work as part of a team in a varied role and reporting to the Head of Manufacturing at the Clinical Biotechnology Centre Participate in the work of the Clinical Biotechnology Centre performing a range of technical and scientific activities in a defined area in support of GMP production for manufacture of advance therapies such as gene therapy products (plasmid DNA, viral vectors). Provide support for the GMP MHRA regulated laboratories to a high specification and trained in clean room activities such as cleaning, stock management, receipting of goods, clean room environmental monitoring, temperature mapping, calibration activities and preparation of reagents and materials for GMP production Willing to provide cover in times of operational difficulty, with reasonable notice.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.