Histopathology Technician

Department/Location: Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, UK

Salary: £27,057-£32,277

Reference: PS06462

Closing date: 30 July 2015

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 12 months in the first instance.

The Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute draws together outstanding researchers from 25 stem cell laboratories in Cambridge to form a world-leading centre for stem cell biology and medicine. Scientists in the Institute collaborate to generate new knowledge and understanding of the biology of stem cells and provide the foundation for new medical treatments.

Applications are invited from enthusiastic, self-motivated, adaptable histopathology technician, to provide a high quality histopathology research resource, which processes and evaluates human and mouse tissues including embryos for the Institute’s research staff, researchers within the University and organisations outside the University.

You will have worked in a histopathology/immunohistochemistry research laboratory in an academic or industry setting and be a medical laboratory scientist with a degree or equivalent in biological or medical science. You must have a proven background with sound practical knowledge and experience in histopathological techniques and immunohistochemistry and experience with in situ hybridisation would be desirable. Experience of tissue microarrays would be an asset.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day organisation of the service; as lead histologist you will allocate work to the junior histology staff, monitoring the quality of the work produced. You should have demonstrable experience of producing sections from frozen and paraffin wax materials. Many research projects involve experimental tumour models that require histological and/or cytological processing, including immuno-histochemistry, in situ hybridisation, enzyme histochemistry and special stains.

You will advise service users on all aspects of histological techniques, develop and improve existing protocols to suit the service users’ requirements, and assist with the preliminary interpretation of results. You will be responsible for training users, and technical staff in histological techniques. You will be responsible for ensuring that the Institute complies with the Human Tissue Act requirements.

You should have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, a professional attitude, be able to work as part of a team and have a pleasant and helpful manner, an eye for detail and able to be patient, both with users and with the work undertaken.

You must be able to work independently and efficiently within a team and be able to prioritise the workload. Technical and/or line managerial experience would be desirable.

Be familiar with the standard Microsoft office package and have experience of image handling/output software and experience with database entry portals.

To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please visit: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/7417. This will take you to the role on the University’s Job Opportunities pages. There you will need to click on the ‘Apply online’ button and register an account with the University’s Web Recruitment System (if you have not already) and log in before completing the online application form.

The closing date for all applications is Thursday 30 July 2015.

Informal enquiries about the post are also welcome via email on cscrjobs@cscr.cam.ac.uk.

Interviews will be held towards the middle of August 2015. If you have not been invited for interview by 10 August 2015, you have not been successful on this occasion.

Please quote reference PS06462 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

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