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Experiences

Activities and responsibilities likely to be required when working at this level

Health & Safety responsibilities

• Complete routine equipment maintenance and repairs
• Liaise with suppliers and manufacturers to resolve simple problems
• Advise on equipment capabilities
• With the academic lead, establish and maintain a safe/compliant working environment
• Assist/complete and update routine safety paperwork (dependant on the risk owner)
• Hold specific safety responsibilities relevant to the area of work
• Organise and complete compliance tasks
• Maintain up-to-date health and safety knowledge, providing support and advice to others

Core responsibilities

• Ensure effective delivery of objectives by planning and managing own workload
• Assist the academic lead with the day-to-day running and supervision of laboratory spaces
• Allocate work to one or more members of technical staff
• Work collaboratively to deliver objectivesÌý
• Contribute to progress and management meetingsÌý
• Manage a small budget, monitoring resource usage and maintaining supplies of key items
• Assist with stores operations including ordering, receiving, processing, and distributing goods
• Source and negotiate with suppliers for routine items
• Provide a high standard of teaching support, including preparing for classes and field work
• Provide support to students through tuition
• Prepare and deliver tutorials to studentsÌý
• Support taught course projects by contributing to experimental design and data acquisition
• Prepare and manufacture a range of simple specimens/samples
• Report infrastructure faults and support small-scale building works
• Manage equipment bookings, calculate charges/costs, and assist with re-charging
• Update and deliver local inductions
• Provide training and demonstrations of techniques and equipment
• Take responsibility for the successful delivery of assigned laboratory classesÌý
• Share skills and best practice
• Manage arising issues with a solution-focused attitude
• Manage the maintenance of machinery and equipment as required
• Contribute to risk assessments
• Write standard operating procedures
• Manage the Laboratory Efficient Assessment Framework (LEAF) award application

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Personal and professional development

Development options to consider when working towards this level

Learning on the job

• Provide detailed written and verbal feedback to studentsÌý
• Explore opportunities to take on acting-up duties

Learning from othersÌýÌý

• Join special interest groups, and/or network groups to learn about best practice in other areas of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº, as well as external groups to learn about other organisations and sectors
• Join a Community of PracticeÌý
• Attend conferences
• Develop understanding of people and lab management by shadowing and covering for senior technicians

Formal learning

• Attend Health and safety training
• Relevant training through Higher Education and Technician Educational Development (HEaTED)
• Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy – Advance HE via ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Arena Centre
• Specialist instrument training as required
• Apply for training through a mid-career apprenticeship programme
• Accreditation/certification from a recognised professional body

Transferable skills and competencies

¹û¶³Ó°Ôº uses the Universal Competency Framework (UCF) to discuss transferable skills. Find out moreÌýdetails on the framework.

Applying expertise and technology

• Applying technical expertise
• Building technical expertise
• Sharing expertise
• Using technology resources
• Demonstrating physical and manual skills
• Demonstrating cross-functional awareness
• Demonstrating spatial awareness.

Working with people

• Understanding others
• Adapting to the team
• Building team spirit
• Recognising and rewarding contributions
• Listening
• Consulting others
• Communicating proactively
• Showing tolerance and consideration
• Showing empathy
• Supporting others
• Caring for others
• Developing and communicating self-knowledge and insight

Presenting and communicating information

• Speaking fluently
• Explaining concepts and opinions
• Articulating key points of an argument. Presenting and public speaking
• Projecting credibility
• Responding to an audience

¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Ways of Working

These describe expected behaviours in line with ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº culture and values.Ìý For Ways of Working indicators and steps to development please refer to theÌýWays of Working website.Ìý