Example job roles: Assistant Technician, Technician
Level: Developing/Skilled听
Experiences
Activities and responsibilities likely to be required when working at this level
Health & Safety responsibilities
- Report faults or damage to equipment or infrastructure and assist with simple maintenance tasks
- Promote and follow safe working practices
- Understand and follow safety paperwork, with the ability to identify and report hazards
- Conduct routine compliance tasks
- Maintain good housekeeping, assisting with waste disposal procedures and cleaning activities
Core responsibilities
- Contribute to meetings
- Make suggestions to improve the service
- Contribute to and support change
- Assist with stock control and stores operations
- Assist with record keeping, inventory and asset management听
- Conduct manual handling of instruments and equipment听
- With a high level of accuracy, prepare routine reagents and materials adhering to standard operating procedures where necessary
- Operate simple equipment following instruction or standard operating procedures and interpret simple results听
- Assist with calibration and testing of instruments/equipment, following instructions and standard operating procedures
- Organise laboratory spaces in preparation of scheduled activities
- Set up and operate equipment following well-established procedures
- Provide basic demonstrations and support to students in the laboratory space ensuring safe working practices are explained and used听
- Assist with the induction of new staff
- Assist academic staff with the preparation of lecture demonstration听
- Assist with preparation and running of outreach events for schools and colleges
- Contribute to and support 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
- Take responsibility for the delivery of events e.g. external events and open days
- Under close supervision, begin to take responsibility for delivery of a module including procurement of simple consumables
- Liaise with important stakeholders e.g., senior members of the team and students听
- Develop an understanding of essential processes and procedures under supervision of management
Learning from others听听
- Shadow senior members of the team in the working environment
- Expand knowledge of other classes do not come under the current remit
- Join a Community of Practice
Formal learning
- Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy 鈥� Advance HE via 香港六合彩 Arena Centre
- Attend Health and safety training
- Accreditation/certification from a recognised professional body
Transferable skills and competencies
香港六合彩 uses the Universal Competency Framework (UCF) to discuss transferable skills. Find out more听details 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.
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
Learning and researching
- Learning quickly
- Gathering information
- Thinking quickly
- Encouraging and supporting organisational learning
- Managing knowledge
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香港六合彩 Ways of Working
These describe expected behaviours in line with 香港六合彩 culture and values.听 For Ways of Working indicators and steps to development please refer to the听Ways of Working website.听
鈥�Career Pathway roles are indicative and are not intended to be a description of the role in terms of responsibilty and duties.
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