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Laboratory Technician/Instructor

Laboratory Technician/Instructor

Sparsholt College

Sparsholt, Winchester, Hampshire

  • Expired
Salary:
£16,776 - £20,595 (pro rata if part-time) (Depending on qualifications and experience)
Job type:
Part Time, Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
26 February 2018

Job overview

Full or Part-time and Job Share applications considered 


£16,776 - £20,595 (pro rata if part-time) (Depending on qualifications and experience)  


An experienced Laboratory Technician is required to support the running of 5 busy Labs used for FE and HE teaching. You will be required to provide technical support to lecturers, provide support for HE students with sample analysis, deliver training to teaching staff and support the preparation and effective use of the laboratories on a daily basis.   


Our well equipped laboratories will require you to have experience in a range of the following techniques; 

• Microbiology and Bacteriology 

• Microscopy  

• Nutritional analysis including bomb calorimetry, electro-spectrophotometry and atomic absorption.  

• PCR, Electrophoresis and ELISA. 

• Thin layer Chromatography. 

• Blood, Urine and Faecal analysis. 

• Kjeldahl digestion and Acid detergent fibre analysis.   


Whilst the position is full-time, we would welcome job share applicants and would also consider applicants who wished to work on a substantial part-time basis.  Please outline in your application if you are applying on a part-time or job share basis and if so how many hours you wish to work.  


This post is based at the Sparsholt (Winchester) campus  


Closing Date: 26 February 2018  


College Benefits:  

• Eligibility to join the Local Government Pension Scheme (a defined benefit pension scheme) 

• Death Benefit grant of 3 x salary if in the pension scheme 

• Free on-site parking 

• Car Share Scheme 

• Occupational Sick Pay Scheme 

• Occupational Maternity Pay Scheme 

• Flexible Working Policy 

• Holiday entitlement of 22/23 days (rising to 25 days after 5 years’ service) plus Public and Bank Holidays along with college closure days at Xmas.  

• Ability to Purchase Additional Annual Leave via a salary sacrifice arrangement  

• Access to an employee assistance scheme 

• On-site gym at the Sparsholt campus (membership £100 per annum) 

• You Make the Difference Staff nomination scheme 

• Facility to purchase Sparsholt produce including: plants, flowers, fruit & vegetables, fish, venison and turkey. 

• Access to discounted hair and beauty treatments at the Andover campus 

• Discounted admission to Marwell Zoo 

• Ability to access a range of CPD events and support with undertaking professional qualifications 

• Various food outlets and eateries offering good value food and drink at competitive prices  

There is a nursery on the Sparsholt campus operated by a commercial provider

About Sparsholt College

+44 1962 776441

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What’s in a name? 

Sparsholt College takes its name from the parish of Sparsholt in which it is situated and the neighbouring village. 

Pronounced “Spar - sholt” (not “Spars - holt”), the name derives from two old English words: 

Spar - a straight timber for making spears,roof timbers, etc. 

Holt - an area of managed woodland. 

Thus, rural industry, reflected in the local name, continues to be taught and promoted in its modern forms by the 
College today. 

History 

Hampshire County Council was the fourth in England to commit bricks and mortar to agricultural training and the county’s first Farm School was opened in November 1899 at Old Basing, near Basingstoke.
Its aim was “to provide instruction in the science and practice of agriculture and gardening, but particularly to make the practical side approach as nearly as possible to business conditions, consistent with educational purposes and to provide a centre for domestic work in the county”. 

In September 1914, the Farm School was transferred to the 400 acre (158 ha) Westley Farm at Sparsholt, specially bought for the purpose by the County Council. Staff and students made do with huts, barns and Westley farmhouse until 1926, when a new College building (now the administrative centre) was opened.
Numbers of students remained in the 30’s and 40’s for many years, with the development of farm and horticultural buildings in line with modern practice of the times. 

Between 1970 and the present time, other College educational buildings have developed to accommodate a rapid growth in student numbers as the breadth of land-based subjects was expanded and the depth of academic progression reflected up to six levels of course qualifications. 

Higher Education at the College began in 1983, with the introduction of an HND in Fishery Studies. Since then, HE courses have multiplied. The College is directly funded for its Higher Education courses, not as a subsidiary of university-based courses. 

In common with all colleges of further education, the College became independent from the County Council in 1993 and is now funded, for FE courses, from central government through the Learning and Skills Council. 

The present day College has excellent teaching and training facilities both for theory and practical classes. A superb library and four computer suites reflects the need to keep pace with new methods of learning, while recent construction of superb new training resources (see individual sections’ facilities) keep pace with rapidly developing industrial technology. 

More than 1,400 full-time students and 6,000 part-time enrolments have increased the demand for new teaching space and, to this end, the Sainsbury building, incorporating classrooms, lecture theatre and laboratories was opened in December 2000. 

Many students use the highly developed residential, social and sports facilities at the College (over 400 single study rooms on site most of which are en-suite). Over its 100+ year history, Sparsholt College has become one of the largest colleges of its kind in the country and, with highly rated educational standards, one of the best regarded.
As with all Further and Higher Education institutions, Sparsholt College is subject to government standards and inspection processes. 

Graded results from the last three inspection reports and recently awarded Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) status show the College to be in the highest league and should give every prospective student full confidence in the quality of their course provision. 

A reputation alone does not “make” a college, nor do familiar buildings and top class resources; it is also the commitment of a dedicated staff and the motivation of the students which contribute to that “something special” which is Sparsholt College.
 

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