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Job requirements
Essential
17 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Other
Ability to work flexible hours including unsociable hours.
- Other
Willingness to travel across multiple sites
- Experience
Experience of processing biological samples such as Blood, Saliva, Stool in clinical trials laboratory
- Experience
Experience of performing a range of blood processing techniques to generate PBMCs, plasma, or serum within a clinical laboratory setting.
- Experience
Experience of working in Microbiological Safety Cabinet. BSL Class II
- Experience
Experience of working with patient data.
- Experience
Demonstration of accurate pipetting skills, centrifugation skills, Aliquoting skills
- Qualifications
Degree in a scientific/healthcare related discipline
- Qualifications
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Skills and aptitudes
Laboratory analytical skills
- Skills and aptitudes
Ability to work according to good clinical laboratory practices
- Skills and aptitudes
Ability to follow standard operating procedures accurately.
- Royal Free shared commitments
Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments.
- Personal Qualities & attributes
Displays a professional attitude towards colleagues, study PIs, clinical staff and others
- Personal Qualities & attributes
Flexible attitude to work, including the ability to take up new tasks when required
- Personal Qualities & attributes
Conscientious attitude to the finalisation of any given task
- Personal Qualities & attributes
Ability to problem solve and to work using own initiative
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job overview
We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic GCLP-Biobank Laboratory Coordinator who will be able to support a range of research active clinical teams within the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
The role holder will join Research and Development Sample Services (RADSS), one of the largest human sample research facilities in the NHS. RADSS brings together Tissue Access for Patient Benefit (TAPB), the Trust’s Research Tissue Bank (the RFL Biobank, which holds an HTA licence and operates under generic research ethics approval), and a processing laboratory. RADSS helps patients donate human biological samples, and gives researchers access to consented samples and linked, anonymised clinical data. The role holder will help partners to deliver high impact research within the UK and globally by liaise closely with clinical teams, clinical trials coordinators, researchers and patients on-site in Hampstead and across the RFL Groups Trusts: Barnet, Chase Farm, and North Middlesex University Hospital.
Main duties of the job
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The main purpose of this role is to assist with the collection and biological processing of clinical trial samples such as Blood, Biopsy, Saliva, Stool for clinical research purposes within the RFL R&D. The post holder will provide biological sample processing support to the R&D Clinical and externally contracted GCLP-Biobank studies to ensure that samples are 1) received/collected, 2) booked onto LIMS, 3) biologically processed and 4) shipped/stored in accordance with GCLP-Biobank and/or study specific SOPs and that all relevant HTA, ICH legislation and governance requirements are complied, and met. In addition, the appointee will assist in data collection, inputs into the Laboratory Information Management system (LIMS) as well as provide administrative support to the GCLP-Biobank Team and studies.
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This advert is for Band 5 GCLP-Biobank Laboratory Technician with Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Laboratory technician role. The advertised salary is £38,488 - £46,852 per annum. The contract type is 18 months (Fixed Term). The application deadline is 13 Nov 2026.
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