Higher Education Technician Apprentice (Fixed Term)

at  University of Cambridge

The Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience (PDN) is seeking an enthusiastic Higher Education Technician Apprentice from September 2024. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team at the University of Cambridge.
The Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience delivers over half of the teaching requirements for the first two years of the Medicine and Veterinary Medicine courses, as well as three large courses available to first and second year science students following the Natural Sciences Tripos at Cambridge. All of these undergraduate courses involve hands-on practical experimental work by the students in the Department’s four teaching classrooms. The Apprentice will be part of the Departmental Teaching team, who provide technical support for teaching and research, and will study the Education Technician Level 3 qualification.
You will be a great team player who has good organisation and time management skills. The successful candidate will have good communication and interpersonal skills, as well as good attention to detail. Due to the nature of this role, the role holder should have a good level of physical fitness.

• Assist in the preparation of classrooms, including setting up equipment and teaching materials, clearing up, documenting student activities.
• Safely demonstrate to students how to operate simple and more complex equipment or a techniques.
• Collection of data, documentation and resources.
• Maintenance of learning spaces, to ensure health & safety protocols are followed.
• Undertake and maintain stock control including the management of stock records, procurement, equipment inventory, safe receipt, delivery, handling and storage of goods and consumables.
• Generation and maintenance of risk assessments, standard operating procedures and COSHH forms.
• Monitor air quality.
• Care of preserved ‘prosected’ tissue used for teaching.
• Organise and catalogue dry learning materials, radiographs, museum pots, bones, plastinated specimens and online resources.
• Museum curation, with a focus on student accessibility.
• Learn about the general workings of a University.