Laboratory Technician - Microbiology
| Posting date: | 21 May 2026 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 June 2026 |
| Location: | Preston, Lancashire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | University of Lancashire |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 0407-26 |
Summary
When you work for the University of Lancashire, you’ll be part of a thriving community of talent that’s united in a common commitment to transform lives. We do this by delivering an outstanding educational experience and creating prosperity and opportunity in the communities we serve. Whatever your role, you’ll be playing a vital part in helping us achieve our vision.
About the role:
The University of Lancashire wishes to recruit a Laboratory Technician to join our Microbiology team who will provide support to the wide variety of laboratories and clinical skills areas at our Preston campus. The successful candidate will be primarily focussed on supporting undergraduate and postgraduate courses in our laboratory facilities.
Duties will include supervising staff, procurement, carrying out risk assessments and other relevant Health & Safety polices and procedures, providing day to day technical support, training and giving advice to staff and to students studying Microbiology.
About you:
The successful candidate will have recent experience of working in Microbiology laboratory environments, along with practical skills in scientific laboratory techniques relating to microbiology including aseptic technique and plate pouring.
A degree of manual handling may be involved e.g. lifting and carrying clinical equipment such as high fidelity mannequins and the moving of hospital beds.
For this role you must have a level 3 qualification, such as A Levels or BTEC, in a relevant area, or appropriate equivalent experiential learning.
A flexible approach is required to weekly working patterns due to the student timetable.
Applicants need to meet all essential criteria on the person specification to be considered for interview. This position is based in Preston.
Use of AI in applications: We want to understand your genuine interest in the role and artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application. However, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience and the written elements of your application should accurately reflect your own communication style. Applications that rely too heavily on AI tools can appear generic and lack the detail we need to assess your skills and experience.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
About the role:
The University of Lancashire wishes to recruit a Laboratory Technician to join our Microbiology team who will provide support to the wide variety of laboratories and clinical skills areas at our Preston campus. The successful candidate will be primarily focussed on supporting undergraduate and postgraduate courses in our laboratory facilities.
Duties will include supervising staff, procurement, carrying out risk assessments and other relevant Health & Safety polices and procedures, providing day to day technical support, training and giving advice to staff and to students studying Microbiology.
About you:
The successful candidate will have recent experience of working in Microbiology laboratory environments, along with practical skills in scientific laboratory techniques relating to microbiology including aseptic technique and plate pouring.
A degree of manual handling may be involved e.g. lifting and carrying clinical equipment such as high fidelity mannequins and the moving of hospital beds.
For this role you must have a level 3 qualification, such as A Levels or BTEC, in a relevant area, or appropriate equivalent experiential learning.
A flexible approach is required to weekly working patterns due to the student timetable.
Applicants need to meet all essential criteria on the person specification to be considered for interview. This position is based in Preston.
Use of AI in applications: We want to understand your genuine interest in the role and artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application. However, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience and the written elements of your application should accurately reflect your own communication style. Applications that rely too heavily on AI tools can appear generic and lack the detail we need to assess your skills and experience.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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