We are recruiting for a Research Scientist to join a global contract research organisation providing discovery, preclinical and translational platforms and services to advance oncology and immune-oncology.

The Research Scientist will perform procedures for client and internal research in strict compliance with welfare, legislative, health and safety requirements and company SOP’s/policies.

Basic Requirements:

• Animal handling and husbandry.
• Welfare assessment  including the use of appropriate terms for the recording of clinical signs.
• Basic skills including dosing, tissue sample  collection and blood sampling.
• Record keeping.
• Understand aseptic techniques.
• Minimum of 5 GCSE level education, A level or BTEC in Animal Care.
• Experience of animal models.
• Personal Licence holder – preferably A-C.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• To have competency in a range of basic techniques such as dosing, sampling and post op checks.
• Early detection of signs of ill health /loss of condition via clinical observations.
• Understand the current expectations of Home Office Legislation.
• Knowledge of relevant methods of humane killing listed in ASPA schedule 1.
• Support the system to ensure that a competent person sees and checks every animal at least once daily.
• Understand the main provisions of projects licences.
• Understand the culture of care at your establishment.
• To be responsible for appropriate records.
• May support training on experimental procedures.

Agenda and its clients only recruit people who are passionate about animal care and welfare, people with integrity who are honest and trustworthy and who have a great work ethic.  To enable us to hire the very best people, we will conduct a comprehensive background and pre-employment screening, an essential part of Agenda's recruitment process.