Laboratory Assistant

Title: Laboratory Assistant

Pay rate: £13 per hour

Location: Abingdon

Duration: December 2025

Type: On-site

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Main duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Preparation of hair and oral fluid samples for analysis, within agreed timeframes
• Ensuring all equipment used is within current specifications including calibration and maintenance requirements
• Accurate data entry, including relevant scanning and archiving
• Logging 'discrepancy' samples and liaising with Customer Services to resolves any issues efficiently and promptly
• Sample logging, storage and disposal
• Adherence to quality systems
• Carrying out tasks as directed by the Accessioning Manager and to feedback any problems, working to assist in their resolution
• Continued participation in training programmes across Laboratory Operations to develop themselves and to increase their breadth of understanding of the function of Operations as a whole

In addition to the above, the role of the laboratory assistant may also extend to include responsibilities such as:

• Laboratory maintenance
• Laboratory cleanliness and maintenance of a safe and pleasant work environment
• Basic systems maintenance
• Assistance in the preparation of Risk Assessments

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS | EDUCATION:

• To be educated to GCSE level (including English)

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Competent in data entry

COMPETENCIES:

• Excellent attention to detail
• Keen interest in understanding principal of processes
• Is dynamic and tenacious
• Shows accountability and demonstrates ownership of their world
• Able to function well as an individual or as part of a team
• Able to take ownership of own work, awareness of when to solve a problem themselves or to ask their manager for help
• Conform with appropriate safety standards under The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
• Work in accordance with the current documented Standard Operating Procedures. Concateno UK is an ISO 9001 and ISO 17025 certified laboratory.

Randstad Business Support is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.