Biological Safety Specialist

Location: The Francis Crick Institute, Midland Road, London

Short summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join this high-profile organisation and to help shape the future direction in health and safety.

The Biological Safety Specialist will assist the LBSS on tasks related to managing the Biosafety team to ensure it supports cutting edge science by monitoring and advising on biological, health, safety and regulatory compliance issues, specifically working with Crick members and other stakeholders. This role will support in the delivery of the H&S Strategy for Biological safety, oversee and advise when required, on the management and operation of the Containment 2, 3 and 4 facilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist with setting work priorities and objectives for the Biosafety team, under the advice of the LBSS.
• Support and promote best practice in biological safety.
• Work with the Biosafety team to provide professional, efficient and effective support to science Group Leaders, Laboratory Research Scientists, Heads of Science Technology Platforms, the Service Delivery Team and other operational services.
• Periodically attend the Biological and GM committee meetings and ensure it fulfils the terms of reference, when required.
• Be a point of escalation, providing generalist and specialist advice across the Institute, particularly within the research groups and science support teams.
• Working closely with the LBSS to devise and deliver the biological safety management system, by identifying, planning, implementing policies and procedures as delivered by the Biosafety Team.
• Act as subject matter expert, advising the Institute of best practices for biological safety, overseeing some operations of biological facilities at containment levels 2, 3 and 4.
• Lead in the delivery of timely investigations of accidents and incidents, ensuring root causes are identified, that lessons are learnt and that appropriate measures are implemented.
• Lead audits and inspections, working risk owners to take action and mitigate risk.

About us

The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.

An independent organisation, its founding partners are the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL, Imperial College London and King’s College London.

The Crick was formed in 2015, and in 2016 it moved into a new state-of-the-art building in central London which brings together 1500 scientists and support staff working collaboratively across disciplines, making it the biggest biomedical research facility under in one building in Europe.

The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; developing emerging talent and exporting it the rest of the UK; public engagement; and helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy.

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