Job ID: 432034686
Job date: 2017-08-25
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Company : Agenda Resource Management Ltd Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job date: 2017-08-25
End Date:
Company : Agenda Resource Management Ltd Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job Description:
On behalf of our client, a leading precision oncology services laboratory and contract research organisation, we are looking to recruit a Clinical Scientist to support a small team and Lead Clinical Scientist. This position would suit someone who has a technical background in a clinical laboratory and who is now looking to pursue a data analysis role. Basic Requirements:
Additional Info:
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 full and comprehensive background and pre-employment screening as an essential part of the recruitment process. We specialise in life science recruitment, permanent and contract and research facility management and consultancy services. Agenda delivers a consistently outstanding life science staffing service for clients and candidates alike. We have built up a wealth of specialist expertise, networks and databases in the animal technology, biomedical and scientific sector enabling us to deliver the following solutions to research facility resource issues: • Life Science Recruitment • Permanent & Temporary Recruitment • Contract Recruitment • Facility Management • Careers advice and guidance • Recruitment training Agenda has three key values, Respect, Reputation and Responsibility; these are underpinned by four externally audited standards and are managed from Secured by Design offices. We are externally audited and hold the following certifications ISO27001 (Information Security Management), ISO9001 (Quality Management), ISO14001 (Environmental), The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) The professional body for the recruitment industry in the UK and Investors in People (IIP). Agenda supports the research community through the provision of services aimed at facilitating research. We believe that whilst animal research continues to make a valuable contribution to scientific understand and the development of medical treatments, the animals should be treated with dignity and respect at all times. Building on our support for the research community we have we developed our WELFARE FIRST programme. Our Welfare First programme has been developed to recognise the importance of welfare within the life sciences sector and to meet the aims of its position statement. Animal welfare is a priority, but so is the welfare of the dedicated people working with the animals and also the welfare of the life science sector itself. Watch our short introduction video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF-AIji5M0A[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
On behalf of our client, a leading precision oncology services laboratory and contract research organisation, we are looking to recruit a Clinical Scientist to support a small team and Lead Clinical Scientist. This position would suit someone who has a technical background in a clinical laboratory and who is now looking to pursue a data analysis role. Basic Requirements:
- Basic knowledge about molecular biology and genomics
- An understanding of the principals of DNA sequence analysis, especially both Next-generation
- Experience in the identification of genetic variants associated with disease and the downstream analysis of these data
- Familiar with commonly used databases and bioinformatics tools for NGS data analysis (eg. bedtools, samtools, IGV, SIFT, UCSC Genome Browser, etc.)
- Experience of data management and processing, in a healthcare setting with a demonstration of sensitivity to issues of confidentiality and knowledge of the Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information Act.
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, including presentation and report writing skills.
- Assist the Lead Clinical Scientist in the interpretation of clinical NGS data and the construction of clinical reports.
- Monitor the quality of data produced by next generation sequencing and other technologies, to ensure it meets the standards required for the diagnostic service.
- Help maintain and improve the analysis pipeline for Next Generation Sequencing data for the Molecular Diagnostic Profiling Service.
- Aid in maintaining the databases for storage of scientific and clinical information, diagnostic test results, etc, and to establish links for submission to external databases where appropriate.
- Be responsible for ensuring the Laboratory complies with all requirements of Data Protection, liaising with the IT Governance as required.
- Write and contribute to the writing of publications.
- Contribute to and maintain Quality Management System procedures within the Molecular Diagnostics Profiling Unit.
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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 full and comprehensive background and pre-employment screening as an essential part of the recruitment process. We specialise in life science recruitment, permanent and contract and research facility management and consultancy services. Agenda delivers a consistently outstanding life science staffing service for clients and candidates alike. We have built up a wealth of specialist expertise, networks and databases in the animal technology, biomedical and scientific sector enabling us to deliver the following solutions to research facility resource issues: • Life Science Recruitment • Permanent & Temporary Recruitment • Contract Recruitment • Facility Management • Careers advice and guidance • Recruitment training Agenda has three key values, Respect, Reputation and Responsibility; these are underpinned by four externally audited standards and are managed from Secured by Design offices. We are externally audited and hold the following certifications ISO27001 (Information Security Management), ISO9001 (Quality Management), ISO14001 (Environmental), The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) The professional body for the recruitment industry in the UK and Investors in People (IIP). Agenda supports the research community through the provision of services aimed at facilitating research. We believe that whilst animal research continues to make a valuable contribution to scientific understand and the development of medical treatments, the animals should be treated with dignity and respect at all times. Building on our support for the research community we have we developed our WELFARE FIRST programme. Our Welfare First programme has been developed to recognise the importance of welfare within the life sciences sector and to meet the aims of its position statement. Animal welfare is a priority, but so is the welfare of the dedicated people working with the animals and also the welfare of the life science sector itself. Watch our short introduction video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF-AIji5M0A[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]