Research Support Assistant - Oxford, United Kingdom - University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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Oxford, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Contract type:
Fixed-term for 24 months

Hours:
Full-time

About the role

We are looking for a Research Support Assistant to work in the Oxford Centre for Histopathology Research (OCHRe) in the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS), based at the John Radcliffe Hospital, with occasional travelling required to the Churchill Hospital and Old Road Campus sites.

In this role you will be providing a high quality, comprehensive and professional service to support the processing of histopathology research requests, with particular focus on Oxford Cancer projects.

This role is available from the 1 April 2023 for a fixed-term of 24 months.

About you

The post-holder will be responsible for sourcing and auditing NHS consent forms to check whether or not patient histology samples can be used in research.

You will then need to ensure that approvals from custodians of samples are obtained before they are used in research, track and request histology samples and keep accurate records of histology samples from the time they are requested to the time they are returned to their long term storage location.

For this, you will be required to develop strong working relationships with many different colleagues across the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University, in order to locate and access consent records and histology.

You will also be required to enter and manipulate data in Excel and prepare histology slides for scanning. Attention to detail is crucial in performing these tasks.

Depending on workload, there may be other tasks assigned to you, however they will be commensurate with the grade.

You will need to hold an NHS Honorary Contract which we will organise, to enable you to check patient records.

Application Process
Interviews will be held on 31 January 2023.

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