International Biomedical jobs

453387

£40,224 - £45,545

This role may benefit from our new skill-set allowance. If you possess a specialist skill-set required at Dstl, you may benefit from additional monetary allowance in addition to your salary – a handy bonus for your craft! (£1,000-£4,500 per annum). This allowance is payable just 3-months from joining.

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Permanent

CDO - S&T Delivery - Human & Biological Advantage

Science

Flexible working, Full-time, Compressed hours

1

Dstl Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 0JQ

At Dstl, our vision is to have a modern way of working efficiently, accommodating and enabling our people to create, collaborate and deliver.

To do this successfully in this job will require attendance at a Dstl location; Government Departments including wider MoD or Delivery and Mission Partner’s premises for 80% of your working time.

Where business needs allow, and with the agreement of your line manager, there may be the option for a combination of workplace and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement.

We are looking for a self-motivated, hardworking individual to work with and advise scientists across the CBR Programme and to collaborate with external organisations.

You will be involved in research projects ranging from fundamental through to applied research.

In addition to the research remit, the post will also support both the development and maintenance of an operational framework, which includes participation in proficiency test exercises and supporting operational sample analysis and attribution.

Dstl recognises the importance of diversity and inclusion as people from diverse backgrounds bring fresh ideas. We are committed to building an inclusive working environment in which each employee fulfils their potential and maximises their contribution.

We require a senior computational biologist to support the development of genomic and metagenomic analysis pipelines and methods to identify and characterise high consequence pathogens. This will include addressing research challenges posed by current and emerging pathogens, as well as implementing improvements to our current methods.

In this role you will support research activities across various projects within the Science and Technology (S&T) team. You will be designing and applying bioinformatics pipelines to analyse sequence data from various experimental platforms.

You will also develop bioinformatics methods for implementation into in service software.

For more information on the job responsibilities, please see the job profile attached below.

You will have a consistent track record of research outcomes in computational biology as well as having experience of working within scientific research environment.

You will have experience in presenting complex scientific findings to diverse audiences along with having experience with computational biology/bioinformatics tools.

For more information on the essential criteria for the job, please see the job profile attached below.

Important Information

Our work in defence, security and intelligence requires our employees to be UK Nationals who are able to gain a high level of security clearance to undertake the projects we are involved in to protect us from security threats. For this reason, only UK Nationals will be able to apply for this role. If you are an international or dual-national candidate, and you think you have the skills we need, please consider applying to any of our government, security or defence partners.

This role will require full Developed Vetting will also be required, in this case you should have resided in the UK for the past 10 years.

Graduate degree in biological sciences, biomedical sciences, bioinformatics or a related field

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Please give an example of where you have used your computational biology skills to carry out a scheme of work in order to answer a hypothesis as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Alongside your salary of £40,224, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory contributes £11,652 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

Benefits

Dstl’s full range of great benefits can be found in the information pack which includes:

• Financial: An excellent pension scheme starting from 26% employer contribution (find out more here). In Year Rewarding Achievement bonuses and thank you vouchers. Rental deposit scheme and cycle to work scheme.

• Flexible working: Options include alternative working patterns such as; compressed hours, job shares and annualised hours (agreed number of hours per annum paid monthly i.e. working term-time only).

• Working hours: Flexibility around your working day (e.g. start time, finish time). Ability to bank hours in a 12 month reference period including the ability to accrue and use 3 days per calendar month.

• Annual leave: 25 days pro rata (rising to 30 after 5 years) plus 8 public holidays with the ability to buy/sell 5 additional days per annum.

• Family: Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks with full pay, an additional 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid

• Learning and Development: Dstl encourages and supports charterships, accreditations and provides employees access to fully funded apprenticeships up to level 7 (Masters Degree). Dstl will pay for 2 memberships with relevant bodies/institutions. Employees also have access to Civil Service Learning.

• Facilities: Onsite parking, EV Charging points, restaurants, cafés and gyms.

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Open to UK nationals only.

This job is not open to candidates who hold a dual nationality.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

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Job contact :

• Name : Dstl Recruitment Team
• Email : dstlrecruitment@dstl.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : dstlrecruitment@dstl.gov.uk