Laboratory Technician Apprentice - Immunocore
Cogent Ssc Limited
Abingdon (OX14 4RY)
Closes in 19 days (Friday 7 November 2025)
Posted on 17 October 2025
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Summary
If you are keen to start a career in science, Immunocore is looking to recruit a Laboratory Technician. You will help support the team by performing a variety of technical support functions across the organisation.
- Wage
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£22,000 a year
- Training course
- Laboratory technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 15 January 2026
- Duration
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2 years 3 months
- Positions available
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Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Main Purpose of Job:
The primary purpose for the incumbent in this role is to support scientists by working on assignments that are semi-routine in nature, recognizing the need for occasional deviation from accepted practices such as:
- Maintaining laboratory stocks (such as aliquoting cell culture reagents, consumables etc.)
- Ensuring smooth day-to-day operations
Assisting in maintaining lab equipment, records, and safety protocols
While errors may result in delays and minor cost impacts, the role normally follows established procedures for routine work and requires instructions for new assignments. The individual works under general supervision.
Key Responsibilities:
- Help keeping the labs safe, clean, and well-stocked.
- Run pre-established experimental procedures, generate and analyse data with guidance from managers or colleagues.
- Prepare communal laboratory reagents and biological samples.
- Stock control, purchasing, and timely distribution of lab reagents and consumables.
- Oversee maintenance and servicing of lab equipment and report faults.
- Perform general laboratory housekeeping tasks, including waste disposal and treatment.
- Maintain laboratory glassware.
- Maintain accurate and timely records of completed work.
Where you'll work
91 Park Drive
Milton Park, Milton
Abingdon
OX14 4RY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
COGENT SSC LIMITED
Training course
Laboratory technician (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Comply with health and safety policies and procedures including HASWA, COSHH, risk assessments, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), manual handling, emergency procedures.
- Maintain excellent housekeeping, in accordance with organisation Standard Procedures
- Order and control stocks of laboratory materials where required
- Identify, organise and use resources effectively to complete tasks applying the concepts of resource efficiency e.g energy, water and waste
- Adhere to internal and external regulatory requirements e.g. GLP, GMP, GDP
- Prepare for, and perform, laboratory experiments, tests or tasks following any specified methodologies to provide reliable, accurate data e.g. weighing, pipetting, filtering, spectroscopic techniques, chromatography techniques
- Demonstrate technical competence in the use of specified instruments and equipment
- Report faults and seek diagnostic advice to maintain equipment in good working order, including calibration where required
- Complete documentation proficiently
- Keep accurate records of laboratory work undertaken and results
- Contribute to the preparation of reports.
- Use simple statistical techniques for data presentation and evaluation e. g calculation of median and standard deviation, production of graphs
- Demonstrate problem solving techniques including identification of sources of error and how they can be reduced e.g. human error
- Use standard software packages and applications e.g. Microsoft Office suite
- Use Laboratory Information Management systems to support their work
- Address non-routine problems with samples and instrumentation, within defined areas
- Identify relevant information from scientific sources e.g. supervisors, literature etc. in order to contribute to solutions
- Participate in continuous performance improvement of systems and processes relevant to the work environment e.g. workplace organisation techniques, accreditation (e.g. ISO, UKAS) and proficiency testing.
- Evaluate data, recognise and call attention to anomalous or unusual results
- Comply with health and safety policies and procedures including HASWA, COSHH, risk assessments, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), manual handling, emergency procedures.
- Maintain excellent housekeeping, in accordance with organisation Standard Procedures
- Order and control stocks of laboratory materials where required
- Identify, organise and use resources effectively to complete tasks applying the concepts of resource efficiency e.g energy, water and waste
- Adhere to internal and external regulatory requirements e.g. GLP, GMP, GDP
- Prepare for, and perform, laboratory experiments, tests or tasks following any specified methodologies to provide reliable, accurate data e.g. weighing, pipetting, filtering, spectroscopic techniques, chromatography techniques
- Demonstrate technical competence in the use of specified instruments and equipment
- Report faults and seek diagnostic advice to maintain equipment in good working order, including calibration where required
- Complete documentation proficiently
- Keep accurate records of laboratory work undertaken and results
- Contribute to the preparation of reports.
- Use simple statistical techniques for data presentation and evaluation e. g calculation of median and standard deviation, production of graphs
- Demonstrate problem solving techniques including identification of sources of error and how they can be reduced e.g. human error
- Use standard software packages and applications e.g. Microsoft Office suite
- Use Laboratory Information Management systems to support their work
- Address non-routine problems with samples and instrumentation, within defined areas
- Identify relevant information from scientific sources e.g. supervisors, literature etc. in order to contribute to solutions
- Participate in continuous performance improvement of systems and processes relevant to the work environment e.g. workplace organisation techniques, accreditation (e.g. ISO, UKAS) and proficiency testing.
- Evaluate data, recognise and call attention to anomalous or unusual results
Training schedule
The training for this apprenticeship will be done online. Working towards a Level 3 Laboratory Technician apprenticeship standard.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
About this employer
As the specialists in skills for science and technology, our purpose is to make sure your business; your people and our industry are future ready. We are a not-for-profit charitable organisation with a family of commercially focused companies committed to supporting the skills, needs and ambitions across the UK science and technology sector.
Company benefits
Holiday Allowance - 25 Days Holiday Allowance, plus Bank Holidays Pension - Employee 5%, Employer 3% Employee Assistance Programme Onsite Parking
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, you will be eligible to apply for other positions within the business.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
COGENT SSC LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000347031.
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