The College is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business.

The Role

Higher Education Sport are actively recruiting for a Senior Technician in Sport Science.

Candidates for this role will provide technical, learning and research support to students and staff in physiology, biomechanics and nutrition. You will assist in laboratory skills sessions for HE students and will play a key role in supporting lecturing staff in laboratory sessions. You will be responsible for keeping facilities and equipment in a good working order and ensuring students are safe within all learning environments.

The Applicant

You must have a high level of technical proficiency whilst being organised and thorough as well as the ability to communicate effectively. You will have successful experience of undertaking practical sessions in physiology, nutrition or biomechanics.

To be successful you will have a good honors degree and higher qualifications that are relevant to the post.

We are proud to have achieved the Investor in Diversity award. We actively encourage applications who are current under-represented and where we are using positive action under the Equality Act. We welcome everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey. The College is striving to attract, develop and retain the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised.

Alongside our commitment to your professional and personal development, we also offer a generous benefits package including:

• A competitive pension scheme
• On-site parking
• One campus facility
• Subsidised nursery fees
• Up to 25 days annual leave per year
• Additional annual leave available
• Fantastic CPD and inclusive resources for development
• Well-being hours
• Opportunities of volunteering within local community and charities

We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, agile working, staff forums, staff working groups for sustainability, staff steering groups for Investors in Diversity and support services to support with mental health and wellbeing for staff from different backgrounds.

We are and have consistently invested in providing our learners and employees with an outstanding and unrivalled range of modern facilities and resources.

The successful candidate will be employed by The Leicestershire College a subsidiary company of Loughborough College. The terms and conditions of employment offered by the Leicestershire College are different to those of Loughborough College. Please note that employees of the Leicestershire College are based at Loughborough College.

Due to the limits put upon sponsorship allocations, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship to candidates for this role. This remains under review.

If you require any support to apply for this job, please email [email protected]