Ideal location for the placement

Within Surrey and surrounding areas

Course name & level

T-Level Science (Laboratory Sciences) Level 3

This placement is for people aged

Under 18

What the learner will ideally gain from the employer through this industry placement

The types of skills required of this qualification are as follows, and the learner would be expected to learn to apply these under supervision, during their industry placement.

- 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

- How to 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

Length of industry placement

Minimum of 315 hours across the two year programme (so could be broken down into c.160 hrs per year) or more flexibly to meet the employer's needs/resources to supervise etc.