Reporting Scientist

Reporting Scientist

Job description

Job Description

Salary : Competitive

Location : Feltham, UK

Contract : Permanent

Hours : 37.5hrs per week, Full Time

Closing date : 07 / 11 / 2024

The Role

We are currently recruiting for a Reporting Scientist to join our fantastic team at our site based in Feltham. If you are passionate about a rewarding career in Forensic testing and want to use your expertise to its full potential, then this is a great opportunity to join a well-established and successful market leading company with over 30 years’ experience in providing Forensic Services to the Police forces of England and Wales, as well as other commercial organisations and public sector bodies.







This is a truly exciting time to begin or continue your career with our first-class business, as a Reporting Scientist you will be responsible for the interpretation and reporting of results of drugs of abuse in urine and oral fluid and providing expert witness statements when required.

This role involves a variety of tasks including assisting in the developments of new methods to continually improve our capability and delight our customers.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities :

The successful candidate will also be expected to carry out the following

- Interpretation of analytical data, reporting of results and providing expert witness statements when required.
- Delivery of work projects, such as developing new methods as well as improving existing ones effectively to agreed deadlines in response to customer demand and organisational change.
- Obtain and maintain appropriate levels of accreditation for the laboratory.
- Provide guidance and advice for all issues relating to quality within the laboratory.
- Ensure that internal and external quality controls are carried out,





and that appropriate corrective and preventive measures are taken to ensure standards are maintained.
- Organise and help develop direct and indirect reports to improve the delivery of day-to-day work and projects.
- Ensure equipment is effectively and economically maintained so that the laboratory function is not compromised by unscheduled downtime.

GC-MS, LC-MS-MS, GC-MS-MS).

- Participating in the technical work such as extraction of drugs of abuse
- Generate and implement ideas in line with CI
- Demonstrate an awareness of, and compliance with, health and safety regulations, and act as a COSHH advisor.
- Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures.
- As part of the team ensure that operational targets are met and exceeded where possible.






- Achieving key performance indicator targets.
- Any queries are dealt with in a professional and timely manner ensuring TAT is met and customer satisfaction.
- Provide expert witness interpretations.

Qualifications

The ideal Candidate :

We are looking for someone with a degree in Chemistry or Science related subject along with atleast 5 years of relevant experience (preferable but not essential), is highly motivated, enthusiastic and possesses the competence and team spirit to support others and contribute to a positive culture.

Here at EFS integrity and customer focus is at the heart of everything we do and the below is what will see you excel in this role :

- Good attention to detail, well organised, innovative and motivated.
- Good interpersonal and team playing skills.






- Demonstration of good communications skills, both verbal and written.
- Ability to cope under pressure, multitask and work to deadlines.
- Strong team player.
- Demonstrate a high level of confidentiality when dealing with sensitive material.
- Proactive worker with an enthusiastic attitude to work.

If you have knowledge of instrumental analytical techniques including GC-MS and LC-MS / MS and even extraction methods, then we would love to hear from you.

Additional Information

Company Benefits

In return for your hard work and loyal service, we will offer you a competitive salary, a selection of employee benefits via our flexible benefits menu which includes cycle to work, give as you earn, volunteering days, buy and sell holiday.

In addition, we also offer the following :







- Life Assurance (3 times annual salary)
- Free on-site Car Parking
- Scottish Widows Company Pension Plan
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing to a maximum of 30 days)
- Employee length of service awards and yearly recognition schemes, celebrating work anniversaries here at EFS.
- Employee technology scheme
- Discount vouchers and flexi reward points on our employee wellness hub
- Everyone who joins EFS will have access to Perkbox allowing you to save money all year round on a wide range of perks such as supermarket savings, days out or your daily coffee
- Learning and study support
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Health Cash Plan membership
- Enhanced company sick, maternity and paternity pay scheme
- Refer a friend scheme
- Subscription to mental health support and wellbeing.







Due to the highly sensitive nature of the work, applicants should note that security clearance is required for this role.

To gain security clearance you must have five years continuous residency in the UK. Security clearance is undertaken by a third party to police personnel vetting standards, as such any criminal convictions may prevent you from gaining security clearance.

In addition, the successful applicant will be required to undertake drug and alcohol testing prior to commencing employment.