Life Science Modern Apprenticeship

Location: Livingston
Job Type: Apprenticeship
What you need to know: Full Time
 
Q2 Solutions is a leading clinical trial laboratory services organization with end-to-end laboratory services and secure, enterprise-wide biospecimen and consent management solutions. With a relentless focus on quality and innovation, Q2 Solutions uses its global experience and scientific expertise to transform science and data into actionable medical insights that help customers improve human health.  A joint venture of IQVIA (formerly QuintilesIMS) and Quest Diagnostics, Q2 Solutions combines the best of each parent organization’s clinical trials laboratory services capabilities to fulfill its mission of treating each sample as if a life depends on it.

 
Life Science Modern Apprenticeship
Q2 Solutions is a leading clinical trial laboratory services organization with end-to-end laboratory services and secure, enterprise-wide biospecimen and consent management solutions. With a relentless focus on quality and innovation, Q2 Solutions uses its global experience and scientific expertise to transform science and data into actionable medical insights that help customers improve human health.  A joint venture of IQVIA (formerly QuintilesIMS) and Quest Diagnostics, Q2 Solutions combines the best of each parent organization’s clinical trials laboratory services capabilities to fulfill its mission of treating each sample as if a life depends on it.
When you work for Q2 Solutions you work for the world’s leading Pharmaceutical Services Company. We offer product development and commercialisation services to the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Medical Devices industries. Our leading-edge capabilities provide healthcare companies with the potential to bring new medicines/devices through development and registration to the market place more quickly, with supporting medical and drug data that will significantly advance the cost effectiveness and quality of healthcare provision. Recently, of the world’s top 30 best-selling drugs, Q2 Solutions has helped to develop or commercialise every one
End-to-end delivery of analytical and pre-analytical lab services to support clinical trials. Includes kit receipt, specimen management, specimen preparation and lab analysis across a broad spectrum of methods and technologies.
 
Responsible for laboratory testing in accordance with applicable regulations governing clinical laboratories. Performs a wide variety of testing to product accurate, reliable and reproducible data to support clinical trials research; and ensures accurate and timely reporting of results. JOB OVERVIEW Job Profile Summary Working under the supervision of leadership, perform a variety of routine clinical testing procedures to obtain data for use in clinical trials research.    
 
Responsibilities
 Essential Functions

• Perform routine analysis of patient specimens according to standard operating procedures (SOPs). Evaluate specimen acceptability upon receipt and during the review of analysis results. Evaluate validity of specimen results against the algorithms displayed by the lab computer system.
• Document all corrective actions taken. May perform secondary review of patient results when signed-off as competent to do so for applicable instrument(s) and/or data type(s).
• Maintain quality control of all laboratory testing to ensure accurate and timely lab reporting. Perform pending workload review periodically during the day; find pending assays and resolve outstanding work prior to the completion of testing for the day. Assist in the development and writing of new medical laboratory procedures and techniques. Follow safety procedures as per laboratory SOPs. Notify appropriate staff of supply shortages. Participate in continuing education through self-study, attending in-services and off-site lectures and meetings.

 
The role will include at least 1 day release to Academic Institution during the course of the Modern Apprenticeship
 
MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
 
entrance qualifications  of one higher in science (grade C or above) and 4*National 5 (minimum C or above) which must include English, Maths, and a second science.
 
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