About the Role
Brighton and Sussex Medical School is seeking an Anatomy Facility Manager to lead the delivery of high-quality technical services in anatomy. You will join an award-winning team teaching over 1,000 students annually and oversee the daily operations of the Anatomy Facility, ensuring excellent teaching and research support while promoting continuous improvement.
You will manage the running of specialist teaching and research areas, ensuring services are efficient, compliant, and meet the needs of staff, students, and visitors. You’ll ensure adherence to relevant legislation and University policies, providing practical guidance. You will also line-manage the technical team, developing training and development plans.
A key part of your role is to develop strategies that expand the facility’s activities, including income generation and building industry partnerships to enhance resources. You will maintain safety compliance, update documentation, deliver training, and develop standard operating procedures and risk assessments.
Additionally, you will oversee equipment maintenance and contribute to health and safety committees. Working closely with academic, technical, and administrative colleagues, you will act as a vital link between the facility and its stakeholders, ensuring seamless service delivery in a specialist academic environment.
About You
You will be educated to degree level (Level 6) or equivalent, with strong practical knowledge of anatomical facilities and techniques. Your effective management skills and experience leading small teams will enable you to oversee operations and drive continuous improvement confidently.
You have excellent communication skills, able to clearly present policies and procedures to diverse audiences. Your planning, organisational, and project management abilities help you delegate effectively and manage multiple priorities.
Skilled at building positive working relationships, you use interpersonal skills to influence and contribute to team success. You are analytical, able to generate solutions and make sound decisions, with a strong commitment to excellent service.
Technically competent, you work well on your own initiative and understand University systems, legislation, and health and safety regulations, including the Human Tissue Act (2004). Experience in management and data handling is essential.
Desirable qualities include postgraduate education, knowledge of higher education, financial regulations, and strategic income generation experience.
About Our School
Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) is an equal partnership between the Universities of Sussex and Brighton together with NHS organisations throughout the South-East Region. BSMS is committed to inclusivity, sustainability, medical education in a multi-professional context, and promoting the highest possible standards in our teaching, clinical practice and research (ranging from early translational to applied).
Working together, our Academics, Technicians and Professional Services staff co-ordinate the passionate delivery of teaching and research, allowing us to remain one of the leading choices of medical schools in the UK. Our staff are multiskilled and work across varied teams, which are diverse, experienced and dedicated.
Our object as a School is to strive for excellence in education, training and research allowing us to support all in a constantly changing healthcare sector. We work to create a nurturing and supportive environment in which our staff and our students can succeed and thrive. Our medical research has developed a strong reputation for making a real impact locally, nationally and internationally.
Ultimately, Our Research Aims To
* improve medical treatment
* answer fundamental biomedical and clinical questions
* deliver more personalised healthcare to patients.
Why work here / Reward and Benefits
Brighton and Sussex Medical School is located on a 150-acre campus near the South Downs. We are accessible by public transport, offer cycle-to-work benefits, and promote sustainability and inclusivity. BSMS holds a Gold Athena Swan Award.
Find out about our equality, diversity and inclusion and our reward and benefits package.
Additional Information
Please contact Dr Luke Reid (L.Reid2@bsms.ac.uk) for informal enquiries.
The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and Black and Minority Ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in STEMM academic posts at Sussex. Visa Sponsorship: This role may be eligible for sponsorship. Please consult our Skilled Worker Visa information page for further information about Visa Sponsorship.
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