This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria. Stage 1 Sift: Application form and Statement of Suitability will be marked together. If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview. Please do not exceed 1000 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number. Feedback will not be provided at this stage. Stage 2: Interview (competancy based) You will be invited to a single face to face interview Knowledge, experience, skills & abilities will be tested at interview. A test scenario will also be given to assess your technical skills, details will be provided during the interview. Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records. Eligibility Criteria Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants). Location This role is being offered as lab working based at Leeds, Centre for Laboratory Medicine, St James University Hospital. Please note hybrid working is not available for this role. Security Clearance Level Requirement Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard.