Temporary & Contract Recruitment

Network Scientific is an experienced science temp agency, here to help you fulfil resource demands through science temps and contracted recruitment vacancies. With over 50 years of scientific recruitment experience, our knowledgeable team are best placed to support you should your next hire be on a contracted or temporary basis.

Our science temp agency provides temporary workers, either through our PAYE or via their own limited companies. Giving you access to a range of skillsets across various sectors and seniorties.

We understand that the circumstances where temporary and contract recruitment services are necessary is reactive. Vacancies need to be filled and turnaround times for getting a science temp through your doors are quick.

These requirements can be caused by a variety of different business scenarios, from maternity leave to seasonal spikes etc, regardless, the science temp agency is required to fill openings swiftly.

Our internal SLAs dictate a response to your requirement within two hours. With access to a huge network of industry professionals, our experienced and knowledgeable consultants will not rest until your resource gap is filled.

Our science temp agency services can fulfil whatever interim resource requirements may come up in your business. For example, we assist our clients with maternity leave, sickness cover, and interim project requirements or we can provide science temps to help you deploy a temp-to-perm strategy. We’re equipped with over two decades of expertise and are able to recruit and manage a variety of scientific temps.

From chemists, QC/QA personnel, site managers and FMCG operators, to the bench-to-bedside portfolio of researchers, lab technicians, GMP specialists and HSE personnel. As a specialised, experienced scientific recruitment agency, we can help you navigate the scientific temp onboarding and management processes.

Wondering whether you should deploy a temp agency for science jobs and vacancies? Here are just some of the reasons our clients choose the scientific temp route:

• Add resource to your team despite hiring freezes
• No need to seek sign-off on an annual salary
• Quickly fill the skills gaps with expertice required to complete client projects
• Mitigate risks to lab productivity and efficiency
• Meet resource demands regardless of current affairs
• Scale-up your laboratory without large upfront investment
• Ongoing management lies with our laboratory recruitment agency, to ensure you can concentrate on what matters!

We are registered members of the REC which means we offer a fully compliant service and abide by the REC code of practice. All of our temporary workers are interviewed, qualifications, ID and reference checked and confirmed fully eligible to work. We’ve been doing this a very long time so we really know what we’re doing. We will minimise your hiring risk, managing the compliance requirements for you.

Our online timesheets and automations make for simple weekly submissions and allow you to easily approve and monitor hours worked and associated costs.

Finally, our payrolling services offer you the option of adding the interim worker to our PAYE, even if we didn’t source the candidate for you. This passes the majority of liabilities and HR management onto us so you don’t have to worry about it.

For more information about our temporary recruitment and contractor services, please get in touch.