What you’ll be doing

Med­ical Lab­o­ra­to­ry Sci­en­tists man­age a range of oper­a­tional lab­o­ra­to­ry activ­i­ties includ­ing sci­en­tif­ic and tech­ni­cal train­ing and the ongo­ing review, devel­op­ment and qual­i­ty man­age­ment of lab­o­ra­to­ry prac­tices to ensure com­pli­ance with oper­a­tional stan­dards and pro­ce­dures, qual­i­ty stan­dards and con­tin­u­al process improvement.

About you

You’ll have the fol­low­ing exper­tise and qualities:

1. Bach­e­lor or high­er degree in Science/Medical Lab­o­ra­to­ry Sci­ence or equiv­a­lent qual­i­fi­ca­tion, with sub­jects rel­e­vant to pathol­o­gy from a recog­nised ter­tiary institution.
2. A strong cus­tomer-focus and abil­i­ty to com­mu­ni­cate effec­tive­ly with cus­tomers, patients and clin­i­cal and lab­o­ra­to­ry staff, along with nego­ti­a­tion skills, report writ­ing skills, sta­tis­ti­cal eval­u­a­tion of sci­en­tif­ic data and the abil­i­ty to effec­tive­ly com­mu­ni­cate poli­cies and procedures.
3. Lead­er­ship and man­age­ment skills and expe­ri­ence includ­ing oper­a­tional man­age­ment, bud­get man­age­ment, staff man­age­ment and resource management.
4. Demon­strat­ed under­stand­ing and sound knowl­edge of accred­i­ta­tion frame­works, rel­e­vant stan­dards and qual­i­ty systems.