Research Assistant Malignant Peripheral Nerve

-Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan
Job type: Part time
Organisation: The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Research
Reference: 71424

**Research Assistant**
- ** Fixed Term Position**:

- **0.4 EFT per fortnight**:

- **Parkville Campus location**
- A 12 month parental leave replacement opportunity has been provided to conduct a large-scale national research program focussed on Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumour Genomics in Neurofibromatosis 1 (MaGeN).
- The Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital is an internationally recognised centre for clinical research, including investigator-driven medical trials and research.
- The Department of Neurosurgery provides a comprehensive inpatient service for patients with neurosurgical diseases, with a clinical and referral service for patients with intracranial, spinal and peripheral nerve disorders requiring neurosurgical assessment and treatment. Each year, the Department treats over 13,000 outpatients and is involved in more than 1500 operations at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. There are 46 dedicated Neurosurgery beds together with patients in ICU, Trauma and Oncology.

**Your new role**:

- Identify and consent suitable patients by liaising with and under the direction of the clinical team
- Collection, processing and storage of biobank specimen samples e.g. blood, tumour tissue
- Processing samples with various laboratory techniques, centrifugation, DNA and RNA extraction with kits
- Perform lab procedures such as Western blot, PCR where required
- Careful record and database keeping with respect for privacy principles
- Management of the laboratory environment, ordering, equipment, stores, OH&S requirements
- Participate in research group meetings, lab meetings, conferences and other research activities within the department, coordination of clinical research activities including consent documentation, patient tracking, database management.
- Work under the direction of the senior post-doc scientist as well as the clinician-researcher Principal Investigators on the project
- Other duties as directed

**About you**:

- A Bachelor, Honours or Masters degree in Science, Bio-Science or related fields
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience in conducting in-depth clinical data collection and interdisciplinary liaison at collaborating hospitals and departments
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team to achieve project goals and meet agreed deadlines.

**Benefit of working with The Royal Melbourne Hospital**
- Maintain an understanding of individual responsibility for patient safety, quality and risk and contribute to organisational quality and safety initiatives;
- Take reasonable care for their own safety and wellbeing and that of anyone else that could be affected by their actions;
- Speak up for the safety and wellbeing of patients, consumers, colleagues and visitors and escalate any concerns that have or could impact safety;
- Accept responsibility for ensuring the implementation of health and safety policies and procedures and cooperate with the RMH in any action it considers necessary to maintain a safe working environment which is safe and without risk.
- Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
- Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
- Close to public transport.

**Interested?**

If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us.
- For a confidential discussion please connect via the details below.
- All RMH employees are required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment including evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses) and Influenza with a TGA approved vaccine (mandatory for all clinical and or patient facing roles) prior to commencement. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health’s Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.

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