Medical Laboratory Assistant

**Employment Type**: Permanent Part Time and Temporary Part Time up until February 2025, with potential availability of ongoing employment
**Position Classification**: Technical Assistant Grade 2
**Remuneration**: $30.16 - $31.31 per hour plus superannuation
**Hours Per Week**: 25
**Requisition ID**: REQ521113
**Location**: Concord Hospital

**Applications Close**: 8 October 2024 - 11:59pm
**About the opportunity**

Discover your potential and create a lasting impact in healthcare as a Pathology Collector Come join our team where precision meets compassion. Each sample you collect will lead the way for accurate diagnoses and enhanced patient care. As a collector, you will be the foundation of our diagnostic process, ensuring that every sample is collected with expertise and empathy.

Concord Hospital, which is affiliated with the University of Sydney, is a large teaching hospital with 750 beds. The hospital offers a wide variety of specialty and subspecialty services, many of which are nationally and internationally recognized as centres of excellence. These services include burns treatment, colorectal surgery, laparoscopic surgery, molecular biology and genetic laboratory, aged and extended care, gastroenterology, and palliative care.

The Blood Collection service, a vital and integral part of Concord Hospital's daily operations, is responsible for collecting all bloods within the hospital on a daily round, as well as catering for a large out-patient population. Ward collections occur every morning, 365 days of the year. There are rotating shifts, working 5 of seven days.

**What we can offer you**
- Generous salary packaging options and other fringe benefits
- Corporate wellbeing programs, including the Fitness Passport
- Learning and development opportunities, including in-house training with RTO My Health Learning

**What you'll be doing**

Contribute to a customer-focused pathology collection service across inpatient, outpatient and home care settings. Provide a high-quality healthcare service to all referrers and consumers. Perform venepuncture and other duties pertaining to specimen collection, data entry, processing, and delivery into sites for pathology investigations as required.
- Certificate III in Pathology Collections and/or previous experience in venepuncture or a demonstrated ability to learn all aspects of the clinical environment relevant to the Department.
- Demonstrated customer service experience and skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with patients, carers, and clinical staff in an environment transferrable to this role.
- Demonstrated problem solving and trouble shooting skills, with the ability to resolve general issues within the clinical environment including specimen preparation and transport ensuring viability of the specimens.
- Familiarity with pathology terminology and requirements and the willingness to learn a broad scope of collection, data entry and specimen preparation practices including paediatric and neonate blood collections.
- Unencumbered Class C Driver's License (valid in NSW) or the capacity to travel to any site for a shift as required.
- Must be willing to participate in shift type work including weekend work as required and travel to any site or location within the operational area as requested.
- Demonstrated ability to manage a demanding professional team environment where there are competing priorities and strict deadlines.
- Proficient computer skills including high attention to detail and data accuracy.

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**Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination Against Specified Infectious Diseases**
This is a Category A position. All Category A applicants must read and understand _NSW Health_ _Policy Directive_ _PD2024_015_ Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination Against Specified Infectious Diseases_. All recruits must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in this policy. All recruits must provide evidence against specified diseases and comply with the requirements of this policy at their **own cost** prior to appointment.

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**Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**
NSW Health Pathology is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We seek to recruit from diverse applicants and create teams with skills, perspectives and experiences that complement each other at work. We welcome suitably qualified applicants regardless of age, ethnicity, socio-cultural background, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity.