Health Practitioner Cadet

Role fit
The essential requirements for this role are.

**Clinical Ability**:

- Willingness to develop clinical competency in Pathology and participate in work output assessment and feedback processes.
- Ability to work under direction and within the limitations of a defined role in patient care.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively use computers and general office equipment and to quickly acquire ability to use new information and data systems.

**Team Participation/Communication**:

- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and work collaboratively as part of a team with a good understanding of own scope of practice in a complex and demanding work environment.
- Demonstrated skills in self-organisation and initiative to enable the timely completion of a variety of tasks allowing efficient service function.

Reporting/work relationships
- Cadets report operationally to a line manager and professionally to a supervising Health Practitioner from their discipline.
- Cadets will be supported culturally through being networked with other Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Cadets, and through a local Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander mentor.
- This position has no direct line management responsibility or financial delegations.

Mandatory qualifications, registrations and other requirements
- Must be enrolled full time (defined as at least 75% of the full-time study load) at an Australian university located in Australia, in a Bachelor of Medical Laboratory science.
- be an Australian resident.

Identified Position
- Under s25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991, there is a genuine occupational requirement for the incumbent to be Indigenous to the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Community.
- To allow the panel to confirm that you are eligible to be considered for this Indigenous Identified role, the panel will seek your response to the following questions.

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- Who's your mob?
- Who's your country?
- How do you contribute to your community?

To allow the panel to confirm that you are eligible to be considered for this Indigenous Identified role, the panel may either:

- accept your written assertion that you are of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent; or
- It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against the following vaccine preventable diseases during their employment (Health Employment Directive No. 01/16):
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- measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)
- varicella (chicken pox)
- pertussis (whooping cough)
- hepatitis B
- tuberculosis

How to apply
Please provide the following information to the panel to assess your suitability:
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- A short-written response (maximum 1-2 pages, dot points acceptable) on how your experience, abilities, knowledge and personal qualities would enable you to achieve the key responsibilities and meet the skill requirements of the role.
- Your current CV or resume, including two referees who have a thorough knowledge of your capabilities, work performance and conduct within the previous two years. It is preferable to include your current, immediate or past supervisor.
- Applications will remain current for 12 months or for the duration of the vacancy. Future vacancies of a temporary, full time and part time nature may also be filled through this recruitment process.
- Only those persons eligible to work in Australia may be employed by Queensland Health. Prospective employees are required to provide proof of identity and documentary evidence of their right to work in Australia.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.