Scientific Officer

**Employment Type**: Permanent Full Time
**Position Classification**: Scientific Officer
**Remuneration**: $73,440.82 - $104,751.61 per annum plus superannuation
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ567801
**Location**: Forensic and Analytical Science Service Lidcombe

**Applications Close**:04 May 2025 - 11:59pm
**About the opportunity**

FASS is part of NSW Health Pathology, and specialises in providing independent and objective forensic analysis to the criminal and coronial justice systems, as well as quality scientific analysis that contributes to community health and safety. Our services include illicit drug analysis, forensic and drug toxicology, chemical criminalistics, forensic biology and DNA, forensic medicine, environmental toxicology, and environmental microbiology.
**What we can offer you**
- Accrued Days Off in addition to Annual Leave OR 9 day fortnight in addition to annual leave
- 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**

Delivering a range of operational and analytical laboratory activities to ensure compliance with operational standards and procedures, quality standards and continual process improvement. Forensic Biology/DNA Scientific Officers are involved in a variety of tasks, including evidence recovery, DNA analysis, reporting results and reviewing reports. They may be required to give evidence in court on any aspects of work performed.
- What are your relevant academic qualifications? (You'll need a Bachelor Degree or higher degree in Science or Applied Science with a major relevant to the Forensic Biology/DNA Unit, or an equivalent qualification relevant to forensic biology).
- Provide a brief overview of your skills and experience relevant to the role.
- Describe a time you managed competing priorities while still maintaining high quality work.
- Describe a time you used problem solving or analytical skills to deal with a challenge.
- NSW Health Pathology RITE values are Respect, Integrity, Teamwork and Excellence. Describe a time you embodied one of these values.

**Need more information?**

**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 PD2023_022 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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**Working Rights**
This position is a permanent position. To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency. Please note: A person who is not an Australian citizen or a permanent resident is only eligible for temporary employment for a period not longer than the duration of their current visa.

**Talent Pool**

**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.

All staff employed by NSW FASS will be required to supply a reference buccal sample so that their DNA profile can be compared to other generated profiles to exclude the possibility of contamination.