Medical Laboratory Technician

**Employment Type**: Permanent Part Time
**Position Classification**: Technical Officer Grade 1/2
**Remuneration**: $33.26 - $47.91 per hour plus superannuation
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ574053
**Location**: Wollongong Hospital
**Applications Close**: 28 May 2025 - 11:59pm

**About the opportunity**

Join Our Team at NSW Health Pathology - Wollongong Hospital

NSW Health Pathology is looking for a dedicated Permanent Part-Time Technical Officer to become part of the team at Wollongong Hospital, a leading referral and teaching hospital serving the Illawarra and Shoalhaven regions. With over 500 beds, Wollongong Hospital offers a wide range of inpatient, outpatient, and community-based services, including the Illawarra Regional Cancer Care Centre.

Wollongong is ideally located just an hour south of Sydney, surrounded by the stunning Royal National Park, Lake Illawarra, the Tasman Sea, and the Illawarra Escarpment - making it a perfect place to live and work.

At the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, our RITE Values—Respect, Integrity, Teamwork, and Excellence—are the foundation of everything we do, guiding our professional standards and ensuring the highest level of care for our patients and community.

**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**
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the delivery of pathology services within a discipline relevant to the department, including use of Laboratory Information Systems, Patient Systems and Quality Systems
- Ability to work in a responsible and efficient manner and to manage competing priorities to meet deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment whilst working autonomously to deliver results within specified timeframes set to meet client expectations
- Customer focused approach displaying well-developed interpersonal skills and good oral and written communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively with customers and patients as well as clinical laboratory staff
- Commitment to the principles of quality management and continuous quality improvement and to identify, develop and implement quality and service improvement activities

**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 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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**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.