Team Leader

Team Leader - Technical

Why You Will Be Excited About This Role

At Genomic Diagnostics, we all have one thing in common, we are passionate about making a difference to the health of Australians. And right now, there's never been a more exciting time to join us.

As one of the fastest-growing areas in healthcare, genomics is transforming the way we diagnose, treat, and prevent disease. You'll be joining a dynamic and rapidly expanding team that's at the forefront of innovation—driving better patient outcomes and shaping the future of personalised medicine.

You'll thrive in a supportive, flexible, and forward-thinking culture as well as have access to opportunities to multi-skill and work across diverse streams, meaning you'll expand your capabilities while making a real difference every day.

About Us

Genomic Diagnostics is a Healius business. Healius employs 8,500+ passionate people, with an expansive network of over 100 medical laboratories and 2000 patient collection centres operating across metropolitan, regional and remote Australia. Genomic Diagnostics provides comprehensive genomic testing, spanning reproductive health, oncology inherited disease, and personalised medicine to an extensive network of public and private hospitals and community referrers across Australia. Our primary focus is to provide high quality and timely genomic information to assist in clinical decision-making and diagnosis of disease.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a Scientist or Technician with strong people management and operational skills to oversee the Genomic Diagnostics technical team and contribute to laboratory operations.

As Team Leader – Technical you will use your strong people management skills to supervise and coordinate a team of Laboratory Technicians in their day-to-day activities to maintain efficient testing workflows.

You will work closely with the Chief Scientist, Operations Manager and Team Leaders to contribute to the development, implementation and maintenance of laboratory policies and procedures.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Supervising and coordinating a team of Laboratory Technicians, in collaboration with the Operations Manager and Team Leaders
• Contributing to the development, implementation and maintenance of laboratory policies and procedures
• Coordinating maintenance activities such as cleaning, building works, deliveries and stock management
• Oversee training & competency assessments of laboratory technicians
• Contribute to projects, audits, test development, instrumentation, implementation and revision of existing procedures, reporting any hazards conducting appropriate risk assessments
• Ensuring good laboratory practices are upheld
• Maintaining accurate documentation and records & patient confidentiality

What Type of Person Will be Successful

You will be a Scientist or Technician with strong leadership experience ideally in the health service or scientific laboratory field. You will have working knowledge of medical testing laboratory accreditation requirements and have a high level of communication & interpersonal skills to collaborate with all levels of internal & external stakeholders.

These are the type of attributes & skills you would possess:

• A tertiary science degree or an equivalent qualification
• Previous leadership experience in a technical or operations role
• Experience in a health service or scientific laboratory, ideally in pathology
• Strong knowledge of medical testing accreditation requirement & standards
• Excellent writing & analytical skills with highly developed organisational & project management skills
• Q-Pulse knowledge is an advantage

Benefits, Perks and Wellbeing

As part of working for Healius, you will have access to a range of benefits & perks including:

• Benefits platform - Reduce the impact of the cost of living with everyday savings with 500+ of Australia's most-loved brands, (from the weekly grocery shop to premium perks like holidays).
• Fitness Passport – Access top fitness centres & pools across Australia at a subsidised rate.
• Corporate health insurance discounts, banking benefits and novated leasing salary packaging.
• Career growth and development opportunities with access to a comprehensive library of online courses and learning paths via our e-learning platform.
• Confidential health and well-being support through our Employee Assistance Program, available to all employees and their family members.

Our Commitment to Diversity And Inclusion

Healius 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.

Healius is a part of the Commonwealth Government's Veteran Employment Committment (VEC) and has been recognised as a Veteran Employment Supporter. Veterans and candidates with Australian Defence Force (ADF) experience are encouraged to apply.

How To Apply

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