Senior Scientist

3 days ago

Herston, Queensland, Australia Department of Health - Queensland Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Work as a senior team member in the Histology Section providing a comprehensive histology service to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, the Queensland Children's Hospital as well as a central support and referral service to laboratories throughout Queensland. Are you looking for a new adventure? Perhaps adding to your skillset? Challenging yourself in a new environment? If so, we would love for you to apply for this role.

Why work with us?

Work alongside passionate professionals in a supportive and inclusive environment that values people and prioritises employee success and wellbeing. This includes

Competitive salaries


• % superannuation 

• % leave loading

Employee wellbeing

• hour full time work week

•    Access to 24/7 confidential employee support providers and counsellors including for immediate family members

•    Additional flexibility to support your work life balance including access to generous leave entitlements, such as purchased leave, domestic violence leave, reproductive health leave, cultural leave, study and examination leave.

Professional development

•    Career progression with more than 300 diverse career pathways and career support to take you further 

•    Access to a variety of programs and initiatives to support training and career growth. 

•    Grow your skills through hands-on experience and access to internal training opportunities and additional financial and leave benefits for approved external training and development.

Key competencies (role specific criteria)

You will be assessed on your ability to demonstrate the following:


•    Proven high-level knowledge, skills and ability to analyse patient specimens by applying advanced independent scientific judgement in Anatomical Pathology.

•    Demonstrated experience in, and high-level knowledge of Histology, with expertise to supervise scientist training programs.

•    Demonstrated experience in, and high-level knowledge of histology processes.

•    Proven ability to exercise independent scientific judgement in providing advice to peers, anatomical pathologists, surgeons, clinicians and other internal and external clients impacting patient care and service delivery.

•    Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to train and educate staff while actively participating in and contributing to continuing education and other professional development activities.

•    Proven ability to develop and apply scientific practices and actively contribute to research activities within the service and externally through collaboration with other disciplines, research groups and universities. 

•    Demonstrated ability to initiate and implement quality and service improvement activities to continually improve patient care in accordance with NATA/ISO accreditation/certification.

Qualifications, registrations, and other requirements

  • The successful applicant must hold at least a Bachelor of Science relevant to the field (or equivalent) from a recognised university or tertiary institution.
  • Candidates must be able to participate in a roster system, including overtime as required. Current Laboratory hours fall between Monday to Friday and Saturday and rostered on call duties.
  • Please detail any visa conditions you may have if you are not a permanent resident of Australia.
  • We understand that some people may require adjustments to the workplace or the way the work is performed. All applicants are encouraged to advise the panel of any support or reasonable adjustments (i.e., building access, wheelchair access, interpreting services etc.) that may be required.

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