Medical Laboratory Technician

**Employment Type**: Temporary Part Time up to July 2025, with potential availability of ongoing employment

**Position Classification**: Technical Officer Grade 1/2
**Remuneration**: $33.26 - $47.91 per hour plus superannuation
**Hours Per Week**: 16
**Requisition ID**: REQ552979
**Location**: Lismore Base Hospital
**Applications Close**: 17 March 2025 - 11:59pm

**About the opportunity**

**"A healthy community through quality care"**

Become a part of our Core Lab team at Lismore as a part time Technical Officer providing quality care to our local and regional Hospitals/MPS and the wider community. Our staff are at the heart of what we do and we are proud of the services we provide to our community.

Northern NSW Health Pathology is located in north eastern NSW, extending from Grafton in the south to Tweed Heads on the Queensland border and west to Tabulam and Urbenville with Lismore central to the region. Northern NSW offers a diverse range of landscapes and lifestyles, from world-heritage listed mountain ranges, to world-renowned surfing breaks and everything in between.

Our people live in some of Australia's most vibrant regional centres with first class infrastructure, unspoilt natural wonders, pristine coastlines and a thriving arts scene. It's a fast-growing region with rewarding careers and adventures to be found among the large cities, regional towns and relaxed rural villages.
**What we can offer you**
- This position is eligible for a Rural Health Workforce Incentive Scheme allowance of up to $2,100 plus super per annum in addition to award entitlements
- 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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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.

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