Are you passionate about quality, compliance and advancing public health science? Join the Public Health Virology (PHV) Genomics team as a Senior Medical Laboratory Scientist – Quality and play a key role in maintaining the highest standards of laboratory quality and accreditation.

Job details

You'll support quality management processes across the Genomics discipline, helping ensure compliance with national accreditation standards, regulatory requirements and organisational policies. Working within a specialised public health environment, you'll contribute to continuous improvement, strengthen quality practices and support the delivery of reliable, high-quality genomic testing services that protect the health of Queenslanders.

The essential requirements for this role are;

• Demonstrated contributions to the quality of clinical practice within a genomics laboratory, through compliance with organisational policies and procedures and maintenance of relevant legislative, administration, and professional standards, including NATA / ISO / TGA accreditation / certification requirements.
• Demonstrated high level knowledge and skills in Genomics.
• Demonstrated high level knowledge, expertise and skill in applying the principles of quality management and continuous quality improvement, and a high-level understanding of laboratory quality control and quality assurance programs.

In this role, you will be required to display the following leadership behaviours Leadership competencies for Queensland relevant to the role.

• Drives accountability and outcomes: Demonstrates accountability for the execution and quality of results through professionalism, persistence and transparency.
• Builds enduring relationships: Builds and sustains relationships to enable the collaborative delivery of customer-focused outcomes.

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

• 12.75% superannuation
• 17.5% leave loading

Employee wellbeing

• 38 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.

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion 

At Queensland Health, our work environment is inclusive and supportive, and we value our employees. We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage applications from people of all cultures, abilities and backgrounds.

Our commitment to cultural safety, equity, diversity and inclusion means we understand some people may need changes to the recruitment process. If you need support during the recruitment process, such as meeting with the panel virtually instead of in person, please reach out to the hiring manager. We value diverse candidates and your need for adjustments will not affect our hiring decisions

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• DoH Applicant Pack (PDF)
  
  CSQ694950 HP4 Med Lab Scientist Snr Quality Genomics (PDF)