Drive High-Impact Clinical Logistics in a Life-Changing Environment

Play a key leadership role in delivering life-saving tissue banking services across Queensland. As the Clinical Assistant Supervisor, you’ll lead a small team, coordinate critical logistics, and ensure the safe, timely distribution of human tissue for transplantation—all within a highly regulated clinical environment.

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Your new role:

In this hands-on leadership position, you will oversee the day-to-day operations and logistics of Clinical Assistants within the Queensland Tissue Bank. You'll ensure seamless coordination across recovery, production, and distribution activities while maintaining the highest standards of quality, safety, and compliance. Key responsibilities include:

• Supervising and supporting a small team, including rostering, workload management, and performance development
• Coordinating the receipt, storage, and distribution of human tissue for transplantation within critical timeframes
• Monitoring operational performance, identifying improvements, and optimising workflow efficiency
• Managing inventory, consumables, and logistics to support clinical and production activities

About you:

You are an experienced and proactive leader who thrives in fast-paced, high-stakes environments. You bring a strong operational mindset, attention to detail, and the ability to guide a team while maintaining strict quality and safety standards. You will demonstrate:

• Strong leadership and team supervision skills, with the ability to motivate and develop staff
• Proven experience in operations, logistics, or a regulated environment (health, laboratory, or manufacturing)
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to prioritise and respond under pressure
• High-level communication and interpersonal skills, with a collaborative and professional approach

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
  
  

About us:

Queensland Tissue Bank (QTB) is Queensland's sole facility for the provision of donated human tissues for therapeutic use. QTB performs all stages of tissue procurement including donor identification, screening and consent; and all stages of tissue preparation including retrieval, processing, storage, despatch, and quality management. Banked tissues include bone, skin, eye, and heart valves. Of the Australian states, Queensland has the largest tissue bank and provides therapeutic tissue products for both local and interstate use. QTB plays a part in informing both state and national policy on tissue banking.     

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.

Further information

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

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

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

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS04680662 Role Description (PDF)