Scientist Histopathology - Veterinary

• Partime Permanent Position in Mulgrave VIC - 12 hours a week!
• We are one of the Australia's leading healthcare companies!
• Relevant experience working in a Histology Laboratory (Veterinary) is ideal

About us:

At Healius, we are proud to be one of Australia's leading healthcare companies. We care about providing high quality, easily accessible and affordable healthcare services, including diagnostic imaging and pathology, to our patients and their referring practitioners across the country. We are committed to the wellbeing of our people, customers, and communities which we serve.

Australian Specialised Animal Pathology (ASAP) Laboratory is a leading provider of veterinary pathology laboratory services to Veterinary Clinics throughout Victoria

About the role:

Ensure efficient and prompt sorting, processing, and testing of specimens. Attend to the care, storage, processing, and disposal of pathology specimen. Maintain a high level of hygiene and anti-contamination. Responsible for interpreting and validating results associated with this testing. Perform quality control and quality assurance procedures as required for compliance with regulatory requirements. Troubleshoot quality control problems demonstrating understanding and proficiency in the principles of quality assurance practices. Appropriate response to abnormal, urgent, or time-sensitive requests. Ability to provide guidance and advice on clinical and scientific issues to other scientists, pathologists, patients and referring doctors.

About you:

• Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science or equivalent and a relevant experience working in a Histology Laboratory (Veterinary)
• Histology experience
  • Highly developed specimen cut up (microtomy), embedding and dissectioning skills
  • Immunohistochemistry experience
  • Special Stains
  • Frozen Sections
  • Sorting
  • General Laboratory Duties
• Operates instrumentation for tissue dehydration, section clearing, impregnation with paraffin, cutting tissue sections, and staining of slides
• Your flexibility to cover other shifts is required

Successful applicants will receive:

• A competitive Salary and leave package including Conference Leave and expenses.
• Opportunity to work with a team of specialized skin pathologists including some well published specialists and specialists involved in new technologies
• Free onsite parking
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program, Benestar
• Discounted healthcare and financial services
• Discounts with several major retailers such as Myer, JB-HI Fi, Kmart, Woolworths, Caltex and more

To support this, we have introduced a Vaccination Policy that requires all our employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to limited medical exemptions. Our diverse team of more than 13,500 healthcare professionals are passionate about applying their knowledge and expertise to deliver world-class health services to the people in our communities!

If you believe you have the skills and experience to succeed in this role and we sound like the type of culture you would like to be part of, please click on "apply for this job" or forward your resume direct to Dimpy.Mehta@healius.com.au

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