Pathology Quality & PoCT Manager

Pathology Quality Manager

• Full Time ongoing role – 80 hours per fortnight with monthly paid day off
• Be part of a dynamic and supportive team with a commitment to continuous improvement
• Central Parkville location

Melbourne Health Pathology is a service within the Access Critical Care and Investigative services (ACCIS) division of the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH). We provide inpatient services at the City and Royal Park campus, including Melbourne Private Hospital and operate a busy outpatients collections service for visitors to the precinct.

An exciting opportunity is available for a suitably qualified medical laboratory scientist to join the RMH Pathology Leadership team as the Quality & Point of Care Test (PoCT) Manager. We are looking for an experienced medical laboratory scientist with a passion for quality assurance principles to provide leadership and direction for pathology accreditation across a broad scope incorporating laboratory and PoC testing.

Reporting to the Director of Operations, you will be accountable for the Quality Management System (QMS) ensuring it meets the needs of our clients, operational objectives, and the various regulatory requirements.

Your new role:

• Incident Management – Investigate and determine root cause of events to implement appropriate and proportional corrective actions.
• Quality Management – Ensure the service is performing to the highest standard, meeting internal and regulatory requirements, supporting lab staff with education and training.
• Procedure Management – Review and update organisational documents as required, circulating policy and procedure to staff, promoting awareness and appreciation.
• Stakeholder Management – Foster internal and external relationships across the precinct to promote a culture of collaboration and innovation

About you:

• You are a medical laboratory scientist who can demonstrate an in depth understanding of ISO and NPAAC requirements.
• You are familiar with the accreditation lifecycle and are always accreditation ready.
• You are looking to expand your leadership skills and have a passion for continued professional development.
• You have high level communication skills that you can adapt for a variety of audiences or to influence outcomes.

Benefits of working with The Royal Melbourne Hospital:

• Join a values based organisation offering great prospects for career diversity and professional advancement, including training and research opportunities, and access to mentorship and leadership programs.
• Ongoing reward and recognition programs including monthly ‘You Made a Difference’ awards celebrating staff and teams across the organisation.
• Take advantage of an expanding employee benefits program, with comprehensive Health & Wellbeing programs to support work life balance, including onsite staff gym and staff vaccination program.
• Up to $12,000 tax free earnings with salary packaging options.
• Generous leave entitlements – five weeks annual leave per year (pro-rata for part time), additional monthly paid day off for full time staff.
• Central Parkville location – onsite car parking options, easily accessible via public transport.

The RMH stands in solidarity with First Nations people in work and care. We are proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equity for our staff and our community. Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities, and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.

The Victorian Department of Health has recently announced a program of reforms across the public pathology system in Victoria.

As part of these reforms, the pathology services from the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, the Royal Women’s Hospital, and the Royal Children’s Hospital will, through a change process that is in progress, transition to a new separate public pathology entity. The new model for delivering public pathology services will present an exciting opportunity to improve the scope, scale and reach of pathology services and testing capability to all Victorians.

As this role is with the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the successful candidate for this role will be initially employed by Melbourne Health. Once the change process has been completed and the new public pathology entity is fully formed, which is anticipated to be in late 2024, this position and the successful candidate’s employment (including terms and conditions of employment) will transition to the new public pathology entity.

Please contact us via the details below if you have any questions about the pathology reforms and transition of this role to the new entity

Interested? Apply today!

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Don’t miss out! Recruitment is ongoing, with interviews commencing as soon as suitable applicants are received. Advertising may cease prior to the closing date. If you need any support with your application, please reach out to the hiring manager via the details below.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check, and where applicable, Working With Children Check (WWCC). All RMH employees are required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment including evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses) and Influenza with a TGA approved vaccine (mandatory for all clinical and or patient facing roles) prior to commencement. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health’s Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.