Pathology Collector Casual

Casual

• Excellent benefits including salary packaging
• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Ongoing training and development opportunities
• Best practice implementation
• Senior leadership opportunity
• Friendly and supportive team environment
• Friendly and dynamic team
• Progress Your Career Today!
• Excellent Career Progression
• Pro-active & supportive leadership
• Flexible working arrangements
• Work for one of Australia’s leading hospital groups
  
  
  About the Role
  
  You will be accountable for:
  
  
  • Correctly collecting, caring, storing, packaging and labelling pathology specimens
    
  • Providing a high quality pathology service to requesting doctors and patients
    
  • Greeting patients in a friendly and courteous manner and interviewing patients to ascertain key information for identification purposes
    
  • Referring Doctor/s information
    
  • Collection of category and billing information
    
  • Explaining procedures to patient and providing written instructions as appropriate
    
  • Collecting the required specimen(s), place in suitably labelled containers, fix laboratory number stickers, store and transport appropriately
    
  • Couriering specimens / reports from the collection location to the required destination if required
    
  
  
  Your Contribution
  
  
  • Certificate 3 or 4 in Pathology Collection
    
  • Experience in a Pathology collection service is highly desirable, preferably previous experience in the points listed above.
    
  • Highly developed customer service and communication skills (both verbal and written)
    
  
  
  What we Offer
  
  
  • Flexibility – there are shifts available 7 days per week, AM and PM and all over Melbourne. Pick shifts close to your house and on the days you are free to work!
    
  • A great work/life balance
    
  • Salary Packaging – Increase your take home pay!
    
  • Employee Assistance Program
    
  • Ability to join Fitness Passport - Your pass to an extensive choice of fitness facilities
    
  • Discounts and Promotions always available through our Foundation
    
  • Career development & advancement encouraged
    
  • Culture of continuous improvement
    
  
  
  About Pathology
  St Vincent’s Pathology is a private practice offering diagnostic testing to both inpatients of St Vincent’s Private Hospitals located in Fitzroy, East Melbourne and Kew, St Vincent’s Public Hospital Fitzroy as well as servicing privately referred patients in up to 80 Pathology Collection centres located across Metropolitan Melbourne.
  
  
  Working at St Vincent’s
  St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) is a leading teaching, research and tertiary health service. SVHM provides a diverse range of adult clinical services and is driven by values of Compassion, Justice, Integrity and Excellence.
  
  Application
  
  Please attach your resume and cover letter to your application.
  
  Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced.
  We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is essential to our mission and diversity reflects the community we serve.
  Please visit our website, for further information regarding our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment at SVHM.
  SVHA has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases in healthcare settings. You may therefore be required to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccinations (including flu vaccinations).
  This position is subject to a Victorian government direction regarding vaccination against COVID-19. Successful applicants must meet these vaccination requirements. Please contact us if you would like to know more.