Medical Laboratory Technician

2 weeks ago


Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand New Zealand Blood Service Full time
Medical Laboratory Technician - Component Processing & Cellular Therapy Laboratory, Christchurch
  • Permanent, full time
  • Exciting fast paced manufacturing laboratory
  • Expand your knowledge and learn new skills

Work in a role where you know what you do contributes to a positive outcome to the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders

About New Zealand and Organ Blood Service

New Zealand Blood and Organ Service (NZBS) is dedicated to saving lives. Every year, tens of thousands of generous people donate their time, blood and plasma to us for free. In addition to our vein-to-vein service in transfusion, we also provide national services in organ transplantation, cellular therapies and tissue banking. We exist to ensure the efficient delivery of safe blood and tissue products on a time critical basis throughout New Zealand and through the generosity of our donors; we are able to help save lives.

Our shared values are at the heart of our organisation's culture and guide our behaviour each and every day. These values inspire, motivate us and drive us to provide the very best service to the New Zealand public.

Watch this video to see what our people say about the NZBS values they admire the most

About the role

This is a great opportunity for a Medical Laboratory Technician to learn new skills by joining our Component Processing Laboratory who are responsible for a range of duties including processing of blood and blood products, quality and process control procedures.

If successful, you will be trained to:

  • Manufacture pooled platelets from buffy coats
  • Manufacture cryoprecipitate from plasma
  • Manufacture resuspended red cell, buffy coats and plasma from whole blood
  • Perform quality control testing on the products we manufacture such as bacterial testing.

You will be joining a well-established team of Scientists and Technicians committed to quality service, high standards and patient well-being.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will:

  • Be Registered with the Medical Sciences Council as a Medical Laboratory Technician
  • Be able to demonstrate excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills
  • Have the ability to achieve the targets and objectives of the service.
  • Have a positive attitude
  • Have the ability to work as part of a close-knit team
  • Be flexible to fully participate in our roster that also includes evening and weekend work.

Experience in a Component Processing Laboratory or other medical laboratory is advantageous but not essential.

So, if you are registered as a Medical Laboratory Technician with the NZ Medical Sciences Council and are looking for a rewarding role, then this role could be for you.

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