Medical Laboratory Scientist

4 hours ago


Auckland City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

Permanent full time
- Epsom, Auckland
- Do you have a passion for blood banking?

About New Zealand Blood and Organ 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 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
The National Reference Laboratory is based in Epsom and has a strong team-based structure, performing a variety of pre-transfusion testing.
**The role involves**:

- Investigating antibody problems and provision of cross-matched blood
- Resolving ABO and Rh(D) typing problems
- Monitoring levels (by titration) of antibodies found during routine antenatal screening
- Ensuring that all activities are carried out in a manner that complies with national defined quality standards, accreditation licensing and legislative requirements
- Solving complex and difficult red cell antigen/antibody problems with the use of red cell genotyping and a unique collection of rare typing sera and rare red cells.

The role will require you to participate when competent, in a 24/7 out of hours on call service equally divided amongst the Reference team.
Your base salary will be between $ 74,842 and $ 101,741 depending on skills, experience and registration.
**We can offer you**:

- A positive working environment where you will be working with a highly motivated and dedicated group of scientists who will support you as you develop your skills in this specialised Laboratory
- A great environment within our brand new refurbished laboratory
- Opportunity to take your existing blood banking experience to in-depth investigations
- Working both collaboratively within the team as well as independently being responsible for your own investigations.

About you
We are currently looking for a Registered Medical Laboratory Scientist with significant blood banking experience to join our experienced Auckland team. If you have a strong sense of professional responsibility and are able to work both independently and co-operatively as part of a small professional team, then we would like to hear from you.



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