Medical Laboratory Technician

1 week ago

Auckland City, New Zealand NZ Blood Service (NZBS) Full time

Permanent, full time

  • NZ's Largest Blood Bank
  • Exciting fast paced environment
  • Grafton based

**Be directly involved in contributing to someone's care every single day and know that what you do really does make a difference**

**About the role**

The NZBS Blood Bank based at Auckland Hospital is New Zealand's largest Blood Bank testing between 200-250 samples per day. This is an exciting and fast paced environment, often responding immediately in emergency situations for patients in need. What makes this role different to other Technician roles, is at the end of the day, you know that you have been directly involved in someone's care.

As a **Medical Laboratory Technician** you will be responsible for performing a range of duties related to pre transfusion, antenatal and diagnostic testing and the issue of blood and blood products for clinical purposes. You will be joining a well-established team of Scientists and Technicians committed to quality service and high standards and patient well-being.

Your base salary will be between $65,842 to $86,719 depending on skills, experience and registration.

**About you**

To be successful in this role you must be registered as a Medical Laboratory Technician with the Medical Sciences Council of NZ. You will have a positive attitude, be committed to patient care and have the flexibility to fully participate in our 24-hour, 7-day roster. The ability to multi-task, work collaboratively and respond quickly in a fast-paced environment is essential in this role and key to your success as part of this high performing team.

We are looking for someone who has/is

  • Experience in transfusion science or a related discipline
  • Experience working in a Blood Bank would be preferred, but not essential
  • Flexibility to fully participate in our 24-hour, 7-day per week roster
  • Effective interpersonal and communication skills
  • Positive attitude
  • Self-motivated
  • Ability to take responsibility.

**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 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.

**If you can tick all of those boxes and are looking for a fantastic opportunity to join the team NZ's largest and busiest Blood Bank, then we would like to hear from you now.

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