Laboratory Manager

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: The Royal Women's Hospital

Salary : Salary not specified

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**Laboratory Manager

• Reproductive Services**
• Full time (38 hours per week)
• Ongoing Position

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

The Reproductive Services Unit (RSU) provides a comprehensive service for people requiring assistance, support or treatment for infertility and potential infertility. Within RSU is the IVF Laboratory where we offer assistance with:

• Investigation of infertility
• Treatment to resolve conditions which affect fertility
• Assistance for people to achieve a pregnancy through IVF, artificial insemination, donor insemination and ovulation induction
• Protecting fertility prior to treatments which may damage fertility, such as chemotherapy

The Laboratory lies at the crux of the suite of services that RSU provides to its patients.

Your contribution

As the Laboratory Manager you will oversee and direct all the technical and administrative operation of the IVF laboratory regarding the collection, inspection, manipulation, processing of human oocytes, sperm and embryos and other related aspects of IVF. You will also undertake and/or supervise the conduct of research projects as related to the laboratory aspects of IVF.

Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Manage all technical and operational activity of the laboratory services
• Lead and inspire the laboratory team
• Review and update laboratory methodology, policies, protocols and procedures
• Maintain Laboratory Quality Systems to fulfil requirements of ISO9001 and RTAC Code of Practice.

About you

To be successful within this role you will need to have:

• Bachelor of Science or equivalent
• Minimum of 10 years of directly relevant experience, utilising advanced and specialised professional knowledge and experience in clinical embryology; thorough knowledge of tissue culture, assisted reproductive technologies and relevant andrology procedures
• Experience leading a team in a medical laboratory (desirable)

Our offering

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the exceptional in your everyday.

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.

Ready to make the move?

**COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement***

Please be aware that in line with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all workers at the Women's regardless of role, will be required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

Influenza Vaccination Requirement

In line with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, some health care workers are now required to have their flu vaccination to work in health care. Evidence of vaccination is required

As this role fits into category A or B of the departments risk ratings, applicants will be required to have been vaccinated against influenza. Evidence of vaccination is required.

All applicants will be required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status.