Overview:
To promote research and development and maintain first world laboratory medicine and practice refined and specific procedures to achieve a final diagnosis for clinical application.
Responsibilities:
- Co-manage research and development with a Medical Scientist or Pathologist.
- Publish peer-reviewed articles.
- Training and co-supervision of staff, intern scientists, technologists and students including involvement in the development and delivery of training programs and/or other tools.
- Manage and take accountability for the integrity of data and/or results captured by technical and/or clerical staff.
- Ensure that the maintenance logs are accurate, up to date, accessible and retrievable.
- Conduct tests and/or procedures independently, interprets and authorizes results.
- Provide input into scientific changes, enhancements to SOPs.
- Participation in development and validation of new tests.
- Producing standard and complex reports.
- Solves standard/routine technical problems independently (e.g. controls not working); reports persistent problems.
- Perform equipment maintenance, root cause analysis and interprets results of internal quality assessment tests.
- Maintenance and administration carried out according to internal and external requirements.
- Participation in Quality Management which includes identification of quality related problems and resolving them and active participation in maintaining SANAS accreditation.
- Development and validation of new diagnostic methodology or significant modifications to existing scientific applications/procedures.
Required Qualifications:
- MSc or equivalent in Medical Science or relevant field/PhD.
- Registered with HPCSA/SACNASP (NIOH), SAIOH (NIOH). May not be applicable for research positions.
- ³ 3 years’ experience as scientist.
- Peer-reviewed journal manuscript/s or book chapters as first author or co-authored publications.
- Successfully supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students – BSc Hons, MMed, MSc.
- Experience in funding, development and validation of new tests, producing standard and complex reports, co-managing project finances.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Communication Skills.
- Customer care.
- Interpersonal skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to work under pressure and deal with high work volumes while keeping abreast with academic literature.
- Computer literacy skills.
- Attention to detail.
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