Description:
Employment Type : Temporary Full Time (Up to 01/08/2027)Position Classification : Senior Scientific Officer
Location : Nepean Hospital
Remuneration : $56.69 - $74.41 per hour
Hours Per Week : 38
Requisition ID : REQ549388
Applications Close : 24/03/2025
With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment,
working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed
and develop in your chosen career role.
About Us
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.
Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital that provides tertiary referral services in emergency care, coronary care, diagnostics, gynaecology, paediatric, neonatal intensive care/ICU, maternity, mental health, rehabilitation, and surgery. The Nepean Campus has recently experienced tremendous growth and aims to support communities within and outside of Sydney’s western suburbs, providing world-class clinical facilities, services, and care.
The successful incumbent is responsible to the Professor of Paediatrics and Clinical Director of Women’s and Children’s Health. The role will be primarily based within research pertaining to Women’s and Children’s Health and work closely with interdisciplinary teams across the hospital and with the Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney. Additionally, this role is responsible for facilitating, supervising and conducting research projects which are mainly laboratory based.We invite you to take this next step in your career with us. Apply Today!
Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees
• Accrued Day Off (ADO)
• Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
• Novated Leasing
• Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
• Fitness Passport
NBMLHD is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; people living with disability; people from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background; people who identify as LGBTQI+, people with a lived experience of mental health concerns and people of mature age.
NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here Child Safe Standards.
For assistance with applying through the NSW Health Career Portal please click here.
What you will bring to the role
- Extensive experience in both preclinical and clinical studies and proven track record of working with both clinicians and scientists. Demonstrated experience in disease models particularly allergies, autoimmunity, infectious diseases, metabolism and pregnancy and early life studies.
- Tertiary qualifications of at least PhD, with experience in leading projects – from securing funding, gaining ethics and governance approvals, managing the finances, and completing the data for publication in international journals and at conferences.
- Highly competitive track record (publications and citations) and ability to write grants/fellowship to obtain funding. Proven leadership and management skills and experience including operational management, staff and resource management.
- Highly experienced in bioinformatics, proficient in either R or python, and the use of high-performance computing systems. Experience with bulk and single cell RNAseq analysis and microbiome/metagenomic analysis is essential. Able to perform large scale data integration and machine learning for classification and prediction.
- High level of competence and experience in laboratory work, including cell culture, molecular biology, microbiology and experience with working with gut microbiota extracellular vesicles.
- Experience in metabolomics (sample processing and data analysis) using technologies like nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry.
- Competent in flow cytometry including spectral flow cytometry, and data analysis using t-SNE or UMAP
- Experience with nutritional studies in both preclinical and clinical setting as well as nutritional geometry analysis.
Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.
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For role related queries or questions contact Ralph Nanan on ***********@health.nsw.gov.au