Specimen Entry Officer - Pathology
Full-time Permanent
Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
Flexible working conditions.
Access to Employee Assistance Program.
Access to onsite Physiotherapists.
Access to onsite cafes, staff cafeteria, pharmacy and gift shop.
About the Role:
ACT Pathology provides essential diagnostic services to hospitals, healthcare providers, and the broader community across the ACT, operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
As a Specimen Entry Officer, you'll play a vital role in supporting patient care by ensuring pathology requests and specimens are accurately processed and tracked.
A typical day may involve registering specimens into the Laboratory Information System (LIS), preparing and distributing samples to laboratory areas, managing incoming and outgoing pathology requests, responding to telephone enquiries, and helping ensure results and specimens reach the right destination on time.
Working as part of a supportive team in a fast-paced laboratory environment, you'll contribute to the accurate and productive delivery of diagnostic services that clinicians and patients rely on every day.
This role operates on a rotating 24-hour, 7-day roster and offers the opportunity to gain experience in a critical healthcare service.
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care.




It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community-based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region.
More information can be found on the CHS website .
Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
Our Vision:
creating exceptional health care together
Our Role:
to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values:
Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind
CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace.
As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.
The ACT public service is committed to closing the gap, underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved.
More information can be found here ACT Closing the Gap Implementation Plan - ACT Government Transparency Portal .
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📌 Specimen Entry Officer - Pathology | Full-Time Permanent (Canberra)
🏢 Australian Capital Territory
📍 Canberra