Permanent positions available
Part Time positions (Grade 2) available
Excellent benefits, including Salary Packaging
About the Role
You will be accountable for:
Correctly collecting, caring, storing, packaging and labelling pathology specimens
Providing a high quality pathology service to requesting doctors and patients
Greeting patients in a friendly and courteous manner and interviewing patients to ascertain key information for identification purposes
Referring Doctor/s information
Collection of category and billing information
Explaining procedures to patient and providing written instructions as appropriate
Collecting the required specimen(s), place in suitably labelled containers, fix laboratory number stickers, store and transport appropriately
Couriering specimens / reports from the collection location to the required destination if required
Permanent and Part - Time roles available in locations all over Melbourne - For a list of St Vincent’s Pathology Collections Centres, please visit - https://path.svhm.org.au/collection-centres/collection-centres
Salary Range: Collector Grade 2 IN24 - $31.65
Collector Mobile IN25 - $36.46
Your Contribution
Certificate 3 or 4 in Pathology Collection
Experience in a Pathology collection service is highly desirable, preferably previous experience in the points listed above.
Highly developed customer service and communication skills (both verbal and written)
What we Offer
Flexibility – there are shifts available 7 days per week, AM and PM and all over Melbourne. Pick shifts close to your house and on the days, you are free to work!
A great work/life balance
Salary Packaging – Increase your take home pay!
Employee Assistance Program
Ability to join Fitness Passport - Your pass to an extensive choice of fitness facilities
Discounts and Promotions always available through our Foundation
Career development & advancement encouraged
Culture of continuous improvement
About Pathology
St Vincent’s Pathology is a private practice offering diagnostic testing to both inpatients of St Vincent’s Private Hospitals located in Fitzroy, East Melbourne and Kew, St Vincent’s Public Hospital Fitzroy as well as servicing privately referred patients in up to 80 Pathology Collection centres located across Metropolitan Melbourne.
Application
Please attach your resume and cover letter to your application.
Please include a copy of your Cert III or Cert IV along with your resume.
Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is essential to our mission and diversity reflects the community we serve.
Please visit our website, for further information regarding our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment at SVHM.
SVHA has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases in healthcare settings. You may therefore be required to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccinations (including flu vaccinations).
This position is subject to a Victorian government direction regarding vaccination against COVID-19. Successful applicants must meet these vaccination requirements. Please contact us if you would like to know more.
30 May 2026 11:59pm
At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
For further information, visit https /www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at indigenouscareers@svha.org.au
View Reconciliation Action Plan
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
