Assistant Chief Laboratory Scientist

Job Title: Assistant Chief Laboratory Scientist

Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Department: Diagnostic Services

About the role

• Provides senior supervision of laboratory operations, supporting service leadership, supervising testing and staff, and upholding quality and biosafety.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior supervision of laboratory operations, supporting the deputy/head in leading the service.
• Supervise laboratory testing and section work, ensuring standards and throughput.
• Support rostering, workload allocation and skill-mix.
• Support biosafety compliance, audit and quality assurance.
• Supervise, support and appraise junior laboratory staff.

Requirements
Education:

• Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science (BMLS) from a recognised institution.
• Completion of the required national internship and NYSC, or a valid exemption where applicable.

Experience:

• Minimum of 8 years of post-registration experience in the relevant profession, including experience at Principal grade or equivalent.
• Substantial post-registration experience in medical laboratory science practice.
• Experience supervising and supporting junior medical laboratory science staff.
• Experience contributing to quality assurance and service improvement.

Required skills:

• Strong knowledge of laboratory practice across disciplines and of quality management.
• Ability to supervise rostering, section supervision and skill-mix.
• Ability to support biosafety, quality assurance and external quality assurance.
• Incident escalation and equipment/vendor liaison skills.
• Staff supervision and appraisal skills.

Application Closing Date
6th October, 2026.

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online