CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

We want you to join us!

At Innoquest, we provide our employees on-the-job training with the objective to enhance their job skills and knowledge with day-to-day practical work applications and experience. We take pride and strive to excel in the roles we undertake and perform through our healthcare expertise to help doctors diagnose and treat patients correctly.

We offer talented and motivated individuals immense rewarding growth and development opportunities. Your career journey at Innoquest will be inspiring, exciting and challenging with our advance total laboratory automation system and technology. If you are interested in any of the roles listed below and have what it takes to be part of our Innoquest family, submit your professional work resume via our e-portal and register your interest with us NOW.

For further job enquiries, kindly reach out to us at hr@innoquest.com.my.

POSITIONS

Medical Technologists conduct laboratory tests, procedures, experiments, and analyses of specimens within certain turnaround time to provide data for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. They analyse bodily fluids like blood, urine, and spinal fluid, to determine the presence of normal and abnormal components. They usually have a Diploma or University degree in Laboratory Sciences, e.g. Biomedical, Life, Medical, Pharmaceutical. Departments available in our main lab include Pathology, Serology, Microbiology, Haematology, Biochemistry, Immunology, Molecular and Special Chemistry.

Phlebotomists are tasked to collect specimens from patients’ bodies such as blood via venipunture or swabs from a wound for lab tests ordered by doctors. They usually have Nursing certifications or Phlebotomy qualification from a training institution/ college.

IT Professionals like Application Developers, Network and System Analyst, who use coding to write programs, are in demand to enhance the efficiency and security of our Lab Information System. Other IT roles include assisting the users with troubleshooting, software installation, managing infrastructure, etc.

HR plays a vital role in creating an employee-oriented and productive workforce as a business partner in areas including but not limiting to Recruitment, Training and Development, Talent Management, Payroll, Compensation and Benefits, etc.

Despatch Riders and Porters are trained to transport specimens and timely deliver medical reports and other materials, such as consumables/ collection supplies, from our laboratory to our healthcare facilities and clinics.

Turnaround Times

We understand the importance of timely results which is crucial for cancer patient management.

Result turnaround times for our assays are class-leading, ranging from approximately 4 to 14 working days from specimen receipt in our laboratory.

Estimated turnaround times for some of our assays upon receiving the specimen in our laboratory –

  1. OncoStrands™ Essential Panel – within 5 working days
  2. OncoStrands™ DNA 68 Panel – within 10 working days
  3. OncoStrands™ Extended Panel – within 10 working days
  4. OncoStrands™ Comprehensive Fusion Panel – within 10 working days
  5. OncoStrands™ Comprehensive Panel – within 14 working days

Consistency

LifeStrands participates in a variety of national and international Quality Assurance Programs, not only to satisfy the conditions for fulfilling on-going accreditation and compliance requirements but also to maintain the highest standards and reliability of our test results.

We are currently enrolled in the following Quality Assurance Programs – 

  1. RCPA QAP
  2. CAP PT program, and
  3. EMQN 

Cost

We use currently available Medicare rebateable items for all types of solid tumour testing offered through our laboratory. Given below is the list of Medicare items and tests utilised against each item, for which there is no out of pocket cost for eligible patients –

  1. NSCLC – Medicare # 73437 (DNA variants : EGFR, BRAF, KRAS and MET; fusions: ALK, ROS1, RET, NTRK1/2/3), Essential Combined panel
  2. NSCLC – Medicare # 73438 (EGFR, BRAF, KRAS, MET), Essential DNA panel
  3. NSCLC – Medicare # 73351 (EGFR T790), Essential DNA panel
  4. NSCLC – Medicare # 73439 (ALK, ROS1, RET, NTRK1/2/3), Essential Fusion panel
  5. Colorectal cancer – Medicare # 73338 (KRAS, NRAS), Essential DNA panel
  6. Melanoma – Medicare # 73336 (BRAF), Essential DNA panel
  7. Glioma (Including Glioneuronal Tumour, Glioblastoma) – Medicare # 73429 (IDH1/2, 1p19q co-deletion, others), Neuro-oncology panel
  8. Glioblastoma – Medicare # 73373, MGMT methylation
  9. Secretory ca breast/salivary – Medicare # 73433 (NTRK 1/2/3 fusions), Essential RNA panel
  10. Tumour agnostic <18 yrs (Paediatric) – Medicare # 73433 (NTRK 1/2/3 fusions), Essential RNA panel
  11. Prostate – Medicare # 73303 (BRCA1/2), Extended panel
  12. Ovarian – Medicare # 73301 (BRCA1/2), Extended panel
  13. Ovarian – Medicare # 73307 (HRD, BRCA1/2), Comprehensive + HRD panel
  14. Sarcoma – Medicare # 73376, Comprehensive Fusion panel

Please contact LifeStrands Genomics Australia for tests that attract out-of-pocket fees.

Quality

Our laboratory is full accredited for compliance with NPAAC standards and ISO 15189.

We are the first Australian laboratory to receive full accreditation by the College of American Pathologists (CAP), and the first Australian laboratory to hold dual NATA and CAP accreditations.