Full Time (80 Hours/Biweekly)
Shift: Days (6:30a-3:00p)
Monday - Friday
No weekend or Holiday rotation
General Summary
Performs a variety of technical and general duties at a basic skills and knowledge level.
Essential Functions:
- Precisely and accurately perform a variety of routine and specialized histology techniques in concurrence with established laboratory policies and procedures.
- Responsible for all technical procedures utilized in the preparation of microscopic slides including tissue processing, paraffin block sectioning, and H&E staining.
- Responsible for the production of high-quality slides from frozen or fixed tissues. This will include trimming, embedding, processing, sectioning using a microtome/cryostat, staining with H&E, special stains and immunohistochemistry.
- Performs equipment maintenance, reagent recycling/reclamation and efficient use of the pathology laboratory information system and specimen tracking system.
Common Expectations:
- Demonstrates a commitment to patient, visitor, and staff by: complying with all applicable safety regulations; learning the impact of medical errors and methodology that will lead to reduction of errors; reporting actual and potential errors, as well as hazardous conditions; identifying opportunities to standardize processes and "error proof" systems that will lead to increased safety; and participating in safety education programs and root cause analyses as required.
- Maintains established policies and procedures, objectives, quality assessment, safety, environmental and infection control standards.
- Participates in educational programs and in-service meetings.
- Provides outstanding service to all customers; fosters teamwork; and practices fiscal responsibility through improvement and innovation.
- Prepares solutions, reagents, etc. used for testing purposes.
- Assists with care and maintenance of department equipment and supplies.
