JOB SUMMARY:
Position is responsible for various duties supporting lab procedures including accessioning tissue specimens.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Functions as a Senior Path Support with analysis and problem resolution; maintaining productive and proactive communication with off-site management; promoting a team-work environment; and assist with day to day operations, SOPs, training, workload assessments, and process evaluations.
- Accession all tissue specimens and make cassettes.
- Assist pathologist and pathologist assistants in cutting room.
- Assist with frozen sections (location dependent).
- Properly hang tissue on the processors (location dependent).
- Responsible for determining/selecting specimens for grossing.
- Photograph specimens (Polaroid, digital, and 35 mm).
- Prepare tissue to be sent out for further testing such as Lymphoma Phenotyping, Quantitative Iron studies, etc.
- Operate the Faxitron machine for specimen radiographs.
- Check campus surgery schedules for probable frozen sections, collect specimens from all campus surgery locations ensuring they are properly listed, and check the surgery board for add cases, cancels, and late specimens (location dependent).
- Records the number of cases daily, maintains the log of decal specimens, and keeps quality control charts on equipment in the accession and cutting room.
- Prepare routine solutions, maintain an inventory of supplies and store in proper location and keep a clean work area.
- Responsible for proper disposal and handling of hazardous waste to include xylene recycling (i.e. xylene, reagent alcohol, formaldehyde, B5) and dispose of specimens according to procedures.
- Perform routine maintenance on cryostats, both in house and in outlying hospitals (location dependent).
- Run Quality Control reports, extracting data into monthly reports to Anatomic Pathology. (location dependent)
- Receive incoming calls and answer questions about reports/handling tissue. (location dependent)
- Review procedure manuals and stay current with procedural changes that have occurred.
- Exercise all laboratory safety precautions and adhere to lab procedures as stated in procedure manuals.
- Perform all job responsibilities in alignment with the industry's best security practices and regulatory guidelines to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected health information and other sensitive company data.
- Must be familiar with and abide by the Corporate Compliance Program and all Corporate policies, including the Privacy and Security policies.
Qualifications
EDUCATION & LICENSURE:
- High school diploma or GED is required.
EXPERIENCE:
- Two to five years of prior job related experience is required.
- Ability to prioritize duties and attentiveness to detail required.
- Computer proficiency with a minimum typing speed of 50 words-per-minute required.
- Pathology technical skills and medical terminology experience is preferred.
- Effective oral and written communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills required.
- High attention to detail and superior accuracy required.
