You’ll need
Education
✓High school diploma or equivalent (e.g., GED or HiSET).
Qualifications
✓Minimum of 2 years of experience working in an Anatomic Pathology laboratory.
✓Ability to provide coverage at Santa Monica and West Valley Surgical Pathology Reporting Offices, as needed.
✓Familiarity with safe handling and packaging requirements for pathology materials, including glass microscopic slides and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue.
✓Ability to multitask and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
✓Ability to adapt to changing priorities and respond promptly to high-priority requests.
✓Experience working in Epic or an equivalent laboratory information system.
✓Capable of meeting physical demands, including standing, walking, reaching, bending, kneeling, ascending/descending, extending/contracting, and rotating/pivoting.
✓Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. and push or pull up to 1200 lbs. of palletized boxes using a pallet jack.
✓Must accurately read fine print for extended periods.
Full employer posting
- Description As a Hospital Laboratory Technician 2, you will play a crucial role in supporting the operations of our Surgical Pathology Reporting offices. Your primary responsibilities will include:
- Manage microscopic slide inventories, including the preparation/packaging of biohazardous waste for pickup by contracted waste management vendors.
- Receive, sort, and file microscopic slides.
- Pull slides for Tumor Board, conferences, education, pathologist review and other departmental needs.
- Visit the offsite warehouse to pull/file materials and package biohazardous waste for waste management transport.
- Provide exceptional service to faculty, patients, couriers, and vendors.
- Perform daily departmental runs to pickup and deliver slides.
- Process tissue requests for clinical trial submissions, continuation of care, and ancillary testing.
- Release surgical pathology specimens to patients and manufacturers.
- Accessioning pathology cases for add-on immunohistochemistry, special stains, and electron microscopy.
- Coordinate with patients, OR Scheduling and clinical teams to schedule bone marrow aspirations.
- Perform general office tasks (answer phones, respond to emails, scan documents into the EMR, send/receive faxes).
- Digitally scan slides for telepathology applications.
- Provide coverage at the Santa Monica and West Valley Surgical Pathology Reporting Offices, as needed. Salary Range: $36.49/hour - $48.13/hour Qualifications
- Minimum of 2 years of experience working in an Anatomic Pathology laboratory.
- High school diploma or equivalent (e.g., GED or HiSET).
- Ability to provide coverage at Santa Monica and West Valley Surgical Pathology Reporting Offices, as needed.
- Familiarity with safe handling and packaging requirements for pathology materials, including glass microscopic slides and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue.
- Ability to multitask and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities and respond promptly to high-priority requests.
- Experience working in Epic or an equivalent laboratory information system.
- Capable of meeting physical demands, including standing, walking, reaching, bending, kneeling, ascending/descending, extending/contracting, and rotating/pivoting.
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. and push or pull up to 1200 lbs. of palletized boxes using a pallet jack.
- Must accurately read fine print for extended periods.
About the role
As a Hospital Laboratory Technician 2, you will play a crucial role in supporting the operations of our Surgical Pathology Reporting offices.