Pathology Lab Assistant-Ischemia Technician

Summit Pathology
Is looking to add an enthusiastic team player to our fast-paced, growing pathology company, as a Pathology Lab Assistant Ischemia Technician. The Ischemia Technician assists with the handling of breast specimens at Centrum Surgical Center in Greenwood Village, CO. This full-time position is split between being on-site at Centrum Surgical Center, when needed for breast excisions/frozen sections, and remote. The remote duties include helping resolve issues related to patient information, demographics, and billing through LIS queues. This involves daily interaction with clients, Summit's billing company, and other members of the administration team. 
Application deadline is Monday, May 5th at 10:00 PM Mountain Time.
 
As a Pathology Lab Assistant Ischemia Technician, you will interact closely with pathologists, pathologists' assistants, hospital leads, and Centrum Surgery Center staff.

Who We Are: 
Summit Pathology is an independent pathology laboratory, owned by a practice of board-certified pathologists. We have been serving hospital systems and physician offices in Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska for more than thirty-five years. With a variety of subspecialties, Summit Pathology offers world class expertise, state of the art disease detection and exceptional customer service. We take pride in providing outstanding general surgical pathology as well as high level expertise in additional areas such as breast pathology, cytopathology, hematopathology (including flow cytometry), gastrointestinal pathology, dermatopathology, transfusion medicine, microbiology and clinical chemistry.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Responsible for assessing the specimen quality, making necessary corrections, and preparing breast specimens for transport, grossing, and processing 
• Ink and slice breast excision specimens to achieve CAP recommended cold ischemia time of less than one hour 
• Assist Pathologist or other physicians with frozen specimens including training on cutting frozen sections 
• Responsible for cleaning, decontaminating, and reassembly of the cryostat per established protocol 
• Handle inventory, upkeep, and organization of the Centrum Pathology Room.   
• Maintain stain lines and completion of all maintenance logs when on-site 
• Assist with Breast Conference Tumor Board prep for the pathologists   Assist with on-site accreditation inspections 
• Resolve issues related to patient information, demographics, and billing through LIS queues. 
• Involvement in meetings and projects related to revenue cycle management and improvement.
• Demonstrate behaviors consistent with Summit Pathology values, management expectations, and service standards 
• Demonstrate positive customer interactions and good service recovery skills   Maintain patient confidentiality 
• Provide appropriate reasoning ability and good independent judgment 
• Work and communicate cooperatively with team members to identify and complete lab responsibilities and meet department goals 
• Follow all procedures and policies and demonstrate competency and proficiency as required 
• Follow safety standards in all aspects of performance of the above functions, report/remove unsafe equipment, and attend safety education sessions   Maintain regular and punctual attendance 
• Perform other additional duties, responsibilities, and tasks as required 

Minimum Qualifications/Requirements:

Education/experience: 1. An earned associate degree in a chemical or biological science or medical laboratory technology, obtained from an accredited institution, OR 2. Education/training equivalent to the above that includes the following:  

•  60 semester hours or equivalent from an accredited institution. This education must include 24 semester hours of medical laboratory technology courses, OR 24 semester hours of science courses that includes six semester hours of chemistry, six semester hours of biology, and 12 semester hours of chemistry, biology, or medical laboratory technology in any combination, AND 

• Laboratory training including either completion of a clinical laboratory training program approved or accredited by the ABHES, CAAHEP (note that this training may be included in the 60 semester hours listed above), OR at least three months of recorded laboratory training in each specialty in which the individual performs high complexity testing. 
• Ability to work independently and to effectively problem-solve issues.
• Ability to organize work and meet deadlines.
• Ability to maintain necessary level of confidentiality to protect patient privacy.
• Excellent customer service skills
• Knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, including medical terminology.
• Previous grossing of anatomic pathology specimens is preferred.

Benefits for a full time employee are as follows: 

• Starting pay for this position is $22/hr
• Five (5) Medical Insurance options by Cigna
• Four (4) Dental Insurance options by Cigna of Alpha Dental
• Vision Insurance by Cigna 
• Paid Time Off & Holiday Pay
• 401K Plan - Ascensus 
• Benefit offerings by ID Shield - Identity Theft Protection, Legal Shield - Legal Protection, TeleHealth 

Summit Pathology Laboratory is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination or harassment of any kind. Summit Pathology is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual experience and qualifications, without regard to a person's race, color, age, sex, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, religion, creed, national origin, the presence of any physical or mental disability, or status as a disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, other protected veteran, or Armed Forces service medal veteran, or any other protected status. 

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