Pathology Assistant

Job Description

Our client, a not-for-profit teaching hospital serving an ethnically diverse community in New York City, is hiring a Pathology Assistant. The Pathology Assistant will implement the hospital's mission, goals and objectives by exemplifying the short-and-long-term vision, values and goals of the department by providing professional laboratory science services in the department's surgical pathology and autopsy sections, including performance of duties described below.

Responsibilities

• Receive tissue specimens submitted from the operating room, nursing floors and specialty rooms. Such specimens will be checked for appropriate submission, properly numbered and logged.
• Describe the specimens received and descriptions thereafter to be typed into CoPath or completed by secretarial staff.
• Obtain the proper representative tissue specimen for subsequent preparation of appropriate slides; such specimens will be appropriately labeled and indicated in our daily tissue accession log. Prepared slides will thereafter be reviewed.
• Assist in the performance of autopsies.
• Prepare a written Gross Examination Report, to be checked and approved by the Pathologist prior to completion.
• Participate in on-call evenings and weekends, either in the Hospital or at home, to receive telephone calls relating to autopsy consent or other problems within the laboratory service.
  
  

Requirements

• Associate’s Degree or certification equivalent required; Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• 3 years of Pathology Assistant experience
• NYS Pathology Assistant permit
  
  

Salary: The posted range is not a guarantee. The actual salary will be based on qualifications, experience, and education and could fall outside of this range. Contact us for more information.

If you are passionate about what you could accomplish in this role, we would love to hear from you!