Histologist Lead - Lab AdminGeneral

Summary:

The Histologist Lead, assists with cuts, stains, and mounts specimens of human tissue to provide data on functioning of tissues and organs, causes and/or progress of disease, following established standards and practices.

CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital - San Marcos, which originated in 1923 as Hays County Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Memorial Hospital, opened at its current Wonder World Drive location in 1983. Our staff of more than 700 Associates works with more than 300 active and consulting physicians to provide quality services to patients and their families. For more than 20 consecutive years, we have been named The Best Hospital in Hays County in the annual "Best of Hays" publication released by the San Marcos Daily Record. In addition to interventional cardiac services, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital - San Marcos is a Certified Chest Pain Center and an accredited Primary Stroke Center. We lead the region in da Vinci robotic-assisted surgery and offers a variety of specialty care services including medical imaging, rehabilitation, hospice, women's services and more.

Responsibilities:

• Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
  
• Collects, processes, and stores surgical/cytological specimens
  
• Enters patient information, orders, and technical information into LIS; prints/organizes cassettes
  
• Prepares specimens/slides/blocks for referral
  
• Orders, maintains referral log, processes reports, and monitors pending
  
• Maintains grossing area, frozen section room, and autopsy suite including cleaning and stocking of supplies and preparation of solutions
  
• Performs technical procedures that result in the creation of microscopic slide preparation
  
• Within acceptable TAT guidelines, devises and directs performance of routine and special stains to provide appropriate slides for the microscopic evaluation of tissues, fluids, and other A/P specimens
  
• Operates microtomes, embedding stations, tissue processors, staining equipment, cover slippers and other AP equipment to provide quality slides for pathologist examinations
  
• Operates Immunostainer(s) to provide quality slides for diagnostics immunostains
  
• Performs manual stains, as needed, to provide quality slides for diagnostic immunostains
  
• Assists Pathologist's / PA's with frozen sections, fine needle aspirations, and autopsies
  
• Quality Control / Improvement: performs analysis and records QC according to policy and procedure following CLIA, CAP, and Joint Commission guidelines and standards
  
• Maintenance/Lab Management: performs established daily and periodic preventative maintenance with documentation; troubleshoots minor problems and initiates service calls as needed; orders and restocks supplies/reagents; reviews policy & procedure manual; dates reagents and discards expired reagents
  
• Continuing Education/Development: attends, reads, or listens by tape to material of 10-12 in-house educational programs yearly; trains new staff in practices
  
• Completes tasks or special projects within time frame as assigned, or as requested by Supervisors, Manager, or Director
  
• Accreditation: follows CAP, AABB, Compliance, CLIA, JCAHO, and OSHA standards and prepares/participates in all applicable inspections
  
• Follows established protocols for safety, infection control, security, compliance, and the use of hazardous materials.

Job Requirements:

Education/Skills

• Associate degree preferred.
  

• Successful completion of the core educational curriculum "Excellence at the Front End" required within one year of employment.

  
  

Experience

• 7 years of experience in histopathology is required along with a High school Diploma.
  
• 5 years of experience in histopathology is required along with an Associate's degree.
  

Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications

• Certified Healthcare Access Associate through the National Association of Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM) required.
  
• Histotechnologist (HLT) or Histologic tech (HT) certification by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists certification (ASCP) preferred.

Work Schedule:

Varies

Work Type:

Full Time

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