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Histotech – Bronx, NY
Benefits:
- Nutrition Counseling
- Weight Watchers
- Fitness Programs
- Smoking Cessation
- Employee Assistance Program
- Healing Arts Program
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Life, Accident & Business Travel Insurance
- Paid time off for illness, vacation & holidays
- Disability benefits to protect your income
- Tax Deferred Annuity 403(b)
Job Description
Responsible for the laboratory testing of blood, urine, and body fluids for disease diagnosis and health maintenance. Utilizing the latest advances in computer technology, the Division maintains millions of dollars of state-of-the-art automated equipment at its laboratory sites and services hospitals, nursing homes, faculty practices, and voluntary physicians' offices at more than 40 sites.
The Clinical Lab Technologist will prepare pathological slides for diagnostic procedures for grossing biopsies.
Histotech (Healthcare Sciences)
Job Responsibilities
Position Title: Histotech
Shifts Available:
- Monday-Friday, 3:00pm to 11:30pm
Location: Bronx, NY
Skills and abilities of a Histotech includes:
- Run tissue processor to produce paraffin blocks
- Embed pathology specimen to view all layers
- Cut Pathology specimens on rotary microtome
- Stain routine Hematoxylin Eosin to view tissue section, stain routine special stains (GMS, AFB, PAS) in order to identify organism or specific tissue elements
- Enzyme histochemistry (leder esterase)
- Perform order entry and update on LISA to bill special stains
- Label and sign out slides to assure accurate distribution of cases
- Cover slipper (manual and automated), to ensure there is no water or air bubble under coverslip
- Perform on all routine work, quality control to ensure high standard in the laboratory
- Record equipment maintenance to ensure proper operation of equipment
- Prepare solutions to ensure correct histological processing
- Process requests from pathology residents and attendings to ensure that work order is complete
- Assist in Immunohistochemistry procedure to identify antigens
- File paraffin blocks and slides
- Prioritize duties, tissue handling, sign out of cases
- Trouble shoot technical procedures
- Perform other duties in the department as needed
Histotech (Healthcare Sciences)
Job Requirements
Successful candidates for the Histotech:
- Position requires at least a Bachelor’s degree in a physical science, medical technology preferred
- 2 years of work experience preferred
- New York State Department of Education Clinical Laboratory Technologist License is required and at least 2 years’ experience in grossing biopsies
- Must have experience operating the following equipment: Rotary microtome, Laboratory Information System, Scales, Microwave, pH meter, Automated cover slipper, Microscope, Embedding Center, Tissue processor, Water bath, Cryoplate, Incubator oven
Histotech (Healthcare Sciences)
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