Histologic Technician II

Company: Virginia Mason Medical Center
Location: Seattle
Posted on: May 15, 2022

Job Description:

Responsibilities

Located in Seattle, WA, Virginia Mason is an internationally recognized leader in the continuous improvement of health care. With an extensive list of awards and distinctions that includes our recognition as Top Hospital of the Decade by The Leapfrog Group, Virginia Mason offers you the opportunity to partner with exceptionally talented peers at every level. - -You will contribute to the strength of our Team Medicine approach to collaborative medicine and benefit from the changes enacted through our Virginia Mason Production System, a model that has transformed health care by providing patients with easier access to care, reducing errors, and continuously innovating patient safety and quality that has been adopted by other organizations here and abroad. Join us, and find out how many ways Virginia Mason offers you the chance to focus on what really matters - our patients. - -This position prepares and stains tissue specimens for microscopic examinations by the pathologist to demonstrate disease processes.This position performs histology techniques including processing, imbedding, cutting, staining, gross dictation, and special procedures, clerical duties, including accessing specimens in the computer, billing, ordering tests and worksheets, file blocks, matching slides and pathology reports, and recording work load; provides general laboratory maintenance such as making re-agents, changing machines, daily cleaning, and filling fixative bottles and performs quality control procedures, proficiency testing, and employ safety standards.
Qualifications
This position requires:

• An understanding of anatomy, chemistry, mathematics, immunology, microtomy staining
• Excellent hand-eye coordination
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• The ability to be organized.
• HT (ASCP) requiredJust as Virginia Mason is dedicated to improving the lives of our patients and our community, we are equally dedicated to your professional and personal success. With a wide range of perks that includes a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, and the opportunity to live in one of the - most livable cities in the country, you will find that an opportunity with Team Medicine is one worth taking. - - -We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
  

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