Histotechnologist/technician

Histotechnologist Opportunity

We are looking for passionate and caring Histotechnologists to join our team of skilled professionals and provide health care services to our veterans and their families at a Federal Medical Center in West Haven, CT.

Great opportunity to be credentialed within a national healthcare organization!

Responsibilities include:

• Performs specimen collection, accessioning, and logging routines
• May be responsible to make scheduled rounds within the facility to pick up surgical specimens.
• Checks each specimen for criteria of acceptability, assuring proper patient identification, specimen integrity and appropriate paperwork.
• Records the receipt of specimens and assigns identification number according to department and/or facility protocol
• Refers any problem specimen to the area of collection and informs the supervisor
• Assists pathologists with tissue grossing procedures; prepares the tissue grossing area
• Maintains and assures specimen identification by correctly labeling cassettes and maintains workflow in concert with the pathologist.
• Cleans the workstation after completing grossing procedures. Ensures aseptic techniques and observes health safety protocols during cleanup to minimize exposure risks.
• Processes, embeds and sections tissues for slides;
• Embeds processed tissue, cuts embedded tissue for slide sections; performs routine and special stains according to department procedures in preparation for analysis by the pathologist.