Cytotechnologist

Job Description

Consistent with the PROMISE principles and inherent in a hospital environment, employees must be flexible in meeting patients’ and the Hospital’s needs. While the list below describes the primary functions of this job, all employees at Winchester Hospital need to recognize that an essential element of their job is the ability to respond to unanticipated and/or changing situations.

Job Functions

• Prepares non-GYN and GYN specimens for evaluation by following established protocols.
• Ensures specimen integrity throughout the process.
• Attends fine needle aspiration (FNA) procedures when necessary.
• Utilizes a microscope to screen ThinPrep slides manually and by using automated instrumentation, requiring fine motor coordination and manual dexterity.
• Identifies cellular changes caused by the disease process.
• Provides diagnosis and triages slides for further review as necessary.
• Screens non-GYN slides to provide a primary diagnosis and triage slides and findings to pathologist for final diagnosis and sign out.
• Troubleshoots test anomalies and system problems in a logical manner to ensure accurate tests.
• Performs quality control checks and equipment maintenance, adhering to high quality standards.
• Responds to supply and equipment issues timely to ensure optimum operations and equipment quality and long-term equipment maintenance and life.
• Maintains a clean and safe work environment presenting a professional impression of facilities and fostering our culture of safety.
• Reviews supplies inventory, communicates supply needs and rotates supplies when new stocking is received.
• Reviews and sign-outs quality control and patient results into the electronic medical records system in a timely manner so clinicians and patients get their results as quickly as possible.
• Expedites results to pathologists for stat and rush cases.
• Takes status and result requests and other questions from patients and clinicians in a timely and professional manner.
• Maintain documentation, reports and quality checks to ensure the laboratory is in compliance with regulatory agencies, accreditation and Hospital policies and procedures.
• Affirmatively reviews the accuracy of the typed information by comparing the information on requisition with the information on the cytology worksheet.
• Maintains reports to verify optimal operational performance.
• In the absence of the Supervisor, may be the technologist in charge of the shift, resolving operational and clinical issues in a timely manner.
• Addresses immediate performance concerns and communicates issues to the Supervisor as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Education: Required Bachelor’s degree in a science field required, or grandfathered qualifications. Completion of a CAAHEP accredited cytotechnology program.
• Experience: Preferred: ThinPrep Pap Test training, HOLOGIC Imager training.

Licenses, Registrations, Certifications

• Registered Cytotechnologist with ASCP certification.

Physical And Mental Requirements/Conditions

• The employee needs to have the physical and mental abilities to perform the duties of the position listed above using the PROMISE behaviors.
• It is anticipated that the employee will have contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials while performing their job duties.

Pay Range

$45.00 - $60.56