Sr Histotechnologist - Digital Scanning Quality Assurance -

General Summary

Oversees laboratory operations in multiple technical disciplines on a regular basis with minimal supervision.

Principle Duties And Responsibilities

• Oversees and performs routine and complex histological procedures on human tissue, body fluids, and cultured cells, using manual or automated techniques and information systems.
• Applies knowledge, training, and independent clinical judgment to take action and/or develop solutions.
• Collaborates with leadership staff to improve processes and resolve problems.
• Responsible for establishing and ensuring standard work with consistent quality and corrective and preventive action as needed.
• Evaluates instrument performance and quality control results to ensure accuracy and reliability prior to release.
• Correlates results with other lab data and/or disease states.
• Identifies technical, instrument, pharmacologic and/or physiologic causes of unexpected test results.
• Develops and establishes standard operating procedures for routine and advanced histology applications, such as special stain techniques, muscle histochemistry, direct immunofluorescence, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and electron microscopy.
• Performs calibration, preventive maintenance, and troubleshooting of technical equipment in multiple workstations.
• Following successful completion of competency testing, may perform processing, testing, and reporting without direct supervision.
• Affords assistance in the correction of technical problems and serves as a technical resource redirecting the workflow or assignments as necessary to ensure proper coverage and service standards.
• May prepare staffing schedules.