Certified Pathologists Assistant - Los Angeles, United States - Kaiser Permanente
Description
Job Summary:
Under the Supervision and Control of a Physician Pathologists, assists in the performance of anatomic pathology practice by: Preparation and examination of surgical pathology specimens.
Performance of other technical, supervisory and/or functional direction duties within the scope of practice as directed by the pathologists of Chief Pathologist.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Perform postmortem examinations and descriptions.
- Process surgical Pathology specimens including dissection, description and embedding for Pathologists diagnosis.
- Preparation of fine needle aspiration specimens.
- Preparation of frozen sections for pathologists interpretation.
- Quality control and management of equipment and supplies in the surgical Pathology laboratory and autopsy suite.
- Quality improvement activities and projects for the Pathology Department.
- Uphold standards of practice, policies and procedures as contained in the Departments Policy and Procedure Manuals in the surgical pathology and Autopsy service.
- Continued education and skills assessment concurrent with established and new practices and techniques as applicable in surgical and autopsy pathology.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
- N/A
- Bachelors degree Graduate from a National Accrediting agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS) accredited pathologists assistant training program and/or a current Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP).
- Pathologist's Assistant Certificate from American Society for Clinical Pathologists
Additional Requirements:
- Fellowship and/or National Certification of Pathologists Assistants must be maintained as long as one works at this position.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous experience in Pathology Department preferred.
- Masters Degree
PrimaryLocation :
California,Los Angeles,West Los Angeles Medical Center
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift :
Day
Workdays :
Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri,
WorkingHoursStart : 07:30 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 04:00 PM
Job Schedule :
Full-time
Job Type :
Standard
Employee Status :
Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation :
NUE-SCAL-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level :
Individual Contributor
Job Category :
Laboratory
Department :
West LA Medical Center - Pathology/Lab-Histology - 0806
Travel :
Yes, 10 % of the Time
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