Entry Level Histotechnologist

Job Summary

The Department of Pathology is excited to recruit a full-time (1.0 FTE) entry-level Histotechnologist at the rank of Healthcare Entry Professional. The entry-level histotechnologist will process whole mount prostate, prostate mapping biopsies, and other types of specimens received in the Histology Subspeciality Laboratory.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical – 60%

• Gross description and dissection of whole prostate specimens, prostate mapping biopsy specimens.
• CMOCO only biopsy tissue samples.
• Reprocessing of FFPI tissue samples for Electron Microscopy.
• Paraffin Embedding of large format and biopsy tissue samples.
• Microtomy sectioning of tissue samples.
• Staining and cover slipping of tissue samples

Administrative – 20%

• Manual tracking of patient tissue samples.
• Maintenance of supply inventory.

Compliance and operational – 20%

• Cleaning and organization of workstations
• Disposal of biological waste.
• Changing solutions in tissue processors.
• Adherence to all operational maintenance requirements.

Work Location: Onsite – this role is expected to work onsite and is located in Aurora, CO.