Hospital Laboratory Technician 2, Surgical Pathology Reporting

As a Hospital Laboratory Technician 2, you will play a crucial role in supporting the operations of our Surgical Pathology Reporting offices. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Manage microscopic slide inventories, including the preparation/packaging of biohazardous waste for pickup by contracted waste management vendors.

• Receive, sort, and file microscopic slides.

• Pull slides for Tumor Board, conferences, education, pathologist review and other departmental needs.

• Visit the offsite warehouse to pull/file materials and package biohazardous waste for waste management transport.

• Provide exceptional service to faculty, patients, couriers, and vendors.

• Perform daily departmental runs to pickup and deliver slides.

• Process tissue requests for clinical trial submissions, continuation of care, and ancillary testing.

• Release surgical pathology specimens to patients and manufacturers.

• Accessioning pathology cases for add-on immunohistochemistry, special stains, and electron microscopy.

• Coordinate with patients, OR Scheduling and clinical teams to schedule bone marrow aspirations.

• Perform general office tasks (answer phones, respond to emails, scan documents into the EMR, send/receive faxes).

• Digitally scan slides for telepathology applications.

• Provide coverage at the Santa Monica and West Valley Surgical Pathology Reporting Offices, as needed.

Salary Range: $36.49/hour - $48.13/hour