What are the responsibilities and job description for the Histology Technician position at Careers Integrated Resources Inc?
Job Title: Histology Technician
Job Location: Detroit, MI
Job Duration: 2-3 Months (possibility of extension)
Shift: Monday - Friday - 8:00pm - 4:30am
Duties and Responsibilities:
Job Location: Detroit, MI
Job Duration: 2-3 Months (possibility of extension)
Shift: Monday - Friday - 8:00pm - 4:30am
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Under limited supervision performs routine techniques on surgical, autopsy, and research tissue according to standardized procedures. Operates and maintains laboratory instruments and equipment required to perform analysis.
- Cuts surgical, autopsy, research and neuropathology tissue using a rotary microtome.
- Embeds surgical, autopsy, research, and neuropathology tissue.
- Stains, coverslips and labels surgical, autopsy, research and neuropathology tissue.
- Under supervision, performs special stains according to standardized procedures.
- Maintains all equipment and instruments. May demonstrate work to help onboard others.
- Mixes and maintains all solutions including stains and special fixatives.
- Maintains and records all QC, CAP, QA instrument function and maintenance records.
- Maintains a current inventory of all reagents and supplies.
- Adheres to Standard Work for all job duties and reports deviations for correction. Participates in data collection and quality improvement efforts.
- Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.
- Completion of an Associate’s Degree with coursework in Anatomy, Biology, and/or Chemistry, Completion of a Bachelor’s Degree program in medical technology, medical laboratory sciences, clinical laboratory sciences, Chemistry, Microbiology, or Biology, A High School Diploma or G.E.D. with two years of relevant laboratory experience in a work, academic, or volunteer capacity.
- Coursework completed outside of the US must be verified as by a NACES approved
- HT(ASCP) certification preferred.
- ASCP Certification (American Society for Clinical Pathology).
- Vision Near Acuity: Ability to see clearly at 20 inches or less.
- Depth Perception: Ability to judge distance and space relationships.
- Accommodation: Ability to adjust vision to bring objects into focus.
- Color Vision: Ability to distinguish and identify different colors necessary to perform job functions.
