Pathologist Assistant

2 weeks ago

Palo Alto, California, United States Stanford Health Care Full time

If you're ready to be part of our legacy of hope and innovation, we encourage you to take the first step and explore our current job openings. Your best is waiting to be discovered.

Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview

The Pathologist Assistant (PA) dissects tissue specimens and provides dictated placement in plastic cassettes for embedding, staining, and microscopic analysis. This position directs coding of specimens for the accessioning staff. Processes breast and other tissue specimens according to established protocols, and instructs residents, fellows, medical students, and faculty in Gross Room protocols and processes as well as specimen photography. This position is responsible for responding on a STAT basis to the frozen section room adjacent to the SHC operating rooms, and performs intraoperative frozen sections. The PA is also responsible for assembling catalogues and preserving specimens for the gross specimen teaching library, and the Department of Pathology Tissue Bank. This position prepares and performs specimen radiography of breast, bone, and soft tissue specimens. The PA is also responsible for providing weekend and off-site location coverage on a rotational basis.

Locations

Stanford Health Care

What you will do

  • 1) Dictates gross descriptions of tissue specimens and hardware
  • 2) Dissects wet tissue specimens
  • 3) Instruct residents, fellows, and medical students in tissue dissection techniques
  • 4) Perform frozen section procedures
  • 5) Performs specimen radiographs for selective specimens
  • 6) Preserve tissues for ancillary studies and tissue bank
  • 7) Preserve tissues for departmental tissue library
  • 8) Select representative sections for embedding, staining and microscopic evaluation
  • 9) Weighs, measures, and selectively photographs tissue specimens
  • 10) Peforms fine needle aspiration (FNA) adequacies
  • Autopsy specific tasks:
  • 11) Autopsy dissections and measurements
  • 12) Assists in collection of specimens for laboratory and microscopic analysis
  • 13) Instructs residents, fellows, medical students, and faculty in autopsy protocols and processes as well as specimen photography and radiology
  • 14) Responsible for preparing specimens for the teaching collection and various research tissue protocols
  • 15) Assists in maintenance and supply of the autopsy room
  • 16) Participates in administrative roles such as health and safety certification for the autopsy service

Education Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree Bachelor's degree in a work-related discipline/field from an accredited college or university
  • Master's degree from an accredited Pathologists' Assistant program

Experience Qualifications

  • One (1) year of progressively responsible and directly related work experience preferred

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Ability operate and maintain medical equipment and apparatuses
  • Ability to analyze data, draw conclusions and interpret results
  • Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
  • Ability to follow written and oral instructions
  • Ability to learn new procedures and adapt to technological changes in the laboratory
  • Ability to organize, prioritize, multi-task, and adapt to changing priorities
  • Ability to perform tasks according to prescribed procedures
  • Ability to work effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization
  • Knowledge and technical proficiency in specialty areas assigned within the laboratory
  • Knowledge of infection prevention policies and procedures
  • Knowledge of local, state and federal regulatory requirements related to areas of functional responsibility
  • Knowledge of mathematics general science and laboratory techniques

Licenses and Certifications

  • PA (ASCP) – Pathologist Assistant Certification from the American Society for Clinical Pathology .
  • • Unlicensed/new graduates must take and pass the ASCP Certification Exam prior to their start date. A letter on official letterhead must be provided by the Program Director stating that the PA has passed the exam.o The official documentation of certification from the ASCP must be submitted to the departmental supervisor within 90 days. .

Physical Demands and Work Conditions

Blood Borne Pathogens

  • Category I - Tasks that involve exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissues

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford's patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family's perspective:

  • Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
  • Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
  • Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $ $78.37 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.

At Stanford Health Care, we seek to provide patients with the very best in diagnosis and treatment, with outstanding quality, compassion and coordination. With an unmatched track record of scientific discovery, technological innovation and translational medicine, Stanford Medicine physicians are pioneering leading edge therapies today that will change the way health care is delivered tomorrow.

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