Department: 60348 IL ACL Laboratories - IL Central Lab
Job Title: Histology Technician
Status: Full-time
Benefits Eligible: Yes
Hours Per Week: 40
Schedule Details/Additional Information:
Full-time 3rd shift hours Monday - Friday 10:00 p.m. - 6:30 a.m.
Pay Range: $23.65 - $37.30
Major Responsibilities:
• Ensures specimens are properly accessioned, labeled, and suitable for testing. • Cuts quality tissue sections with proper thickness as determined by tissue type and places properly on glass slides. • Embeds tissue into paraffin blocks. • Maintains a filing system for paraffin tissue blocks, slides, and wet tissue. • Processes tissue using processors to ensure full preservation and infiltration by paraffin. • Performs routine and special stains, immunohistochemistry, cover slipping, verification, and distribution of slides. • Retrieves and prints computer logs. • Manages daily workflow for recuts, special stains, immunohistochemistry, control slides, and send-outs according to established protocols. • Performs and documents quality control. • Evaluates quality control results and takes corrective action under the guidance of key operators, technical specialists, or supervisor. • Performs and documents cleaning, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of instruments and equipment. • Assists pathologists during frozen section procedures. • Ensures compliance with all accrediting agency standards. • Provides assistance to pathologists, externs, and other team members.
Minimum Education and Experience Required:
• License/Registration/Certification Required: n/a • Education Required: Advanced Training beyond High School in a science-related field. • Experience Required: No experience required.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:
• Knowledge of human anatomy • Must be detail-oriented and have good organizational and communication skills • Must know how to safely handle sharp instruments • Proficient computer skills • Must be able to problem solve
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
• Sits and stands the majority of the workday as well as walks, lifts, squats, bends, and twists throughout. • Frequently lifts up to 10 lbs. • Will occasionally be required to lift up to 50 lbs. • May be exposed to mechanical, electrical, chemical, explosive, radioactive, and infectious agents. • Will be exposed to human blood, body fluids, and tissue. • Must wear appropriate lab coat, gloves, gowns, and eye and face protection as needed. • Good manual dexterity. • Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job.
About the Job Description:
This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.
Our Commitment to You:
Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development, and so much more - so you can live fully at and away from work, including:
• Compensation: Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training. • Premium pay: Such as shift, on-call, and more based on a teammates job. • Incentive pay for select positions. • Opportunity for annual increases based on performance. • Benefits and more: Paid Time Off programs, health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability. • Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses. • Family benefits: Such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave. • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs. • Educational Assistance Program.
About Advocate Health:
Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience, and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics, and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments, and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nations largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.