Location
New Castle, PA | United States
Job description
UPMC Jameson is hiring a full-time Histology Lead to join our team of excellent Laboratory Services professionals!
If you are looking to join a dynamic team where you can find a sense of reward and accomplishment each and every day, then the laboratory team at UPMC Jameson may be the right fit for you. The Histology Lead will mainly work a daylight shift with no on-call, weekends or holidays required. No travel would be required for this position.
Purpose:
Process and prepare specialized tissue samples in a clinical laboratory. Ability to process all Center of Excellence specialized tissues and specimens and prepare all specialized stains and techniques.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee workflow and assign staff to control the daily throughput.
- Assist supervisor in developing work schedules and define rotational workflow duties of laboratory staff.
- Identify capital equipment needs and present workflow justification to the supervisor.
- Maintain and update procedure manuals. Correlate work practices to written procedures and present any necessary changes to the supervisor.
- Assure staff compliance with required instrument maintenance protocols to maximize instrument operation and assure consistent specimen quality outcomes.
- Participate in QA activities; identify issues that require focused QI team initiative.
- Define issues and problems in operations, identify solutions, and justify recommended solution.
- Work with supervisor to assess staff competency based on lab specific checklists.
- Provide input to the performance evaluations of other laboratory personnel.
- Demonstrates proper quality control techniques during review of routine and special stains.
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Salary
$24.35 - $39.25 per hour
