SPECIMEN PROCESSING TECHNICIAN
Req #: | 167573 |
Department: | PATHOLOGY |
Job Location: | UW Medical Center - Montlake |
Posting Date: | 02/03/2020 |
Closing Info: | Closes On 02/17/2020 |
Salary: | $2,787.00 to $3,868.00 monthly |
Union Position: | Yes |
Shift: | First Shift |
Notes: |
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UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty. All of which has allowed the UW to be nationally recognized as a “Great College to Work For” for four consecutive years.
The University of Washington, Department of Pathology is a broad and dynamic department that strives for a consistent level of high achievement in all of its activities. The Department offers full diagnostic services in all areas of Pathology, is a top ranked research organization as measured by research awards from the National Institutes of Health, and offers an array of specialized educational training programs.
UW Medicine Pathology brings together state-of-the-art technology and highly trained, world renowned personnel to provide comprehensive diagnostic and personalized service to physicians, community hospitals, independent laboratories, and other health care organizations. Our operations are based at the University of Washington Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, South Lake Union, Northwest Hospital and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Pathology faculty members also serve at Seattle Children's Hospital, the Veteran’s Administration Puget Sound Healthcare System, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. These collaborative efforts have generated innovative, translational studies in the basic mechanisms of disease as they apply to diagnostic pathology.
The Department of Pathology currently has an outstanding opportunity for a SPECIMAN PROCESSING TECHNICIAN.
This position supports Prospective and Customized Biospecimen Procurement and Annotation. This position has operational access to patient health information and clinical materials including pathology specimens and archival blocks and slides, and for these activities must adhere to the covered entity HIPAA Privacy and CLIA rules and has 'dotted line' reporting to the CLIA certificate holders and applicable clinical laboratory management staff.
Typical Duties Include:
Technicians are responsible for the following:
Reviewing clinic and OR schedules for NWBT cases. Obtaining a NWBT general protocol consent (including research only biospecimens) pre-operatively or in SCCA clinics. Coordinating the collection and processing of biospecimens and associated data for basic research and clinical trials between various care teams. All remnant clinical specimens will be obtained within an approved Surgical Pathology or Lab Medicine and Pathology clinical stream. Technicians are responsible for knowing these standard procedures and policies as well as all research requirements and protocols. Collection and processing activities cover multiple areas and technicians will rotate between these areas as appropriate:
Technicians are responsible for communicating any potential procurement activities after hours to the designated moonlighting staff. Technicians will be responsible for the quality of the specimen, ensuring that biospecimens are dissected appropriately, processed as quickly as possible, maintained at the appropriate temperature. Technicians will ensure a scout slide is created for solid tissue specimens and is reviewed by the pathologist to determine percent necrosis and percent neoplasia, will review the final path report to make sure that there aren’t inconsistencies or unexpected results from the biospecimen collected for research and that there is a notation in the pathology report that discloses that tissue was collected for research from that case. Technicians must ensure that all releases of biospecimens and information are appropriate and consistent with the patient consent, research protocol and IRB approvals. All distribution is logged and signatures are obtained from research staff on distribution. Technicians are responsible for biospecimen short-term storage and maintenance of freezer space Technicians, with proper certification and approvals, including study specific IRB approvals, may perform other procedures with direct patient access such as phlebotomy and patient questionnaires. Technicians may further annotate biospecimens per approved protocols, query clinical databases and records and pull archived pathology materials for review. Technicians may assist with other service lines, such requests for research use of archival specimens. Technicians may train other staff on procedures, including students. Other duties may be assigned.
Minimum Requirements:
Two years of college-level science in an applicable field OR High School graduation or GED Certification AND one year of clinical laboratory experience in a Clinical or Public Health Laboratory OR equivalent education/experience
Desired Requirements:
Preferred Qualifications:
Have knowledge of HIPAA and CAP/CLIA requirements for the research use of archival clinical samples, experience obtaining informed consent, and familiarity with Institution Review Board (IRB) requirements.
Application Process:
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