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Cytology Technologist, Per Diem

Woburn, Massachusetts

Organization Facility: Winchester Hospital Category: Laboratory Job ID: JR72001 Date posted: 02/28/2025
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Job Type: Per Diem

Time Type: Part time

Work Shift: Day (United States of America)

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Contributes to the Hospital’s mission by screening pap and non-GYN tests as requested in physician orders. This professional position impacts patient care by performing and triaging accurate tests as prescribed by the physician in a timely manner so clinicians receive accurate result enabling them to provide the best possible care.

Job Description:

QUALIFICATIONS

Education Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree in a science field required, or grandfathered qualifications

  • Completion of a CAAHEP accredited cytotechnology program.

Experience Preferred:

  • ThinPrep Pap Test training, HOLOGIC Imager training

Other Skills/Knowledge Required:

  • For safety and quality reasons, must be able to read, write and communicate effectively in English with patients, visitors and fellow members of the hospital team. 

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS, CERTIFICATIONS:

  • Required:Registered Cytotechnologist with ASCP certification

JOB FUNCTIONS

As part of the Laboratory team, this position requires a Cytotechnologist to be able to do the following:

  • Depending on lab staffing, prepares non-GYN and GYN specimens for evaluation by following established protocols.  Ensures specimen integrity throughout the process.  Attend fine needle aspiration (FNA) procedures when necessary.

  • Utilizing a microscope, screens ThinPrep slides manually and by using automated instrumentation, which requires fine motor coordination and manual dexterity.  Identifies cellular changes caused by the disease process.  Provide diagnosis and triages slides for further review as necessary.

  • Screens non-GYN slides to provide a primary diagnosis and triage slides and findings to pathologist for final diagnosis and sign out.  

  • Troubleshoot test anomalies and system problems in a logical manner to ensure accurate tests.

  • Performs quality control checks and equipment maintenance, adhering to high quality standards.

  • Responds to supply and equipment issues timely to ensure optimum operations and equipment quality and long-term equipment maintenance and life.

  • Maintains a clean and safe work environment presenting a professional impression of facilities and fostering our culture of safety. 

  • Reviews supplies inventory, communicates supply needs and rotates supplies when new stocking is received.

  • Reviews and sign-outs quality control and patient results into the electronic medical records system in a timely manner so clinicians and patients get their results as quickly a possible.  Expedites results to pathologists for stat and rush cases.

  • Takes status and result requests and other questions from patients and clinicians in a timely and professional manner. 

  • Maintain documentation, reports and quality checks to ensure the laboratory is in compliance with regulatory agencies, accreditation and Hospital policies and procedures.

  • Assess the accuracy of the typed information by comparing the information on requisition with the information on the cytology worksheet

  • Maintains reports to verify optimal operational performance.

  • In the absence of the Supervisor, may be the technologist in charge of the shift, resolving operational and clinical issues in a timely manner.  Addresses immediate performance concerns and communicates issues to the Supervisor as appropriate. 

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

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