Cytotechnician II

Anatomic Pathology
Full Time
Day Shift
8:30-5:00

Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care.

Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the region's third largest employer.

Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state’s first Heart

CARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer’s care center. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.

Coordination of the preparation of cytology specimens for review by the cytotechnologists and pathologists. General supervision and maintenance of the cytopreparatory area.

Minimum Education: Associate's Degree
Minimum Years of

Experience:

6 Months of general office experience; 6 Months of on‑the‑job training in cytopreparatory techniques.
Substitutable

Education & Experience:

High School Diploma with 3 Years of Experience
Required Certifications/Licensure: None
Required Training: Computer experience required;
Background in medical terminology.

• Performs at a high role‑model standard, all the duties performed by a cytology assistant with the working knowledge and facility of all steps of routine and special specimen processing and slide preparation.
• Medical technologist‑type operation, calibration and maintenance of the autocyte prep system, centrifuges, and other cytology instruments. Troubleshooting all equipment problems.
• Maintaining an up‑to‑date and efficient filing system for reports, logs, batchlists, slides, etc.
• Mailing/faxing or and/or distributing reports.
• Instruction of cytopreparatory personnel in all cytopreparatory procedures, operation of equipment and LIS functions.
• General maintenance and disinfection of work area.
• Preparation of all types of cytology specimens for microscopic review including physician assistant‑type assistance with the collection and rapid processing of FNA specimens including staining, cover slipping, labeling, and presentation of slides and paperwork to the cytotechnologists and pathologists.
• Documentation of stainline maintenance and equipment charts.
• General maintenance, adjustments and temperature/gauge reading of instruments/equipment and documentation as required.
• Preparation of reagent solutions as needed, e.g. 95% alcohol, AGAR preparation.
• Printing previous history reports and checking H.I.S. computer for pertinent clinical history. Matching reports to requisitions.
• Inventory of supplies; ordering of supplies; replenishing stock. Maintain and update inventory supply system. Place computer orders.
• Assist with the calculation and preparation of monthly statistics using the computer to make spreadsheets and charts.
• Responsibility for delegation of workload among available personnel on a day‑to‑day basis. Scheduling of cytology assistants to provide optimum coverage and efficiency.
• Coordinating the preparation and distribution of all cytology specimens. Ability to clearly communicate with cytology supervisor and pathologists and assist in problem resolution as directed, to include ability to clearly communicate back to the cytotechnologists and cytopreparatory assistants.
• Storage and disposal of cytology specimens.
• Skillfully and diplomatically manages the multiple daily interactions between the physicians’ offices, nursing staff and the cytopreparations staff.
• Scheduling CT and ultrasound‑guided FNA’s and all pathologist‑performed FNA’s. Nurse‑type assisting, instructing and preparing patients on whom FNA procedures will be performed.
• Retrieving slides and…