Posted: 08-Oct-24
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Type: Full Time
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Internal Number: 132618
Shift: 8am – 4:30pm, Monday - Friday
This role comes with a sign-on bonus!
Emory Medical Laboratory's mission is to transform health and healing by providing high quality, cost-effective, innovative laboratory services which enhance patient health. We're seeking a certified Cytotechnologist II who will support Emory Healthcare’s mission of clinical care, education, and research by demonstrating the core values of excellence, caring, and integrity. This individual:
- Prepares and stains cytologic material for routine procedures; evaluates examination results for validity and reports results as prescribed by standard procedures.
- May prepare specimens for cytopathologic examination.
- Evaluates cytologic material for carcinoma or other diagnoses and completes all daily assigned screening.
- Reviews quality of staining and the adequacy of the specimen to support an adequate diagnosis.
- In complex cases, evaluates all information available and determines whether analysis results should be released, repeated, or referred to a pathologist.
- Assists the Pathologist and Radiologist on fine needle aspiration biopsy procedures and is competent in giving an adequacy assessment.
- Performs other related duties as required.
JOIN OUR TEAM TODAY! Emory Healthcare (EHC), part of Emory University (EUV), is the most comprehensive academic health system in Georgia and the first and only in Georgia with a Magnet® designated ambulatory practice. We are made up of 11 hospitals-4 Magnet® designated, the Emory Clinic, and more than 425 provider locations. The Emory Healthcare Network, established in 2011, is the largest clinically integrated network in Georgia, with more than 3,450 physicians concentrating in 70 different subspecialties.
- Bachelors degree in medical technology, clinical lab science or a chemical, physical or biological science.
- Other bachelors degree will be accepted if graduated from an accredited school of cytotechnology or if science and math coursework meet requirement of certifying agency.
Education Exception: Bachelors degree may be waived for a Cytotechnologist who was ASCP certified in the years prior to the bachelors degree requirement by ASCP and a HEW/HHS technologist certified by Health and Human Services. - At least two years of experience. Experience in Gynecological, Non-gynecological and FNA cytology preferred.
- Certification as CT (ASCP) by the American Society for Clinical Pathology which meets Georgia's Department of Human Resources requirements.