Grossing Technologist

INOVA Fairfax Medical Campus is looking for a dedicated Grossing technologist to join the team! This position is a Full time Evening shift. Monday-Friday.

Inova is consistently ranked as national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

Featured Benefits:

• Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
• Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day.
• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
• Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave, flexible work schedules, and remote and hybrid career opportunities.

Grossing Technologist Job Responsibilities

* Performs all technical aspects of grossing, dissection and dictating of surgical specimens using a variety of laboratory materials, chemicals and equipment, according to hospital policies and procedures; This may include specimen photography, specimen radiography and automated cassette printing system.

* Receives specimens from couriers, reads manifests to verify appropriate count, maintains specimen integrity and patient identification; Travels to O.R. or certain clinics if deemed necessary to pick up specimens.

* Ensures specimen integrity upon arrival and throughout the entire anatomic pathology workflow process

* Maintains knowledge of the hospital Laboratory Information System (LIS), ensuring all specimens are received accurately, knowledge of printing and adding cassettes, and preparing specimens for transportation to other laboratories.

* Answers telephone and identifies and troubleshoots registration, specimen and labeling problems; Elevates more serious issues to the gross room leadership.

* Disposes biohazardous waste materials, maintains chemical waste storage areas in accordance with all hospital, local, state, and federal guidelines.

* Maintains surgical and autopsy specimen storage area in a clean organized fashion daily.

* Assists pathologists, pathologists’ assistants and histology assistant staff as requested.

* Maintains grossing room for cleanliness, daily maintenance and inventory.

* Maintains frozen section for cleanliness, daily maintenance, inventory and assists in frozen sections.

* May perform additional duties as assigned.

Minimum Education:

* Associate degree in a laboratory science or medical laboratory science

As a recipient of federal financial assistance, Inova Health System (“Inova”) does not exclude, deny benefits to, or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or age in admission to, participation in, or receipt of the services or benefits under any of its programs or activities, whether carried out by Inova directly or through a contractor or any other entity with which Inova arranges to carry out its programs and activities.
This policy is in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, and regulations of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued pursuant to these statutes at 45 C.F.R. Parts 80, 84, 91 and 92, respectively.