Pathologists' Assistant Supervisor, Anatomic Surgical Pathology, BC Children's and Women's Hospital and Health Centre

4 weeks ago

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada PHSA Full time

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Pathologists' Assistant Supervisor to join our team at BC Children's and Women's Hospital and Health Centre. The successful candidate will be responsible for supervising staff, coordinating day-to-day work activities, and prioritizing tasks. They will also be responsible for implementing orientation and training programs for new staff and students.

Key Responsibilities

  • Supervise staff by performing duties such as coordinating the day-to-day work activities and prioritization of activities, organizes and implements orientation and training programs for new staff and students.
  • Supervise technical grossing activities within the Gross Room to bench Prosectionists and grossing technologists and provides oversight and assistance to grossing staff for:
    • Grossing and dictation of surgical, and biopsy tissue specimens.
    • Preparing tissues for microscopic examination for intraoperative consultation.
    • Responsible to create, evaluate and implement new procedures/processes, equipment and instrumentation, dissection techniques and to ensure staff is instructed in their use.
    • Maintaining extensive knowledge in dissection and dictation techniques/procedures and laboratory operation in order to evaluate, recommend and/or implement change.
    • Assuring appropriate specimen accessioning and preparation.
    • Gathering and organize pertinent clinical information and history including x-rays, scans, reports, operative records, photographs, laboratory testing results.
    • Data entry into Laboratory Information System and generation of reports/labels including accession labels, worksheets, reports, logs.
    • Performing technical gross dissection of all specimen types and complexities (L4E Levels I to VI).
    • Preparing specimens for special procedures and referred out testing such as lymphoma protocol, cytogenetic studies, immunofluorescence and flow cytometry as required.
    • Performing specimen photography, mapping sections and generating diagrams when appropriate.
    • Maintenance of Gross Room protocols/procedures, reports and data.
    • Assuring proper maintenance of equipment and adequate volume of supplies.
    • Maintaining a clean and disinfected technical work area and related instrumentation according to established guidelines.
    • Managing proper storage and disposal of biological specimens.
    • Ensuring resolution of technical problems referred by staff.
    • Meet with sales and technical representatives as requested.
    • Ensuring Gross Room compliance with requirements for accurate and thoroughly documented quality control, quality assurance, instrument maintenance and service records, investigating and following up on quality measures/monitors.
    • Supervise the technical functions within the Morgue including specimen handling, dissections, staff and resident training and evaluation as well as quality control/improvement programs and provides oversight and assistance to morgue staff for:
      • Verifying proper legal authorization for autopsy.
      • Assuring proper transport, completeness of documentation and identification of decedents entering and leaving the morgue.
      • Preparing the morgue suite and required tools, instrumentation and sample containers for post mortem examination.
      • Performing adult and pediatric post-mortem examinations including: external examinations, in-situ organ inspection, evisceration, dissection and dictation as required.
      • Obtaining biological specimens such as blood tissue and toxicological fluids/materials.
      • Performing special autopsy techniques such as spinal cord removal as required.
      • Assisting the pathologist and/or residents throughout the autopsy.
      • Proper cleaning and disinfection of the morgue and related instrumentation and tools after a post-mortem examination according to established guidelines.
      • Performing specimen photography.
      • Liaising with Diagnostic Imaging to coordinate post-mortem imaging.
      • Assuring proper maintenance of equipment and an adequate volume of supplies.
      • Liaising with provincial and out of province coroners offices.
      • Develop operational guidelines, policies and procedures to ensure that the standards for quality are maintained. Provide leadership to technical and clerical staff on practice and operational issues through problem resolution.
      • Participating in interviewing and selection of new staff. Participating in the annual performance appraisal process. Providing support, coaching and performance feedback to employees. Investigating employee performance matters where corrective action or discipline is required. Issue discipline.
      • Responsible for the training of all new medical students, residents and students from the Pathologists' Assistant program.
      • Conducting independent research work under the supervision of a Pathologist and presenting the results/findings at scientific conferences, seminars, in laboratory meetings or in related settings.
      • Collaborating with relevant departments to assess the impact of research projects and establishing internal process for handling research activity.

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