Northwell Health

Pathologists' Assistant

Northwell Health$70K — $95K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent education/experience required
  • Current License to practice as a Pathology Assistant required
  • 0-1 years of technical experience preferred
  • Specialized certifications as needed
  • Experience in pathology preferred, focusing on surgical and autopsy procedures.

Responsibilities

  • Provide instruction and supervision to residents and students in pathology practices
  • Emphasize best practices in specimen grossing and tissue procurement
  • Engage residents and students in case preparation and teaching sessions
  • Assist in autopsy procedures, ensuring proper legal authorization
  • Conduct frozen section examinations and process specimens timely
  • Serve as a liaison between laboratory staff and physicians
  • Monitor quality assurance and safety compliance in pathology operations.

Benefits

  • Access to continuing education and training opportunities
  • Collaboration with leading medical professionals in pathology
  • Opportunity to mentor and develop future pathologists and assistants
  • Contributions to quality improvement initiatives in pathology
  • Work in a supportive educational environment with hands-on experience.
Full Job Description
Provides advanced technical support in both surgical and autopsy pathology. This includes the preparation and examination of tissue specimens, performance of specialized procedures, and active participation in the education and development of pathology residents, fellows, and pathologists' assistant students. Collaborates closely with pathologists and other medical professionals to ensure accurate and timely diagnostic information.

Job Responsibility

Provides instruction, supervision, and mentorship to residents, fellows, and pathologists' assistant students across all areas of practice, including surgical pathology, autopsy, biobanking, frozen section, intraoperative consultations, and laboratory operations. Emphasize best practices in specimen grossing, dissection, and tissue procurement for ancillary studies, while modeling accuracy, efficiency, and adherence to institutional and regulatory standards. Actively engage residents and students in case preparation, conferences, teaching sessions, and quality improvement initiatives to foster continuous learning, critical thinking, and professional development. Assists in the performance of an autopsy examination by ascertaining proper legal authorization; obtains and reviews the patient's chart and other clinical data and studies; initiates procedures when resolving problems related to proper clearance and consent for autopsy; confers with the pathologists to identify special techniques or procedures that are required (immunopathology, electron microscopy).Participates in post-mortem prosection, evisceration and subsequent dissection; obtains specimens for biological and toxicologic analysis; performs specialized procedures including frozen sections, histological procedures and special procedures; prepares tissue for frozen sections utilizing histologic procedures. Participates in conduct of frozen section examinations; selects and preserves tissue for special studies to include immunopathology, electron microscopy, special stains and flow cytometry; prepares and processes frozen section tissue in a timely manner consistent with standards. Prepares surgical pathology specimens; ensures appropriate specimen accessioning, pertinent clinical information and studies; dissects surgical specimens while describing the gross anatomic features and ensuring proper submission for histologic processing. Obtains and submits specimens for additional ancillary procedures (immunostaining, flow cytometry); dissects and processes frozen section specimens for evaluation by an Attending Pathologist; assists Pathologists with eviscerations and obtaining appropriate sections for microscopic examination. Photographs all pertinent gross specimens and microscopic slides; serves as liaison between the laboratory and staff physicians, lab sections and department heads; collaborates with hospital physicians, lab sections and department heads on pertinent matters in order to maintain quality service. Assists in the conduct of quality assurance within Pathology; monitors safety compliance; monitors quality/assurance activities and records. Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification
  • Bachelor's Degree required or equivalent combination of education and related experience..
  • Current License to practice as a Pathology Assistant required, plus specialized certifications as needed.0-1 years of technical experience, required.


*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).

About Northwell Health

Northwell Health is a non-profit healthcare organization that provides clinical care, research, and medical education in New York. It is the largest healthcare provider and private employer in the state of New York, with over 72000 employees. Northwell Health has 23 hospitals and more than 700 outpatient facilities, as well as a medical school and a research institute. The organization was founded in 1997 as North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System and changed its name to Northwell Health in 2015.
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1997

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