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**City/State:** Belleville, Illinois

**Categories:** Laboratory

**Job Status:** Full-Time

**Req ID** : 94559

**Pay Range:** $21.58 – $35.84 / hour (Salary or hourly rate is based on job qualifications and relevant work experience)

Additional Information About the Role

_Are you looking for a career as a_ **_Histotechnician II_** _?_ _Look no further than BJC!As a_ **_Histotechnician II_** _, you play a crucial role in the delivery of high-quality patient care. Join our_ **_Laboratory-Surgical Pathology_** _team to be an integral part of delivering precise and reliable laboratory results that impact patient outcomes positively._

+ Day Shift: 0500-1330, 0600-1430, 0700-1530

+ Call - Limited on Saturday only

+ NO WEEKENDS or HOLIDAYS

+ Associates as a Histotechnician PREFERRED

+ ASCP certified. At least one year of histology experience. PREFERRED

+ Duties - Cutting and embedding tissue, IHC and Special Stains, Instrument maintenance, assist on Bone Marrows, FNA and surgical procedures for Telepathology.

***10,000 Sign on Bonus***

Overview

**Memorial Hospital Belleville** is an acute care hospital offering medical and surgical services plus critical and emergency care including Children’s at Memorial for pediatric emergency care. It provides patients a full complement of diagnostic and treatment services as well as heart and vascular care. Memorial, offering medical and surgical services plus critical care, is an accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI by the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care and is designated as an Acute Stroke Ready Hospital by the Illinois Department of Public Health. In addition, Memorial Belleville recently was accredited by the American College of Radiology as a designated Lung Cancer Screening Center. Since 2008, it has been designated as a Magnet®-recognized organization for nursing excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

**Memorial Hospital Shiloh** , a 94-bed, all-private suite hospital was recognized with Magnet status in 2018 and provides emergency care, labor & delivery, nursery, medical and surgical services plus critical care.

The Laboratory Department provides a wide variety of assays and procedures to obtain data used in the diagnosis and treatment of most disease states to our inpatient and out patients. Services include phlebotomy, hematology, chemistry, microbiology, blood bank, point-of-care and pathology.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

Responsible for providing a variety of routine and/or complex tests and procedures on tissue and related surgical specimens submitted for histological examination.

Responsibilities

+ Understands test principles, theory, maintenance, troubleshooting, and operation of all instrumentation in assigned areas.

+ Tasks to include, but not limited to, microtomy, embedding, staining, reagent preparation. Performs and documents quality controls for all equipment and troubleshoots malfunctioning instrumentation as necessary. Performs special stains and immunohisotchemistry, (manual or automated), after reagent preparation.

+ Ability to utilize critical thinking skills to perform above tasks and responsibilities.

+ Trained to complete tissue gross examination as needed.

+ Must meet the High Complexity qualifications as written in CLIA 42CFR493.

Minimum Requirements

Education

+ High School Diploma or GED

Experience

+ <2 years

Supervisor Experience

+ No Experience

Licenses & Certifications

+ HT-ASCP or equiv

Preferred Requirements

Education

+ Associate's Degree - Physical/Life Science/related

Benefits and Legal Statement

BJC Total Rewards

At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date

+ Disability insurance* paid for by BJC

+ Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution

+ 401(k) plan with BJC match

+ Tuition Assistance available on first day

+ BJC Institute for Learning and Development

+ Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

+ Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time

+ Adoption assistance

To learn more, go to our Benefits Summary (https://www.bjctotalrewards.org/Benefits)

*Not all benefits apply to all jobs

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer