Cyto Technologist ASCP: Full Time, First Shift

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Paducah (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition Assistance

Paid Time Off

Maternity and Paternity Leave

Bereavement Leave (pets)

Employee Assistance Program

Retirement plans with company match

Job summary

Baptist Health Paducah is seeking a Cyto Technologist ASCP for full-time, first shift, in the laboratory. The role requires expert knowledge in preparing, staining, and evaluating gynecological and non-gynecological samples, including FNAs, with high accuracy and confidentiality.

You will work with physicians and patients, perform routine cytology screening, manage specimen IDs, and maintain equipment and supplies per Baptist Health policies. Equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cytology or related field (as required).
• Completion of Cytology Program Certification by the ASCP is required.

Responsibilities

• Assist with processing of specimens collected in CT scan as required.
• Performs routine microscopic evaluation of cytologic smears and cell blocks.
• Completely and correctly screens and interprets cytologic specimens.
• Numbers specimens received into the computer system with proper identification as to the patient and specimen type.

Skills

Cytology

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree

ASCP Cytology Certification

Job description

Summary Job Description

Cyto Technologist ASCP Full Time, First Shift Must have extensive knowledge in preparing, staining, and evaluating gynecological and non-gynecological material including fine needle aspirations. Demonstrates competency in assessing all material with a high level of accuracy. Shows good judgment with attention to details as well as respect patient confidentiality. Works professionally and courteously with physicians, patients, guests, and other employees. Performance of duties is in accordance with policies and guidelines established with Baptist Health Paducah Laboratory. Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Job Duties

• Assists with processing of specimens collected in CT scan as required.
• Performs routine microscopic evaluation of cytologic smears and cell blocks.
• Completely and correctly screens and interprets cytologic specimens.
• Numbers specimens received into computer system with proper identification as to the patient and specimen type.
• Maintains maintenance schedule for equipment and monitors supplies of the department.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Completion of Cytology Program Certification by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP) is required

Benefits

• Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off available for use upon hire
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement plans with company match

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health's eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health's employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health's physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

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