Generic Job Description
Clinical Technologist I
Grade C
Representative Duties:
- Performs laboratory
tests and procedures in such areas as histology, medical technology, cytology,
and cytogenetics. Records results.
- Interprets results of tests and procedures. Makes preliminary
analyses of results. Sets up, operates and maintains laboratory equipment.
- Instructs support staff on laboratory techniques.
- Prepares specimens, tissue, bodily fluid samples, and other matter for analysis and diagnosis using non-routine laboratory techniques.
- Stains and mounts slides; prepares solutions and media; and cultures tissues.
- Orders and maintains inventory of supplies.
- Performs additional functions incidental to laboratory activities.
Family: Clinical
Job Code: 530 Date: 2/89
The job duties listed
above are representative and characteristic of the duties required and
the level of the work performed in the job title. The duties will vary
from incumbent to incumbent in the job title.
Yale
University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 530 Clinical Technologist I Grade C
Required Knowledge:
Specialized college-level coursework; detailed but narrow knowledge in
one or several work-related areas; substantial knowledge of broader field
of learning.
Limited knowledge of University organizational policies and procedures
generally; detailed knowledge of a narrow area of University rules and
procedures.
Required Skills:
Extracts and compiles a range of data from written sources, from individuals
by asking questions, or from one or several given data bases; limited
interpretation of data.
Routine use of a major library catalog or reference database.
Files already labeled material using a straightforward alphabetical or
chronological system.
Understands more complicated written instructions, memoranda, policy statements,
etc.
Writes short informal notes, fills out simple forms.
Regular, skilled use of more complex machines, including word processors
or personal computers.
Performs one or several moderately complex laboratory or scientific procedures
that are not reversible and are not expensive to duplicate, records results
as necessary.
Office and Administrative
Skills:
Keyboards forms, labels, and other simple material.
Enters and retrieves data from given sources on a personal computer.
Refers callers and visitors to the appropriate individual.
Experience, Education
and Formal Training:
Four years of related work experience, two of them in the same job family
at the next lower level, and a high school level education; or two years
of related work experience and an Associate degree; or an equivalent combination
of experience and education.
Complexity and Organization:
Wide variety of complicated job tasks requiring coordinating numerous
processes or methods.
Interpersonal Relations:
Some involvement outside immediate work unit.
Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on general
matters.
Understands and evaluates what is being said and responds with complex
answers that may take time to give.
Supervisory Guidelines:
Work is subject to general review on an occasional basis.
Supervisor and incumbent plan, assign, and schedule work jointly.
Instruction provided in all new situations, methods, and procedures
Independent Judgment:
Established procedures/policies govern most work situations.
Occasional exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
Problems solved by using established procedures.
Leadership Responsibility:
Occasionally provides general orientation to routine policies/procedures.
Sometimes distributes and monitors work.
Impact and Consequence of Error:
Work affects both outside the work unit and outside the University.
Errors are somewhat difficult to recognize and correct and can cause harm
or financial loss to individuals, departments, and the University or to
other individuals and groups.
Working Conditions:
Ongoing possibility of safety risks.
Regular multiple or conflicting demands, time pressures, deadlines or
emergencies.
Regular sustained concentration.
Considerable physical effort or a high degree of fine finger or hand dexterity.
