Generic Job Description
Autopsy Technician II
Grade D
Representative Duties:
- Oversees the daily operation of the autopsy room and morgue.
- Oversees autopsy and morgue procedures to ensure compliance with department and all legal requirements.
- Prepares bodies for postmortem examinations. Washes, dries, measures, and positions bodies. Prepares and preserves tissue and specimens. Assists in body dissection.
- Serves as a source of information to students, support and medical staff on autopsy procedures. Develops and modifies new autopsy techniques and procedures. Recommends and conducts specialized methods and procedures for the removal of organs. Oversees and instructs students, support and medical staff member on these techniques.
- Provides for and ensures that appropriate hygiene and sanitary standards are observed and maintained.
- Sets up, operates and maintains laboratory equipment. Instructs students, support and medical staff on the safe operation of specialized autopsy equipment.
- Records information and completes forms. Responsible for receiving and releasing all bodies. Receives and verifies forms and credentials for permission for autopsy and the receipt and release of all bodies.
- Prepares preserving solutions.
- May oversee the activity of a support staff.
- Orders and maintains inventory of supplies.
- Sets up visual aids for classroom instruction.
- Performs additional
functions incidental to autopsy activities.
Family: Clinical
Job Code: 537 Date: 3/90
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: 537 Autopsy Technician II Grade
D
Required Knowledge:
- Specialized
college-level coursework or Associate degree; 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 or reference database.
- Classifies material for filing; use of straightforward or complex filing systems.
- Summarizes, revises, or makes limited use of complex, technical or specialized material.
- Writes simple internal memoranda, fills out complex forms.
- Regular, skilled use of more complex machines, including word processors or personal computers.
- Modify and perform complex experiments from start to finish.
- Experiments include multiple procedures performed in combination and/or sequence.
Office and Administrative Skills:
- Keyboards forms, labels, and other simple material.
- Formats, stores and files data to generate basic, pre-established reports.
- Schedules and coordinates appointments.
- Advises, screens, and refers callers and visitors.
Experience, Education, and Formal Training:
- Six years of related work experience, four of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and a high school level education; or four years of related work experience and an Associate degree; or little or no work experience and a Bachelor degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
Complexity and Organization:
- Wide variety of complicated job tasks requiring coordinating numerous processes/methods.
- Often coordinates or organizes the work of others.
Interpersonal Relations:
- Ongoing involvement outside immediate unit.
- Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on complex matters.
- Trains, instructs or teaches others in academic, research or other professional matters.
Supervisory Guidelines:
- Work may or may not be reviewed.
- Incumbent plans and schedules own work and/or work of others based on the understanding of broadly defined objectives and priorities; supervisor reviews work after completion.
- Instruction provided only in new situations, methods, procedures that are not clearly related to already existing tasks and duties.
Independent Judgment:
- Established procedures/policies govern some work situations.
- Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
- Problems cannot usually be solved by following established procedures; solutions must be found independently.
Leadership Responsibility:
- Often provides work guidance, instruction or orientation of others.
- Often distributes and monitors work.
Impact and Consequence of Error:
- Work has significant impact both on more than one department and outside the University.
- Errors are not necessarily recognizable and cannot always be corrected and can cause considerable 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, deadlines, emergencies, or time pressures.
- Regular sustained concentration.
- Some physical effort or dexterity
Example 1
Autopsy Technician
II (537)
Salary: D
General purpose:
In conformity with legal requirements and under the supervision of a manager/faculty
member, the autopsy teaching collection specialist will assist in the
preparation of human remains for use as teaching aids and develop, coordinate
and manage the current teaching collection.
Essential duties of position:
- Prepare and preserve organ and tissue specimens as teaching aids.Develop, catalogue and maintain a database of teaching specimens available within the department.
- Assist in the retrieval and set up of teaching specimens for conferences, tutorials, and student teaching labs.
- Catalogue and maintain kodachrome teaching slide sets.
- Set up visual aids for classroom instruction.
- Prepare solutions for preserving specimens.
- Assume responsibility for maintaining the autopsy area, supplies, equipment, and performing autopsy-related special procedures.
- Maintain proper sanitation of autopsy and related facilities.
- Perform additional
functions incidental to autopsy/teaching activities.
Education and training:
- Six years of related work experience, four of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and a high school level education; or four years of related work experience and an Associate degree; or little or no work experience and a Bachelor degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
- Preferred: AS+ degree.
Skills and abilities:
- Ability to identify human organs and tissue specimens.
- Familiarity with computers.
- Must be able to assist in lifting 150+ lbs.
