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C&T Generic Job Description

Clinical Technologist II

Grade D

Representative Duties:

  • Performs specialized laboratory tests and procedures in such areas as history, cytology, cytogenics, medical technology, and histocompatibility.  Records results.
  • Interprets and analyzes results of test and procedures.
  • Tests for and ensures quality control of slides, specimens and cultures.
  • Sets up, operates and maintains laboratory equipment.
  • Oversees and instructs support staff.  Serves as a source of information on specialized laboratory techniques and equipment operation.
  • Prepares specimens, tissue, bodily fluid samples, and other matter for analysis and diagnosis using specialized laboratory techniques.
  • Stains and mounts slides, prepares specialized solutions and media; and cultures tissues.
  • Develops and modifies laboratory techniques and procedures.
  • Orders and maintains inventory of supplies.
  • May photograph specimens and other matter and develop film.
  • Performs additional functions incidental to laboratory activities,

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Job Code: 531 Date: 02/89

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Yale University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 531 Clinical Tech II Grade D


Required Knowledge:

  • Advanced knowledge; college-degree; substantial knowledge in a specialized field; substantial knowledge in 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 a variety of written sources, personal contacts and/or databases selected independently; interpretation/limited analysis of data.
  • Use of one or several standard reference works.
  • Files already labeled material using a straightforward alphabetical or chronological system.
  • Screens complex, technical, or specialized literature for referral.
  • Writes simple internal memoranda, fills out complex forms.
  • Regular, skilled use of more complex machines, including work processors or personal computers; responsible for basic troubleshooting and repair or manipulation of data using published software.
  • Performs complex experiments from start to finish.  Experiments include multiple procedures performed in combination and/or in sequence.

Office and Administrative Skills:

  • Keyboards letters, memos and other moderately complex material.
  • Enters and retrieves data from given sources on a personal computer.
  • Schedules appointments in allotted times.
  • Screens and refers callers and visitors to the appropriate individual.

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 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.
  • Occasionally 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.
  • 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 only in new situations, methods, procedures that are not clearly related to existing tasks and duties.

Independent Judgment:

  • Established procedures/policies govern many work situations.
  • Regular exercises of independent judgment or initiative.
  • Problems solved by choosing solutions from among several alternatives that are not necessarily governed by established procedures.

Leadership Responsibility:

  • Occasionally provides work guidance or orientation for non-routine procedures/policies.
  • Sometimes 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 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.

Certification

                Cytology:                ASCP (CT) Certification

                Histology:                  HT (ASCP) Registered

                Medical Technology:   ASCP Certification

                Histocompatibility:     ASHI Certification preferred

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