Job Description
The Pathology Accessioner is responsible for receiving, sorting, identifying, and data-entering all clinical and anatomical specimens delivered to the laboratory. This role ensures absolute accuracy in patient identification, matches requisition forms with sample containers, assigns unique laboratory tracking numbers, and routes specimens to their appropriate processing areas while maintaining strict adherence to regulatory and safety standards.
Job Responsibility
- Accurately register and log incoming surgical pathology, cytology, and clinical specimens into the Laboratory Information System (LIS)
- Generate unique barcode tracking tissue cassettes and labels for specimen containers
- Assist with transferring samples to another facility
- Receipt of slides from sending facility
- Inventory management
- Disposition of specimen
- Maintain temperature and maintenance logs
- Performm related duties as required
Job Qualification
- High School Diploma or equivalent required.
- 0-1 years of technical experience, required.
- Prior accessioner experience preferred
*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).
Skills Required
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- 0-1 years of technical experience
- Prior accessioner experience
What We Do
Northwell Health is New York’s largest private employer and health care provider, with 23 hospitals and nearly 800 outpatient facilities. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 74,000+ employees – 18,500+ nurses and 14,200+ credentialed physicians, including about 4,500 employed doctors and nearly 3,300 members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better. We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu. Interested in a career at Northwell Health?
