Gross Room Technologist

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Department of Pathology

Gross Room Technician (Healthcare Professional)

Position #:00795615 - Requisition #:39845

Job Summary:

The Pathology Grossing Technician (GT) (Healthcare Intermediate Professional) is an allied health professional who provides technical support in anatomic pathology under the direction of the gross room supervisor and surgical pathology faculty. The laboratory receives and processes specimens from the operating rooms and clinics throughout the hospital and health care organization.

The GT grosses simple anatomic pathology specimens as well as interacting with other allied health professionals, such as nurses and support staff, to ensure adequate and appropriate processing of patient specimens.

Additionally, the GT must have a broad understanding of the day-to-day operations of the gross room and is critical in maintaining organization and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

Primary Responsibilities - 85%

• Proper accessioning of surgical pathology cases
• Specimen triage
• Staining slides during intraoperative consultation
• Distributing appropriate specimen containers, requisitions and tissue cassettes
• Printing additional tissue cassettes
• Organizing tissue cassettes numerically
• Gross Room maintenance
• Organization of work areas
• Stocking supplies
• Monitoring supply inventory
• Assisting various staff
• Filing paperwork
• Answering telephones and faxing
• Grosses simple, non-complex surgical pathology specimens including core biopsies, small biopsies, bone marrows, skin biopsy, and excisions.
• Supports pathologists, residents, pathologists' assistants, lab assistants and student interns when in the gross room.
• Uses cryostat to section intraoperative frozen sections and assists in staining frozen section slides.
• Triages specimens according to proper protocols and requirements for ancillary studies and/or biorepository tissue collection

Secondary Responsibilities - 15%

• Attends renal biopsy procedures to assess biopsy adequacy
• Facilitates organization of cassettes and transport to tissue processors
• Documents time data points for various tracking mechanisms
• Photograph pertinent gross specimens

Work Location: Onsite - this role is expected to work onsite and is located in Aurora, CO.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution and 1 year of professional experience in a surgical pathology laboratory

An advanced degree (Masters or Doctorate) may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis if the degree is in a field of study directly related to the work assignment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Two (2) years of experience in a clinical lab
• Prior experience in an academic medicine environment

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to communicate effectively, both in writing and orally.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees at all levels throughout the institution.
• Outstanding customer service skills.
• Experience using laboratory equipment such as complex machinery and staining systems.
• Experience using MS Word and Excel. Preferred experience will include developing reports, spreadsheets, and databases using the mentioned software programs.
• Experience entering data into an electronic system.
• Experience with medical terminology, human anatomy, and physiology.
• Experience cleaning and maintaining laboratories and lab equipment.
• Experience working within an educational medical lab environment in laboratories.

Anticipated Pay Range:

The starting salary range (or hiring range) for this position has been established as $68,971 - $76,677.

Screening of Applications Begins: Applications will be accepted until finalists are identified, but preference will be given to complete applications received by May 15, 2026.