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Laboratory Technician for Histopathology, Region Västerbotten

Region Västerbotten works to ensure that good health and sustainable development strengthen each other. We take responsibility for an equitable welfare system and for ensuring that research and innovation yield results. Clinical Pathology is part of Laboratory Medicine, a county-wide organization with operations in Lycksele, Skellefteå, and Umeå.

Laboratory Medicine Västerbotten comprises approximately 520 employees and includes clinical pathology, clinical microbiology, infection prevention and control, clinical genetics, clinical immunology and transfusion medicine, clinical chemistry, biobank, and tissue engineering. Through agreements, we have overall responsibility for clinical pathology in Östersund, including medical leadership responsibility for immunology and transfusion medicine, clinical chemistry, and clinical microbiology.

The operations are accredited, and we work according to the quality system on which Laboratory Medicine's accreditation is based. At the clinical pathology laboratories, approximately 120 people work in Umeå and approximately 15 in Östersund. Thanks to our rapid development and increasing number of analyses, staffing has expanded significantly in recent years, and we have become a large group with strong cohesion, humor, and joy in work.

We are now looking for you who want to work in an engaged team of colleagues for precision work with tissue samples.

1 position(s).

Job Responsibilities

As a laboratory technician with us, you provide important service and enable efforts that contribute to a vital part of our cancer care. Your tasks include, among other things:

• Responsibility for the pre-analytical phase of sample handling
• Sample reception, registration in our patient data system, preparation of samples, and maintenance of equipment
• Perform routine maintenance, replenishment of consumables, and cleaning
• Work according to Laboratory Medicine's quality system

Your placement will be at the Histopathology section, but you may also contribute to department-wide tasks and support other sections within Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine as a whole.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who:

• Have nursing assistant education or other equivalent education/experience.
• Have good communication and collaboration skills.
• Work carefully, methodically, are service-oriented, self-initiating, and take great responsibility for your job.
• Can work independently based on established written methods.
• Have some computer literacy and are quick to acquire new knowledge.
• Experience working with laboratory-related information systems is valued.
• Experience from laboratories, care wards/primary care is meritorious.

Great importance will be attached to personal suitability.

Employment type: Fixed-term employment.
Duration: 6 months or longer, start: As soon as possible according to agreement, end: 2027-12-31.
Working hours: Daytime.

Read more about our benefits for you who work with us on the website https://www.regionvasterbotten.se/nar-du-jobbar-hos-oss/formaner (https://www.regionvasterbotten.se/nar-du-jobbar-hos-oss/formaner)

We strive for an even gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, and therefore welcome applicants from different backgrounds.

In connection with the recruitment process, we have taken a stand regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore explicitly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.

If you have a protected identity and wish to apply, please contact the recruiting manager and then send your application documents by post.