Generic Job Description
Autopsy Technician I
Grade C
Representative Duties:
- Prepares bodies for postmortem examinations. Washes, dries, measures, and positions bodies. Prepares and preserve tissue and specimens. Assists in body dissection.
- Sets up, operates and maintains laboratory equipment.
- Prepares preserving solutions.
- Records information and completes forms. Maintains file of specimens used in teaching programs.
- Instructs and serves as a source of information to support staff
on autopsy procedures and equipment operation.
- Orders and maintains inventory of supplies.
- Sets up visual aids for classroom instruction.
Performs additional functions incidental to autopsy activities.
Family: Clinical
Job Code: 525 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: 525 Autopsy Technician I Grade C
Required Knowledge:
General knowledge, high school level; detailed but narrow knowledge in
one or more work-related areas; general acquaintance with a broader field
of knowledge.
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; coding based
on prescribed simple standards.
Uses a dictionary.
Files already labeled material using a straightforward alphabetical, numerical,
or chronological system.
Understands more complicated written instructions, memoranda, policy statements,
etc.
Writes simple internal memoranda, fills out complex forms.
Regular, skilled use of more complex machines, including word processors
or personal computers.
Performs one or several moderately complex laboratory or scientific procedures
that are not reversible and are not expensive to duplicate: records results
as necessary .
Office and Administrative
Skills:
Keyboards forms, labels, and other simple material.
Enters and retrieves data from semi-finished source documents on a personal
computer, requiring both some interpretation of the source document and
a basic understanding of software parameters.
Advises, screens and refers callers and visitors.
Experience, Education
and Formal Training:
Four years of related work experience, two of them in the same job family
at the next lower level, and a high school level education; or two years
of related work experience and an Associate degree; or an equivalent combination
of experience and education.
Complexity and Organization:
Wide variety of complicated job tasks that require coordinating numerous
processes/methods.
Occasionally coordinates or organizes the work of others.
Interpersonal Relations:
Ongoing involvement outside immediate work unit.
Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on general
matters.
Understands and evaluates what is being said and responds with complex
answers that may take time to give.
Supervisory Guidelines:
Work may or may not be reviewed.
Supervisor and incumbent plan, assign and schedule work jointly.
Instruction provided in only new situations, methods, procedures that
are not clearly related to existing tasks and duties.
Independent Judgment:
Established procedures/policies govern many work situations.
Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
Problems solved by choosing solutions form among several alternatives
that are not necessarily governed by established procedures.
Leadership Responsibility:
Occasionally provides work guidance, instruction, or orientation for non-routine
policies/procedures.
Sometimes distributes and monitors work.
Impact and Consequence
of Error:
Work affects both outside the work unit 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, time pressures, deadlines or
emergencies.
Regular sustained concentration.
Some physical effort or
