Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 6:00pm, with rotating weekend coverage and Saturdays
Posted Date
12/29/2025
Salary Range $95400 - 208300 Annually
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
27927
Are you passionate about surgical pathology and looking to make a meaningful impact behind the scenes? Join our team as a Pathologists’ Assistant, where you’ll play a vital role in patient care by ensuring accurate specimen processing and supporting groundbreaking research. From grossing complex surgical specimens to training Pathologists’ Assistant students, your expertise will help drive excellence in the lab every day.
In this role, your primary responsibilities include:
•Perform dissection, description, and histologic sampling of a full range of surgical specimens
•Conduct specimen photography and radiography
•Perform frozen sections and other intraoperative consultations
•Procure tissue for tumor banking and research studies
•Identify, investigate, and resolve problems related to surgical pathology
•Assist with accessioning and specimen labeling
•Support the orientation and training of residents, fellows, new staff, and Pathologists’ Assistant students in surgical pathology protocols and procedures
New graduates are welcome to apply!
Salary Range: $95,400.00 - $208,300.00/year
•PA (ASCP) certified or must pass PA (ASCP) exam within 12 months of hire.
•Bachelor’s degree.
•Must be able to work the occasional Saturday.
•Must have the flexibility to work at both the Westwood and Santa Monica locations.
•2 or more years of relevant work experience, preferred.
For more than half a century, UCLA Health has provided the best in healthcare and the latest in medical technology to the people of Los Angeles and throughout the world.
Comprised of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UCLA Medical Center Santa Monica, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, UCLA West Valley Medical Center and the UCLA Medical Group with its wide-reaching system of primary-care and specialty-care offices throughout the region, UCLA Health is among the most comprehensive and advanced healthcare systems in the world.
Our physicians are world leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of complex illnesses, and our hospitals are among the best in the country. Consistently ranked one of the top ten hospitals in the nation and the best medical center in the western United States by U.S. News & World Report, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is at the cutting edge of biomedical research, and our doctors and scientists are leaders in performing pioneering work across an astounding range of disciplines, from organ transplantation and cardiac surgery to neurosurgery and cancer treatment, and bringing the latest discoveries to virtually every field of medicine.
