anatomical pathology technician
ISCO: 2269. Skills: 47. Essential: 32.
Essential skills
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- apply context specific clinical competences
- assist with reconstructing the body after autopsy
- carry out an autopsy
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct visits to the postmortem room
- cope with unusual stimuli in the mortuary facility
- follow clinical guidelines
- follow procedures to control substances hazardous to health
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- infection control
- legal requirements related to mortuary services
- manage infection control in the facility
- medical informatics
- microbiology-bacteriology
- observe confidentiality
- pathological anatomy
- pathology
- perform mortuary facility administration
- perform pathology consultations
- provide information on mortuary services
- select hazard control
- sterilization techniques
- take samples during autopsy
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work with authorities related to mortuary services
Supporting skills
- communicate in foreign languages with health service providers
- conduct routine blood testing
- dispose medical waste
- first aid
- forensic pathology
- medical terminology
- osteology
- perform forensic examinations
- perform PCR covid test
- perform virological test
- toxicology
- train employees
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
- work in a multicultural environment in health care