Deputy Lead Medical Examiner Officer

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the team of the Medical examiners office to assist in supporting the expansion of the service and impact on the care of bereaved families in the area.

The successful post holder will support medical examiners in their role in scrutinising the circumstances and causes of death within the hospital and community. They will be a point of contact and source of advice for bereaved next of kin, healthcare professionals, the coroner and registration services.

To co-ordinate and support the Trust medical examiners and medical examiners officers in their role in scrutinising the circumstances and causes of death. To be a point of contact and source of advice for healthcare professionals in relation to the medical examiners service and also coroner and registration services.

To support in the production of performance monitoring and reporting. The postholder will be responsible for the management and development of Bereavement Services within the Trust and will be required to develop and maintain an efficient sympathetic service to relatives after the death of a patient.

The postholder will be expected to oversee both offices and travel between sites in a cross-site capacity.

Main duties of the job

To co-ordinate and support the Trust medical examiners and medical examiners officers in their role in scrutinising the circumstances and causes of death. To be a point of contact and source of advice for healthcare professionals in relation to the medical examiners service and, also coroner and registration services. To support in the production of performance monitoring and reporting.

The postholder will be required to develop and maintain an efficient sympathetic service to relatives after the death of a patient. The postholder will be expected to oversee both offices and travel between sites in a cross-site capacity.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree level or equivalent experience in any subject
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Completed difficult conversations course
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable experience working as a medical examiner’s officer in an NHS Acute Trust
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of training staff and colleagues
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to engage at all levels including senior clinicians/coroners etc.
• Knowledge of the Criminal Justice act 2009
• Understanding of the Coroners’ processes
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of Hospital Funerals
• Knowledge of the special requirements of the various faith groups with an awareness of equality and diversity issues surrounding death certification and arrangements
• Knowledge and understanding of medical terminology that enables informed discussions about causes/circumstances of death with bereaved families, clinicians, and families.
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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