Medical Examiner Officer | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 13 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £34,089 - £41,498 Per annum inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, E1 1FR |
| Company: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6308010/259-6308010GSS |
Summary
Medical Examiner Officer (MEO), Band 5
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated medical examiner officer to join our busy team.The successful candidate would be joining an existing close and friendly team of MEOs who work collaboratively and have a strong ‘can do’ attitude.
Medical Examiner Officers (MEO) are the backbone of the service. Theyprovide the continuity and oversight that the service requires and support theMedical Examiners (ME)in the scrutiny process by managing cases from initial notification through to completion.
The MEO role incorporates administrative skills, excellent communication skills and liaison under delegated authority from the ME with clinical teams and bereaved families
The successful candidate would require excellent communication and interpersonal skills, while displaying diplomacy, due to the sensitive nature of the role. Tobe a point of contact and source of advice for relatives of deceased patients, healthcare professionals and coroner and registration services.
The medical examiner service scrutinise deaths occurring within Bart’s Health NHS Trust hospital sites and deaths within the boroughs of City of London, Tower Hamlets, Newham, and Waltham Forest.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
In April 2024, the Government confirmedthe statutory medical examiner system, work is taking place for the full introduction of the statutory system from September 2024.
Once fully in place every non-coronial death in England and Wales will be independently scrutinised by a medical examiner.
Independent proportionate scrutiny identifies how the patient died - ensuring accuracy of the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death, whether the clinical team or next of kin had any concerns about care, and whether the case needs notification to HM Coroner, or any other form of escalation.
If the successful candidate has not been formally trained by the the Royal College of Pathologists there is the expectation to self-fund this within 6 months (dependent on course availability)
The MEO role requires onsite working. The team offices are based in two hospitals within Barts Health NHS Trust, there is an expectation of cross-site working.
The usual hours for this role are 08:00 -16:00 (Monday to Friday)
The role also requires a commitment to out of hours MEO bank rota (currently 08:00 – 11:00 weekends and bank holidays).
All staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate the Barts Health WeCare values.
Please contact Dawn Harvey at dawn.harvey@nhs.net, if you would like any further information on this role, informal conversations are encouraged but please note site visits/formal meetings are not able to be facilitated at this current moment in time.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the Job description attached.
This advert closes on Monday 27 May 2024