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Regional Medical Examiner - London | NHS England
| Posting date: | 12 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £100,000 - £113,625 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 September 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE1 6LH |
| Company: | NHS England |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6523877/990-LON-6523877-E |
Summary
As the Regional Lead Medical Examiner for London, you will provide leadership and guidance to ensure that the medical examiner system in the London region operates to the standards required in the statutory system and is governed effectively, advising where necessary on the configuration of local systems.
• You will offer leadership and support to medical examiners in your region, including providing them with an independent professional line of accountability outside of their own organisation where they are employed as a medical examiner.
• Reporting to the National Medical Examiner, you will support the national role by ensuring that the medical examiner system in London is operating effectively and is meeting the requirements of the statutory system, and update the National team with qualitative information as well as any issues arising.
• You will also have a dotted line reporting relationship to the London NHS England regional medical director and will participate in regional mortality governance arrangements.
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
• To provide professional leadership and guidance to medical examiners within the specified region.
• To act as the representative of the National Medical Examiner within the specified region, including formally deputising on their behalf where required.
• To advise the National Medical Examiner on the operation of the medical examiner system within London and to highlight any issues that require national attention.
• To provide support and guidance where necessary to resolve any local issues that may arise in relation to the running of medical examiner systems.
• To ensure that all medical examiners and medical examiner officers within the region comply with the legal and procedural requirements of the statutory processes of death certification, investigation by coroners and registration of deaths.
• To ensure that all medical examiner offices in the region maintain comprehensive records of all deaths scrutinised and that they undertake the required collection and analysis of information as specified by the National Medical Examiner.
• To provide an independent line of professional accountability for all medical examiners in the region.
• To provide professional advice in complex cases which are not able to be handled at local level in terms of relevant clinical governance activities relating to death certification processes. This may include requesting audits, studying mortality review processes and investigations regarding formal complaints about patient care.
• To support local and regional analysis of Medical Certificate Cause of Death information to identify trends, patterns and unusual features of deaths, ensuring that this information is shared across the medical examiner offices with the NHS England region and reported, as required, to the National Medical Examiner’s office.
• To provide information and reports on mortality related issues to the NHS England Regional Medical Director and their team and to participate in regional mortality governance arrangements.
• To link with other programmes that review and investigate deaths (e.g. Child Death Overview Panels, mental health, Learning Disabilities Mortality Reviews, maternal deaths) to ensure appropriate governance and that learning is shared.
• To work with the National Medical Examiner to ensure that best practice and learning themes are shared and embedded between and across regions.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
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