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Medical Examiner Officer | Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,970 - £36,483 Pro-rata Per Annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 March 2025 |
| Location: | Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 9RW |
| Company: | Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6947716/245-ADM5MOR-02-25 |
Summary
Medical Examiner Officer - Band 5
15 hours - Permanent
An exciting new opportunity has arisen for someone to become one of the new Medical Examiner Officers within the Trust to support the Medical Examiner team to scrutinise all deaths within Tameside & Glossop.
This is a fantastic opportunity to improve the quality of death certification and review the quality of care given to patients and in turn supporting bereaved relatives.
Your role includes acting as an intermediary between the bereaved and clinicians to establish and resolve any concerns relating to a patient’s death.
Work with medical examiners to aid them in their responsibility for overseeing the death certification process for all deceased patients within the Tameside & Glossop region.
To establish the circumstances of individual patient deaths by performing a preliminary review of medical records to identify clinical and circumstantial information, sourcing additional details where required, for scrutiny by the medical examiner.
To assist in highlighting cases for assessment by the Structured Judgement Review team (SJR), Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP), Clinical Governance teams and the Learning Disability Review Teams (LeDeR).
To refer patients to H.M. Coroner for further investigation on approval by the medical examiner.
You will also work closely with the Bereavement and Mortuary staff teams, as well as the Trust quality and governance teams.
To support medical examiners in their role in scrutinising the circumstances and causes of death. To assist the lead medical examiner officer’s in providing an effective ME service for the Trust and also for the wider community of Tameside & Glossop as agreed with the regional M.E. To be a point of contact and source of advice for relatives of deceased patients, healthcare professionals and coroner and registration services.
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of quality services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children.Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate & these are:
• Safety
• Care
• Respect
• Communication
• Learning
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ people & Disabled people.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focusses on the qualifications, skills,experienceand knowledgerequired. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.
The person specification below is not the full personspecification butoutlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
This advert closes on Monday 17 Feb 2025
15 hours - Permanent
An exciting new opportunity has arisen for someone to become one of the new Medical Examiner Officers within the Trust to support the Medical Examiner team to scrutinise all deaths within Tameside & Glossop.
This is a fantastic opportunity to improve the quality of death certification and review the quality of care given to patients and in turn supporting bereaved relatives.
Your role includes acting as an intermediary between the bereaved and clinicians to establish and resolve any concerns relating to a patient’s death.
Work with medical examiners to aid them in their responsibility for overseeing the death certification process for all deceased patients within the Tameside & Glossop region.
To establish the circumstances of individual patient deaths by performing a preliminary review of medical records to identify clinical and circumstantial information, sourcing additional details where required, for scrutiny by the medical examiner.
To assist in highlighting cases for assessment by the Structured Judgement Review team (SJR), Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP), Clinical Governance teams and the Learning Disability Review Teams (LeDeR).
To refer patients to H.M. Coroner for further investigation on approval by the medical examiner.
You will also work closely with the Bereavement and Mortuary staff teams, as well as the Trust quality and governance teams.
To support medical examiners in their role in scrutinising the circumstances and causes of death. To assist the lead medical examiner officer’s in providing an effective ME service for the Trust and also for the wider community of Tameside & Glossop as agreed with the regional M.E. To be a point of contact and source of advice for relatives of deceased patients, healthcare professionals and coroner and registration services.
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of quality services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children.Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate & these are:
• Safety
• Care
• Respect
• Communication
• Learning
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ people & Disabled people.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focusses on the qualifications, skills,experienceand knowledgerequired. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.
The person specification below is not the full personspecification butoutlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
This advert closes on Monday 17 Feb 2025