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Medical Examiner | Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 06 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 08 March 2025 |
| Location: | Basingstoke/Winchester, RG24 9NA |
| Company: | Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6994420/251-MD25025 |
Summary
“The next of kin are at the heart of everything we do”
We are seeking to appoint a proactive and self-motivated doctor to join our team of medical examiners at North & Mid Hampshire Medical Examiner Service.
Since 9 September 2024 when the service became statutory, all acute, non-acute and community deaths that do not require a coroner’s referral must be scrutinised by a medical examiner before the death can be registered.
The successful applicant will
• provide greater safeguards for the public by ensuring independent scrutiny of all non-coronial deaths
• ensure the appropriate direction of deaths to the coroner
• provide a better service for the bereaved and an opportunity for them to raise any concerns to a doctor not involved in the care of the decreased
• improve the quality of death certification
• support local learning and improvement by identifying matters that require escalation to local clinical governance and other processes
• improve the quality of mortality data
The ME service interacts with many clinical specialities from both the acute and non-acute setting, strengthening links between the health services, coroners' offices and register offices.
Medical Examiners are senior doctors from a diverse variety of clinical specialties in secondary and primary care. We are looking to recruit someone with experience of caring for and/or reviewing a broad cross-section of patients; and in particular experience of mortality review / governance would be a strong bonus. You will work closely with our team of Medical Examiner Officers, who are vital to the efficient running of the service.
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the major provider of hospital services to the population of North and mid Hampshire and surrounding areas. The hospitals in Basingstoke and Winchester provide a comprehensive range of acute services as well as being a tertiary referral centre for colorectal, liver, peritoneal carcinomatosis, haemophilia and pseudomyxoma surgery.
The Medical Examiner (ME) must be a medical practitioner registered with a licence to practise in the UK by the GMC, with at least five-years of experience. The post-holder must have been registered as a medical practitioner throughout the previous five years as at the date of appointment.
The main responsibilities are to:
• ensure compliance with the legal and procedural requirements associated with the current processes of certification, investigation (by coroners) and registration of deaths
• support those doctors who call for medical advice on suspected natural causes of death
• scrutinise the certified causes of all in-scope deaths
• maintain comprehensive records of all deaths scrutinised and undertake analysis for clinical governance purposes
• explain to bereaved relatives cause of death in a transparent, tactful and sympathetic manner
• support the training of junior doctors in completion of MCCDs
• engage with relevant governance activities relating to death certification
• support the Medical Examiner Officers in carrying out their role and with their continuing professional development
• Attend catch-up meetings for all MEs and MEOs which are currently 6 per year (4 x remote, 1 x face to face on either RHCH or BNHH site, and 1 'Away Day' (in-house training off site face to face).
For further details / informal visits or to arrange a conversation with our Lead ME, Lisa Birkett 01962 824073
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Mar 2025