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Medical Examiner
| Posting date: | 27 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £105,504 to £139,882 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £105504 - £139882 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 June 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham, B15 2TH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C0020-25-0918 |
Summary
Medical Examiners must be registered with a license to practise in the UK by the GMC, with at least five years experience. The candidate must have been registered as a medical practitioner throughout the previous five years as at the date of appointment. The main responsibilities of the ME are: * To ensure compliance with the legal and procedural requirements associated with the current and proposed reformed processes of certification, investigation by coroners and registration of deaths. * To scrutinise the certified causes of death offered by attending doctors in a way that is proportionate, consistent and compliant with the proposed national protocol. * To discuss and explain the cause of death with next of kin/informants in a transparent, tactful and sympathetic manner. It is anticipated that such discussions will be predominately conducted through telephone conversations where barriers to understanding information may exist. * To ensure that all users of the ME system are treated with respect and are not discriminated against on the grounds of sex, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or disability. * To maintain comprehensive records of all deaths scrutinised and undertake analysis to provide information to the National Medical Examiner office. * To participate in relevant clinical governance activities relating to death certification including audits, mortality review processes, benchmarking exercises and investigations regarding formal complaints about patient care. * To support the training of resident doctors in their understanding of death certification and promote good practice in accurate completion of MCCDs. * To work with medical examiner officers (MEOs), delegating duties as appropriate. * To engage with lead ME and lead MEO for the region. * To adopt a collaborative working relationship with other MEs by sharing experiences and expertise to support peer learning and set uniform standards of service delivery. * To be present in the Medical Examiners office for a PA session each week as part of an ongoing rota. There is an expectation that individuals demonstrate flexibility to fill rota gaps at any other hospital site across UHB when these arise and provide availability as part of the out of hours ME rota. [NOTE: the above list of duties is not exhaustive and is subject to change with Nationalupdates] Please see the attached Job Description