Medical Examiner | Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 16 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £105,504 - £139,882 Pro Rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 August 2025 |
| Location: | Hull, HU3 2JZ |
| Company: | Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7310208/356-25-7310208 |
Summary
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) created the Medical Examiner service in response to the Shipman Inquiry. Medical examiners provide independent scrutiny of the causes of death in cases not investigated by a coroner. Since 9th September 2024 it has been a statutory requirement for all non-coronial deaths to be scrutinised by a medical examiner.
We require a medical examiner to work an office-based 4-hour session on Monday or Tuesday and Friday afternoons (2 posts), usually based at Hull Royal Infirmary with the occasional requirement to work at Castle Hill Hospital.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust hosts the Medical Examiner Office for Hull and East Yorkshire. Current staffing comprises 1.8 WTE medical examiners and 5.2 WTE medical examiner officers. Relationships with local GPs, mental health facilities, private care sector and the hospice are all in place.
Applicants must have capacity within their working week to accommodate a weekly, fixed four hour session in the medical examiner office.
The medical examiner service is required to provide out of hours weekend cover for early release of the deceased and organ donation. The requirement in Hull and East Yorkshire is low, usually limited to remote cover on Saturday mornings for 2 hours with office attendance rare. Your contract will include on-call cover on occasional Saturday mornings for 2 hours.
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Applications are encouraged from general practitioners and senior doctors of all specialties with GMC Registration and a Licence to Practice for at least 5 years.
Duties will include reviewing the notes of deceased patients, discussing cases with clinical teams and coroner’s service, identifying cases for more detailed review, liaising with the bereaved and training health care professionals in death certification processes.
Your employer will be Hull University Hospitals NHS Trust. Salary will be on the consultant pay scale, calculated according to your previous experience.
Please see attached Job Description for more information
This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Jul 2025