Salary:£38,626 - £40,476
Hours per week:37 hours
Interview date:week commencing 28 April 2025
Highway and Transport Enhancing Lives, Building Communities
We are looking for an experienced mortuary manager to join our team as the Coroner Service Delivery Manager to ensure a high standard of management, coordination and leadership for our coroners support service.
When a sudden death occurs in the community various services are involved. One such service is provided by the council which involves collecting a patient and ensuring families are informed of how loved ones are to be cared for.
As the Coroner Service Delivery Manager, you will apply expert professional knowledge and experience on behalf of the services involved to ensure the teams operations comply with legal, health and safety regulations while maintaining professionalism, sensitivity, and dignity. You will monitor the quality and outputs of the team, reporting against KPIs to ensure service delivery is effective and compliant, alongside excellent customer care. Other responsibilities will include liaising with service stakeholders such as the coroners office, police and hospitals to ensure systems and processes are followed and coordinating the collection of the deceased from a range of locations and scenarios across Wiltshire & Swindon. Alongside providing support to the team when dealing with difficult cases, providing debriefs and signposting to support provisions where necessary.
Our ideal candidate will be educated to degree level in a relevant profession or have demonstrable equivalent skills and experience. Ideally you will also hold a Level 4 qualification in Management or have equivalent experience leading a shift team. Expert knowledge of statutory requirements and legislation in relation to processing the deceased, and significant experience working in a similar setting governed by legislation and stringent health and safety requirements, will be essential.
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