The post holder will work alongside the Senior Medical Examiner Officer in supporting the Hospital Medical Examiners, ensuring a robust death certification system, and providing assurance to bereaved relatives through appropriate discussion regarding circumstances and cause of death.
The post holder will support the Medical Examiners in the legislative requirements following a patient and community death, working closely with the Senior Medical Examiner Officer and Medical Examiners in scrutinizing the circumstances and causes of death, reporting deaths to the District Coroner, and liaising with the coroner's service on a daily basis.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Act as an intermediary between bereaved families, Senior MEO, and Medical Examiners to assess/establish any concerns relating to death/hospital care.
2. Support the integration and implementation of systems and processes relating to the ME role service and the national learning from death strategy.
3. Maintain communicative links between the Senior MEO, Medical Examiners, Consultants, junior doctors, and bereavement officers.
4. Liaise with Consultants and junior doctors regarding the circumstances of death and assist in training, providing guidance to junior doctors in the death certification process.
5. Collaborate with the Senior MEO, Medical Examiners, and Trust leads with internal and external stakeholders to ensure statutory requirements are maintained.
6. Ensure that the Medical Examiner Service and LFD processes, principles, and standards are maintained, engaging and accessing information required for contributing to national and internal death reporting requirements.
7. Conduct mandatory scrutiny of community deaths, working with GPs, care homes, and other community providers.
Our Organisation:
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient, and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping. We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford, and Epping.
Our Values:
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients, as identified by our three values, contributes to improving our patient experiences:
1. Patient at heart: Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts.
2. Everyday excellence: Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, and learning from both.
3. Creative collaboration: Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills, and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care while building for excellence. In return, we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
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