Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As Clinical Medical Examiner Officer you will:
1. Support Medical Examiners in their role in scrutinising the circumstances and causes of death.
2. Have daily responsibility for the ME Office effectiveness (on a rota basis with other Clinical MEO/Lead Clinical MEO).
3. Be a point of contact and provide clinical advice on the Medical Examiners system for healthcare professionals including junior doctors, nursing teams, Hospice, GP's, Coroner's Officers and Registration Services.
4. Deputise for the Senior Clinical Medical Examiner Officer when required.
5. Participate in the Out of Hours Medical Examiner process (weekends and bank holidays);
Key relationships include:
1. Senior Clinical Medical Examiner Officer.
2. Clinical/Medical Examiner Officers and Medical Examiners.
3. Bereavement Services and Mortuary Team.
4. Bereavement Support Nurses.
5. Coroner's Officers and Registrars.
6. Specialty Heads of Services, Matrons and M&M Leads.
7. General Practitioners; Practice Managers and Practice Admin Teams.
8. Hospice Medical and Nursing Staff and Bereavement Team.
9. Learning from Deaths Teams.
10. Adult Specialty, Child, Perinatal, Learning Disability, Mental Health Mortality Leads.
Person specification
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential criteria
1. Ability to review and interpret clinical records (to include diagnostic tests, medication charts and clinical assessments/observations) and judge which information relevant to support cause of death discussion and medical examiner scrutiny.
2. Proven experience of analysing, investigating and interpreting complex data and producing reports.
Desirable criteria
1. Experience of statistical analysis and report writing.
2. Proven experience of Project management skills.
Experience
Essential criteria
1. Educated to degree level in a health care profession and Postgraduate qualification with postgraduate study, or working towards, evidence of ongoing CPD in a specialist clinical area.
2. Experience of working in a health care setting with multi-disciplinary teams across organisational boundaries.
3. To have an extensive understanding of medical terminology that enables interpretation of clinical information and informed discussions about causes/circumstances of death with bereaved families, clinicians, coroner and registration service staff.
Desirable criteria
1. Nursing Registration (Adults/General).
2. Ward or Clinical Department Deputy Manager or Community Health Services Team Leader (or equivalent) or Clinical Nurse Specialist (or Allied Health Professional Equivalent).
Communication and relationship skills
Essential criteria
1. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage at all levels including senior clinicians/coroners etc about sensitive issues.
2. Highly evolved empathetic and self-awareness skills to deal with bereaved families who may have barriers to understanding information due to their grief or disability.
3. To have qualifications/skills in day-to-day operational/process management of a customer-facing service where users may have unpredictable and emotionally charged needs.
Desirable criteria
1. Practical experience of working with the bereaved or families at 'end of life'.
2. Experience of clinical 'advice and guidance' or 'triaging'.
Planning and Organisation
Essential criteria
1. Experience of planning a broad programme of activities and prioritising work to meet deadlines.
2. Ability to organise work around changeable competing demands and fluctuating workloads.
3. Experience of planning a broad programme of activities and prioritising work to meet deadlines. Ability to organise work around changeable competing demands and fluctuating workloads. Ability to maintain a calm manner in a range of challenging and emotive circumstances.
Desirable criteria
1. The ability to work in a highly pressurised, unpredictable environment where bereavement care is central to the service delivery.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
1. Computer literate to use multiple IT software (To include Microsoft Word, Excel), for producing reports and statistical information for the National Medical Examiner's office and Public Health surveillance.
2. Knowledge of the special requirements of various faith groups and respect for equality and diversity of issues around formalities following a death.
3. Knowledge of the Coroner & Justice Act 2009 reference to the medical examiner system.
Desirable criteria
1. Involvement in multi disciplinary / multi agency working.
2. Experience of working with a Medical Examiner Office.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
1. JD CMEO (PDF, 608.3KB)
2. Understanding your right to work in the UK (PDF, 1.1MB)
3. Employee Benefits (PDF, 578.5KB)
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