Are you looking for your next challenge? Do you want to work for a team that makes a difference, every single day, to bereaved people in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent?
The North Midlands Medical Examiner Service team are looking for a Senior Medical Examiner Officer to oversee a team responsible for managing the legal processes and administrative practicalities after a patient’s death. You will have the ability to balance empathy with the need to make decisions and problem solve. You will have a positive outlook, be able to motivate teams and have high levels of resilience and emotional intelligence.
The ideal candidate would have:
* Significant experience in a patient or customer facing role
* Experience (or working knowledge) of current death certification systems
* An understanding of medical terminology to enable discussion with medical professionals, bereaved people, Coroner & Registration Service staff
* Strong communication skills and be comfortable working with the bereaved
* The ability to build and maintain effective working relationships
* Experience managing and leading teams
The role is full time, office-based and will work cross-site to meet service needs. Participation in weekend, bank holiday and on-call rota cover will be required.
The post holder will support Medical Examiners in their role of scrutinising the circumstances and causes of a patient’s death. The service will strengthen safeguards for the public by providing robust, systematic and independent scrutiny of deaths not referred directly to the Coroner; improve the quality of death certification; and avoid unnecessary distress for the bereaved, by answering questions about the causes and circumstances of a death.
The role involves providing supervision to a team of Medical Examiner Officers, including managing performance, training and wellbeing. The post holder will act as a senior point of contact and source of advice for relatives of deceased patients, healthcare professionals, Coroner and Registration Services.
The post holder will take responsibility for managing case progression and ensuring an efficient workflow, within agreed timescales in a high pressured environment. The post holder will ensure that the service is maintained in accordance to local and national guidelines and requirements, as directed by the Ministry of Justice and Department of Health and Social Care.
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by our staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Samuel Townshend Job title: Deputy Head of Bereavement & ME Services Email address: Samuel.Townshend@uhnm.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01782 676390
Informal enquiries are welcomed prior to applying for this post. Please email Samuel.Townshend@uhnm.nhs.uk in the first instance.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Industries
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