Senior Medical Examiner Officer • Torquay Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
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{"interviewQueryText":"What are some good interview questions in British English for the job description below?\n\n-------------------------------------------\n\nSenior Medical Examiner Officer with Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust in Torquay\n\n TSDFT is looking to recruit an enthusiastic and highly motivated Medical Examiner Officer. The role of the Medical Examiner Officer is to support medical examiners and the Senior Medical Examiner Officer in their role in scrutinising the circumstances and causes of death, and to be a point of contact for coroner and registration services. They will also be a source of advice for relatives of deceased patients, healthcare professionals and the bereavement service. The Medical Examiner Officer role is anticipated to be hugely rewarding and will improve personal skills for the successful applicant. It is also a highly responsible and involved role and will require a dedicated and driven applicant. The Medical Examiners Office is an independent service hosted by Torbay Hospital. The team consists of Medical Examiner Officers who support the Medical Examiner with the focus of providing greater safeguards for the public by ensuring proper scrutiny of all non - coronial deaths ensuring the appropriate referral of deaths to the coroner providing a better service for the bereaved and an opportunity for them to raise any concerns to a Doctor not involved in the care of the deceased improving the quality of death certification improving the quality of mortality data About us The role will involve not only working closely with the Medical Examiners in their independent scrutiny of deaths, but also with the physicians caring for patients in order to determine that deaths are appropriately recorded and in a timely fashion, and communicating the recorded causes of death with relatives of the bereaved. This role will incorporate administrative skills in ensuring necessary paperwork is accurate and complete, but also excellent communication skills during liaison with the multidisciplinary team, families, and where appropriate, the Coroners' services. Part of the day to day work will also involve investigation work and perusal of patient notes. Please see main job description for more information "}