Medical Examiner OfficerinCamberleyinCamberleyPUBLISHED WED 15 JAN 2025

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the small team of the Medical examiners office to assist in supporting the expansion of the service and impact on the care of bereaved families in the area. The successful post holder will support medical examiners in their role in scrutinising the circumstances and causes of death within the hospital and community. They will be a point of contact and source of advice for bereaved next of kin, healthcare professionals, the coroner and registration services.

Main duties of the job

To support the Trust medical examiners in their role in scrutinising the circumstances and causes of death. To be a point of contact and source of advice for healthcare professionals in relation to the medical examiners service and also coroner and registration services. To be a point of contact and source of advice for relatives of deceased patients, healthcare professionals and coroner and registration services. To support in the integration and implementation of systems and processes relating to the Medical Examiner role and the national Learning from Death Strategy. To work alongside the Patient Safety Team to manage the Trust mortality systems across all services ensuring internal and external qualitative and quantitative key performance indicators are managed and achieved.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• A Level qualification or equivalent
• Qualifications/skills in day-to-day operational/process management of a customer facing service where users may have unpredictable and emotionally charged needs.
• Education to GCSE level Maths and English
  
  

Desirable criteria

• National Quality Board Learning from deaths framework and the Structured Judgement Review methodology
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of developing and delivering training
• Experience in managing databases (Excel)
• Experience in dealing with difficult/sensitive conversations.
• Experience of organising work around time pressured, changeable competing demands and fluctuating workloads
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of clinical audit/promoting quality issues within healthcare
• Experience of change management
• To have an understanding of medical terminology that enables informed discussions about causes/circumstances of death with bereaved families, clinicians, coroner and registration service staff.
• Experience of working in a healthcare or related setting with multidisciplinary teams and of working across organisational boundaries
• Experience of clinical audit/promoting quality issues within healthcare
  
  

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Intermediate keyboard skills
• Intermediate use of IT packages eg word, excel, power point, outlook
• Excellent verbal and interpersonal skills, with evidence of good quality report writing, logical problem solving and analytical skills and the ability to engage at all levels including senior clinicians/coroners etc about sensitive issues
• Knowledge of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 and its relation to the Death Certification process.
• 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.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of Trust patient admission system
• Counselling Skills
• Supervisory Skills
  
  

Special requirements

Essential criteria

• Ability to sustain frequent lengths of concentration.
• Assertive and able to make decisions using own initiative.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Presentation skills, written and verbal
• Report writing skills
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment .

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