Bereavement Officer

1 month ago


Worthing, United Kingdom 279 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking to employ a Bereavement Officer to join our team at St Richard's Hospital, Chichester.

The role will involve providing an efficient, reliable, responsive and holistic service. You will need to sensitively handle and safe guard deceased patients’ personal effects then returning them to relatives.

The Bereavement Officer will provide a holistic and compassionate service for relatives of patients who die within the hospital. They will carefully and efficiently co-ordinate the process for issuing the medical cause of death documentation to the next of kin, lost property services and the daily mortality process within the trust.

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At UHSussex we’re proud to be at the heart of the NHS. As one of the UK’s largest acute Trusts, we’re a leading example of the excellence, the ambition and the values that have embodied the NHS for over 70 years.

**Improving lives**: We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, with hardworking, talented and dedicated individuals, who work together towards a common goal, to always put our Patient First. Our mission is summed up by our ‘where better never stops’ motto and no matter the role at UHSussex, you will play a part in driving us forwards and in improving the lives of patients across Sussex. We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We’re here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our wellbeing programme for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.

Notifies GPs of the death of a patient.

Information to mortuary

For full details please refer to the attached job description.


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