Medical Examiner Officer
6 days ago
The University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly skilled Medical Examiner Officer to join our team. As a Medical Examiner Officer, you will play a crucial role in scrutinizing the circumstances and causes of death, ensuring transparency, accuracy, and compassion in examining the circumstances and causes of death.
Main Responsibilities- Support Medical Examiners in their role in scrutinizing the circumstances and causes of death.
- Be a point of contact and source of advice for relatives of deceased patients, healthcare professionals, coroner, and registration services.
- Work with Medical Examiners to aid them in their responsibility for overseeing the death certification process for all deceased patients.
- Establish the circumstances of individual patient deaths by performing a preliminary review of medical records to identify clinical and circumstantial information, sourcing additional details where required, for scrutiny by the Medical Examiner.
- Assist in highlighting cases for referral using the governance reporting systems in the Acute Trust, as well as referral using the clinical governance processes for deaths in the community (GP practices), community hospitals, hospices, and private healthcare in East Dorset.
- Education to Bachelor's degree level, or evidence of study/equivalent practical experience at an advanced level.
- Commenced the Medical Examiner e-learning core training modules prior.
- Full understanding of the Medical Examiner system operational remit when incorporated within Bereavement services or as a stand-alone office.
- Experience of working in a healthcare setting with multi-disciplinary teams across organisational boundaries.
- General knowledge of clinical/medical terminology that enables informed discussions about causes/circumstances of death with bereaved families, clinicians, Coroner, and registration services staff.
- Proven experience of meeting deadlines.
- Experience of developing and implementing policy to drive through high-quality standards with system users.
- Extensive use of database packages.
- Experience of using hospital patient information systems.
- Experience of project management.
- Experience of delivering presentations/training.
- Knowledge of special requirements of various faith groups and respect for equality and diversity of issues around formalities following a death to enable respectful compliance with tight and specific timescales and procedures.
- Knowledge of the Coroner and Justice Act 2009 with reference to the medical examiner system.
- Knowledge of hospital patient information systems Symphony, eCamis, ePR, PACS.
- Excellent organisational skills, including high level of accuracy.
- Ability to set up robust processes and IT systems to support case work and reporting function.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Effective communication skills.
- Extensive use of database packages and knowledge and experience of using Microsoft Office i.e. Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
- Negotiating and influencing skills.
- Highly evolved empathic and self-awareness skills to deal with bereaved families who may have barriers to understanding information due to their grief or disability.
- Use of a computer for prolonged periods of time.
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