Medical Examiner

We are recruiting for aMedical Examinerwho shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

The ME team will consist of a lead ME and up to 11 other MEs. We are looking for colleagues to provide 1 session of 4 hours each week based on a 42 week year. You would be expected to offer sessions with a degree of flexibility to fulfill a rota.

There is currently no commitment beyond office hours. The job is based at University Hospital, Lewisham and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, but elements of the work will be possible remotely using electronic systems to scrutinise patient records and telephone calls to bereaved relatives and attending medical colleagues. Competence with electronic systems is necessary to review records and complete notes. Team working is important, particularly with our team of Medical Examiners and Medical Examiner Officers, and also with Coroners, General Registrars and Legal Services. You should have up to date knowledge of medical practice and have completed the mandatory online learning by the time of interview and be in the process of registering for the face-to-face training with the College of Pathologists.

You must be currently registered with a license to practice with the GMC, have at least 5 years' experience as a fully registered medical practitioner and be currently practising or have retired in the last 5 years.

Here at Lewisham Greenwich NHS Trust, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Lewisham Greenwich NHS comply the Trust’s Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the new Lewisham & Greenwich Medical Examiner service. Based on based sites, our Medical Examiners (ME) and Medical Examiners Officers (MEO) are responsible for scrutinising all inpatient deaths under the guidance of the lead Medical Examiner. We are seeking to expand our ME office to prepare for and commence scrutiny of all non-coronal deaths in hospital and in the communities of Lewisham & Greenwich.

The service acts to streamline the process of providing bereaved families with an explanation and opportunity to discuss the death certificate (MCCD) and advising clinical teams. MEs will identify concerns raised by both staff and the bereaved about individual cases and identify themes arising from these. You will work closely with the Learning from Deaths system and existing clinical governance systems as well as the coronial system and registrars.