Medical Examiner

☞ Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Update day: 28-04-2024

Location: Scunthorpe Yorkshire and the Humber

Category: Health / Medical Care

Industry: Hospitals Health Care

Position: Entry level

Job type: Full-time

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We are looking to appoint another Medical Examiner (ME) to work with our established team of Medical Examiners with our Trust.

The role will involve a discussion with the doctor completing the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death, review of the medical records, consideration of the care the patient has received during their final admission, and liaison with family members of the deceased. The ME will also be expected to consider whether cases need to be referred back for further internal review by way of structured judgement review or SI investigation in appropriate cases. If the body is to be cremated the ME will also complete Part 2 of the cremation form. It is an independent role, governed by the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 and will be a post answerable to the National Medical Examiner.

Initially the Trust aims to provide a 5 day/week ME service.

The role will be remunerated at 1 PA per session per week on a Monday afternoon for a 3 year fixed term period and would be based at Scunthorpe General Hospital.

You Are Invited To Apply If You Have
  • At least 5 years experience as a fully registered medical practitioner
  • Are currently practicing either in primary or secondary care
  • Hold a license to practice with the GMC
  • Capacity to undertake the role within your current work load
The main responsibilities of the Medical Examiner are to support the Lead Medical Examiner to:
  • ensure compliance with the legal and procedural requirements associated with the current processes of certification, investigation (by Coroners) and registration of deaths within a Local Authority area
  • support those doctors who call for medical advice on suspected natural causes of death before they prepare an MCCD, and provide general medical advice to the coroner
  • scrutinise the certified causes of all in-scope deaths in a way that is compliant with the proposed national protocol
  • maintain comprehensive records of all deaths scrutinised and undertake analysis and provide information as required to Office for National Statistics (ONS) & locally for clinical governance purposes
  • work with any other local medical examiner(s) to arrange reciprocal cover for holidays and other periods of absence and also to ensure that there is no potential conflict of interest between the medical examiner and the death being scrutinised
  • explain to bereaved relatives cause of death in a transparent, tactful and sympathetic manner, which respects different faith, cultural, ethnic and diversity considerations;
  • Support the training of junior doctors in completion of MCCDs and provide feedback on accuracy of certification locally.
We’re a large organisation with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole. We also provide community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.

We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt ‘best practice’ so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/

Should we receive a high volume of applications for this vacancy, the advert may be closed earlier than stated. To view a full job description and person specification please see attachments on this advert.

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“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Gordon McAdam Job title: Lead Medical Examiner Email address: Gordon.McAdam@nhs.net Telephone number: 03033 305285
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Deadline: 12-06-2024

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