Anatomic Pathology Technician

NHS; Southampton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking an Anatomic Pathology Technician to join the Pathology Department at University Hospital Southampton. The successful candidate will assist in delivering comprehensive mortuary services, conducting both routine and specialized autopsy services, and liaising with funeral directors. This full-time role also includes various responsibilities such as patient registration, data entry, and ensuring compliance with legal requirements.

Benefits

Flexible shifts

Access to Learning & Development opportunities

Wellbeing resources

Paid annual leave

Qualifications

• Sound experience of undertaking Cat 3 post mortems.
• Experience with peri-natal and paediatric post mortems.

Responsibilities

• Receive and register deceased patients, maintain patient identification.
• Prepare and assist during the autopsy process.
• Ensure compliance with organ and tissue retention policies.

Skills

Post mortem experience

Liaising with funeral directors

Education

Diploma or Level 3 / 4 in Anatomical Pathology Technician

Job description

NHS Professionals are currently recruiting for an Anatomic PathologyTechnician to join the Pathology Department at University Hospital SouthamptonNHS Trust FT. The role requires the successful candidate to assist in theprovision of a comprehensive Mortuary service to the Trust and Southampton CityCoroner, carrying out both routine and specialised autopsy services.

Main duties of the job

As a Mortuary Technician, you will be expected to have sufficientprevious experience of working within an NHS mortuary setting, particularlyexperienced in doing body checks and liaising with funeral directors.

On a day-to-day basis you will be supporting the senior mortuary staff inthe delivery of the service.

The service operates Monday to Friday from 8:30 to 16:30 and the idealcandidate will be able to work full-time.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Job responsibilities

• Toreceive and register patients who have died from both within the Trust andacross the local health economy.
• Enteringpatient data on to the laboratory computer system.
• Toidentify and register patients effects according to existing legalrequirements.
• Tostore the patient according to the patients condition e.g. infectious state, inaccordance with department protocols.
• Tofacilitate the confirmation of the patient identification.
• Preparepatient for autopsy.
• Assist during the autopsyprocess. This will include the removal of viscera, the display of tissues forteaching purposes, use of specialist techniques when required, tissue andsample taking where appropriate, data collection.
• To comply with all Department and Trust policies and procedures relatingto organ and tissue retention and ensue that records are correctly maintained.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• - Sound experience of undertaking Cat 3 post mortems (dissection and circulator)
• - Sound experience of undertaking Peri-natal and Paediatric post mortems
• - Diploma or Level 3 / 4 qualifications in Anatomical Pathology Technician

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.