Anatomic Pathology Technician

NHS Professionals Limited; Southampton; In loco; GBP 26.000 - 34.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

NHS Professionals is recruiting for an Anatomic Pathology Technician to join the Pathology Department at University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust. The role supports a comprehensive mortuary service, carrying out routine and specialised autopsy activities.

You will have NHS mortuary experience, assist senior mortuary staff, handle data entry, and help liaise with funeral directors. The post is full-time with Monday–Friday hours, 8:30 to 16:30.

Competenze

• Experience in NHS mortuary settings and body checks.
• Experience liaising with funeral directors within a mortuary context.
• Ability to support senior mortuary staff in daily operations.

Mansioni

• Receive and register deceased patients within the Trust and local health economy.
• Enter patient data on the laboratory computer system.
• Identify and register patient effects per legal requirements.
• Store the patient according to condition and department protocols.
• Facilitate patient identification confirmation.
• Prepare patient for autopsy and assist during autopsy with tissue handling and data collection.
• Ensure records are maintained and policies followed for organ and tissue retention.

Conoscenze

Mortuary experience

Funeral director liaison

Formazione

Diploma or Level 3/4 in Anatomical Pathology Technician

Descrizione del lavoro

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.