Medical Examiner

Hampshire Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A major hospital service provider in Basingstoke is seeking a proactive Medical Examiner to ensure independent scrutiny of non-coronial deaths. The ideal candidate will have experience in caring for diverse patients and familiarity with mortality review processes. This role is essential for improving death certification quality and supporting bereaved families.

Qualifications

• Experience of caring for and reviewing a broad cross-section of patients.
• Experience of mortality review/governance would be a strong bonus.

Responsibilities

• Provide greater safeguards for the public by ensuring independent scrutiny of all non-coronial deaths.
• Ensure the appropriate direction of deaths to the coroner.
• Provide a better service for the bereaved.

Job description

Responsibilities

• provide greater safeguards for the public by ensuring independent scrutiny of all non-coronial deaths
• ensure the appropriate direction of deaths to the coroner
• provide a better service for the bereaved and an opportunity for them to raise any concerns to a doctor not involved in the care of the decreased
• improve the quality of death certification
• support local learning and improvement by identifying matters that require escalation to local clinical governance and other processes
• improve the quality of mortality data

The ME service interacts with many clinical specialities from both the acute and non-acute setting, strengthening links between the health services, coroners' offices and register offices. Medical Examiners are senior doctors from a diverse variety of clinical specialties in secondary and primary care. We are looking to recruit someone with experience of caring for and/or reviewing a broad cross-section of patients; and in particular experience of mortality review / governance would be a strong bonus. You will work closely with our team of Medical Examiner Officers, who are vital to the efficient running of the service.

We are seeking to appoint a proactive and self-motivated doctor to join our team of medical examiners at North & Mid Hampshire Medical Examiner Service.

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the major provider of hospital services to the population of North and mid Hampshire and surrounding areas. The hospitals in Basingstoke and Winchester provide a comprehensive range of acute services as well as being a tertiary referral centre for colorectal, liver, peritoneal carcinomatosis, haemophilia and pseudomyxoma surgery.