Senior Medical Examiner – Death Certification & Governance

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Winchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a proactive and self-motivated doctor to join our team of medical examiners at the North & Mid Hampshire Medical Examiner Service. The role involves scrutinising non-coronial deaths and ensuring proper coroner referrals to support timely bereavement care.

You will work with Medical Examiner Officers across hospital and community settings, contributing to improved mortality data, governance, and patient safety.

Qualifications

• Governance experience would be a strong bonus.
• Experience in mortality or other case record reviews in secondary care or team meetings in primary care.
• Senior doctors from diverse clinical specialties in secondary and primary care.

Responsibilities

• provide independent scrutiny of non-coronial deaths
• ensure the appropriate referral of deaths to the coroner
• contribute towards a better service for the bereaved, including an opportunity for them to raise any concerns
• 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

Skills

Governance experience

Mortality review

Self-motivation

Job description

The Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a proactive and self-motivated doctor to join our team of medical examiners at the North & Mid Hampshire Medical Examiner Service. The role involves scrutinising non-coronial deaths and ensuring proper coroner referrals to support timely bereavement care.

You will work with Medical Examiner Officers across hospital and community settings, contributing to improved mortality data, governance, and patient safety.