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Job requirements
Essential
8 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Trust Values and Behaviours
Patients First
- Trust Values and Behaviours
Always Improving
- Trust Values and Behaviours
Working Together
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Educated to degree level (or equivalent) with previous experience in a relevant healthcare setting
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Completed e-learning MEO core training modules prior to starting in the post
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Experience of working with the patient safety team, bereavement care team or within the mortality review process.
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
General knowledge of clinical/medical terminology
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Competent in the use of IT software systems and handling sensitive personal identifiable data
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Experience of working in a healthcare setting with multi-disciplinary teams across organisational boundaries
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Specialist knowledge of various faith groups’ funeral wishes/practices to enable respectful compliance with tight and specific timescales and procedures
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Knowledge of the Coroner & Justice Act 2009 reference to the medical examiner system. Full understanding of the medical examiner system operational remit when incorporated within Bereavement Services or as a stand-alone office.
Job overview
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Job Title: Medical Examiner Officer
Contract Type: Permanent
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team at Medical Examiner Southampton as a customer-focused, friendly and enthusiastic individual.
As part of our team you will deliver a now statutory requirement of review following death.
You will work closely with both hospital and community clinicians to ensure robust scrutiny and great communication at this time of great importance for families.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will be responsible for working alongside the medical examiners and other MEOs in order to facilitate timely and effective review of cases.
In this role, your key responsibilities will include;
To act as an intermediary voice between the bereaved, clinicians and bereavement service.
To establish and resolve any concerns relating to a patients death. Work with medical examiners to aid them in their responsibility for overseeing the death certification process for all deceased patients in both hospital and community settings.
Provide preliminary scrutiny and accurate documentation to aid and establish the cause of death.
You are a remote customer-facing service and require excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
You should have an inquiring mind and attention to detail.
You must be empathetic, professional reliable and proficient in using IT systems.
The role is 15 hours a week and the office is open 8.30-4.30 Monday to Friday (No weekends or BH).
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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This advert is for Medical Examiner Officer with University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust in Southampton, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Medical examiner officer role. The advertised salary is £32,073 to £39,043 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 20 Oct 2026.
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