Medical Examiner Officer

Job overview

The purpose of the Medical Examiner Officer (MEO) role is to support Medical Examiners in their role in scrutinising the circumstances and causes of death, and to be a point of contact and source of advice for relatives of deceased patients, healthcare professionals and coroner and registration services.

Please be advised sponsorship is not eligible for this post.

Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

Main duties of the job

• To act as an intermediary between the bereaved and clinicians to establish and resolve any concerns relating to a patient’s death.
• To act as a source of expertise, advice and knowledge for relatives and healthcare professionals involved in the process.
• Work with medical examiners to aid them in their responsibility for overseeing the death certification process for all deceased patients in the organisation.
• To establish the circumstances of individual patient deaths by performing a preliminary review of medical records to identify clinical and circumstantial information, sourcing additional details where required, for scrutiny by the medical examiner.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To assist in highlighting cases for assessment by the Structured Judgement Review team (SJR), Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP), Clinical Governance teams and the Learning Disability Review Teams (LeDeR).
• To refer patients to the coroner for further investigation on approval by the medical examiner
• Maintain an awareness of the diverse needs of users of the medical examiner system to ensure equality to any particular group defined by sex, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or disability.
• To provide training / guidance on the ME system for medical students and doctors in training or local employment on an ongoing basis.
• To ensure all patient records are accurate, maintained and updated to include the outcome of the ME scrutiny and these are kept secure.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.