# Medical Examiner Service Administration Assistant

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
- **Location:** Trust Headquarters, Royal Shrewsbury Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Administrative assistant
- **Grade:** Band 2
- **Salary:** £25,272 per annum/pro rata
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (due to short term funding)
- **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week (Hours to be worked over 4 days)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-18T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-04T15:43:01.383Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Shropshire/Shrewsbury_Telford/The_Shrewsbury_Telford_Hospital_NHS_Trust/Medical_Examiner_Service/Medical_Examiner_Service-v8275063
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8275063?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sath.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Medical Examiner Service are seeking to recruit a motivated and efficient Administration Assistant to our team who has a resilient but compassionate nature.

The post holder will provide administrative support to the Medical Examiner team to assist in ensuring that Medical Certificates of Cause of Death for community deaths are issued in line with, departmental, regional and national policy. Working closely with and supporting both the Medical Examiner Officers and Medical Examiners you will gain an understanding of patient journeys within the health system and help to support those who are bereaved due to the death of a relative in the community.

### Main duties of the job

- To support the Medical Examiner Officers and Medical Examiners with the administrative duties that come with reviewing a death.
- By preparing and processing Medical Examiner documentation, scanning medical certificates to the registrar and necessary documents to and from the Coroner's Service.
- To support the bereaved by taking their phone enquiries and informing them of the Medical Examiner service and what support they will be receiving from the team.
- Ensuring all relatives are sent a bereavement pack with supportive literature.
- To liaise with medical staff at all levels to ensure completion of the medical certificate of cause of death and cremation papers in a timely manner.
- To input and maintain comprehensive data on all the deaths reviewed by our service using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
- To provide administrative support to the Medical Examiner Officers with the running of the office environment.
- To liaise with external providers (GP practices, community hospitals, Hospice, Coroner Service) to ensure accurate MCCDs and fully completed referrals are sent to the service so that prompt medical examiner review can go ahead and completion of the death certificate. Where there is an issue with the MCCD or ME referral, to raise this with the appropriate stakeholder and chase up any amendments required.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled job description.

## Person Specification

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Educated to NVQ Level 3 or above, or equivalent level working experience.

### Experience and Knowledge

**Essential**

- Previous experience of working in a secretarial or administrative role
- Previous experience of working in a customer or patient focussed role
- Demonstrable experience of using Microsoft Word, Excel, Databases and PowerPoint.

**Desirable**

- Experience of working in the NHS
- Knowledge of the Statutory Medical Examiner System

## Documents

- [job pack (pdf, 654.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10590813)

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