Mortuary Assistant - Lincoln

Job overview

Path Links is an NHS Pathology Network and is responsible for delivering Mortuary services for both NHS Trusts in Lincolnshire that have facilities at Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Lincoln, Grantham, and Boston.

We are looking to recruit a full-time Mortuary Assistant to support service delivery. Working out of Lincoln the post holder will be required to support and provide cover at other Mortuary sites on a weekly basis.

This job will include dealing with funeral directors and relatives, and direct care of the deceased. Therefore, ideal candidates will have a caring and compassionate nature and will preferably have previous  experience of dealing with the deceased and bereaved families. Candidates will have had a good standard of education up to GCSE level.  A driver’s licence is essential.

Normal working hours:

Weekdays Monday to Friday: normally 08:00 to 17:00 with flexibility to provide cross-site cover as required. There is a requirement to support out of hours cover of the service.

Path Links is committed to continuous improvement and full engagement is expected.

Main duties of the job

Key duties include

• To supervise the receipt of bodies ensuring that they are accurately identified, registered, weighed, measured and labelled prior to storage.
• To keep accurate records of property/valuables/cash that may accompany the deceased, their removal when appropriate and subsequent safe keeping, in line with Trust Policy.
• Entry of deceased patient data onto the mortuary registration system
• To attend to the disinfection, cleaning and general maintenance of the mortuary and equipment.
• Preparation of the deceased for viewing by relatives observing cultural and religious beliefs and applying courtesy and consideration at all times.
• To facilitate the release of bodies to funeral directors in line with Mortuary SOP’s.
• Dealing with telephone enquiries from all service users.
• Maintain a secure environment and monitor access.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.  We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

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