Senior Mortuary Technician

Job overview

The successful candidate should have experience of working in a mortuary and experience of conducting postmortems to a high standard.  The mortuary and Sandwell Health campus performs post mortems on behalf of the Black Country Coroner and can deal with some quite distressing scenarios through this, the successful candidate should have experience in being able to deal with such cases.

The successful candidate needs to be able to manage patient capacity over 2 sites and maintain a high level of respect and dignity for our patients.  They need to be able to maintain traceability over our patients and tissue samples and be aware of how to escalate issues if required.

They need to be able to participate in writing and updating SOPs and assist in risk management and conducting mortuary audits.  They will facilitate viewings for our patients.

SWBH also has a maternity department, so there is the requirement to also manage NVF's, stillbirths and neonatal deaths.  The successful candidate will also support the certificate office manager as required.  There is also the requirement for them to be part of the on call roster, for out of hours assistance which we provide 24/7.

The successful candidate also will be required to ensure the maintenance of equipment in department.  There is also the expectation to train other staff in the mortuary and trust as required and ensure staff competencies are kept up to date.

Main duties of the job

• To perform post mortems
• To manage capacity of the mortuary
• To care for the deceased patients in our care
• To abide by HTA regulations
• To create/update Standard Operating Procedures
• To monitor and gather data to assist in the running of the mortuary
• To manage the mortuary in the absence of the mortuary manager
• To facilitate viewings on deceased patients
• To participate in an 'on-call' roster

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To work as a Senior APT across 2 sites (Sandwell Health Campus and MMUH).  To perform post mortems on behalf of the Black Country coroner.  To assist the Mortuary Manager in the running of both mortuary's, managing capacity and training staff.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of what this role entails