Nhs Careers – Medical Examiner Officer In Cardiff

Overview

Position Title:Medical Examiner Officer

Company:North Bristol NHS Trust

Location:Cardiff, UK

Job Description:

Full time and part time Medical Examiner Officer (MEO) positions are now available in the recently implemented Medical Examiner Service for Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG). This is an opportunity to be part of a new and expanding service which aims to provide independent scrutiny of all deaths across BNSSG by 2022. You’ll work with a multidisciplinary team both internally and externally including Medical Examiners and other medical staff, HM Coroner’s Office, Bereavement Services staff and Registration Services, as well as having close contact with bereaved families.

Responsibilities:

• Chance to be part of a varied and skilled multidisciplinary team with a high level of autonomy and responsibility
• You will be part of a developing, ambitious NHS service with plenty of opportunity for personal and professional growth and an impact on service improvement
• Highly rewarding role contributing to patient safety, improving the experience of bereaved families, and informing national health policy by ensuring accurate cause of death statistics

Requirements:

• Strengthen safeguards for the public by providing robust, systematic and independent scrutiny of all deaths not referred directly to the Coroner (cause of death and circumstances impacting on the death); provide intelligent analysis and system level reporting of concerns found during scrutiny; and ensure that appropriate deaths are referred to HM Coroner
• Improve the quality of death certification by providing expert advice to doctors based on a review of relevant health records
• Avoid unnecessary distress for the bereaved by answering questions about the certified cause of death, the care given, or those that arise from unexpected delays when registering a death.