Medical Examiner - Fairfield, United Kingdom - Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

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Fairfield, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge.

Together, we've a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore.

If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
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come and take your place with us.

Job overview:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a number of Medical Examiners to join the established Medical Examiner Service with the NCA.

The Northern Care Alliance encompasses four hospital sites, Salford Royal Hospital The Royal Oldham Hospital, Fairfield General Hospital and Rochdale Infirmary.

The NCA has three successful Medical Examiner Officers across three of our Care Organisations.

We are about to venture into the next phase of implementation which will see scope of practice expand into the Community setting.

This is an exciting time to join the team.

Main duties of the job:

To ensure compliance with the legal and procedural requirements associated with the current and proposed reformed processes of certification, investigation by coroners and registration of deaths.

To scrutinise the certified causes of death offered by attending doctors in a way that is proportionate, consistent and compliant with the proposed national protocol.

To discuss and explain the cause of death with next of kin/informants in a transparent, tactful and sympathetic manner. It is anticipated that such discussions will be predominantly conducted through telephone conversations.

To ensure that all users of the ME system are treated with respect and are not discriminated against on the grounds of sex, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or disability.

To maintain comprehensive records of all deaths scrutinised and undertake analysis to provide information to the National Medical Examiner's office.

To participate in relevant clinical governance activities relating to death certification including audits, mortality review processes and investigations regarding formal complaints about patient care.

To support the training of junior doctors in their understanding of death certification and promote good practice in accurate completion of MCCDs.

To work with medical examiner officers (MEOs), delegating duties as appropriate.

To engage with lead ME and lead MEO for the region.

Working for our organisation:

The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) is one of the largest NHS organisations in the country.

Launched in April 2017, the NCA serves over one million people across Greater Manchester and employs over 19,000 healthcare professionals across Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham.

The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. At the NCA, we can offer groupwide, flexible multi-site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and engaged team.

We believe in saving and improving lives and are passionate about driving forward significant improvements to the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local community.

If you share our vision, take your place with us.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

Person specification:

Knowledge, Skills and Performance:

Essential criteria:

Medical practitioner registered and licensed to practice in the UK by the GMC.
A commitment to lifelong learning and undertaking personal development opportunities.
MEs should have uptodate knowledge of causes of death and an understanding of the legal frameworks associated with death certification processes.
Knowledge of the special requirements of various faith groups and respect for equality and diversity

Safety and Quality - Clinical Governance:

Essential criteria:

Knowledge of local and national clinical governance systems and an understanding of how the ME can work collaboratively to improve patient safety by identifying suboptimal clinical and organisational performance.
Ability to identify available data sources to support the detection and analysis of concerns and to recognise gaps in available knowledge.
Ability to identify and disseminate examples of good practice amongst relevant colleagues.

Communication and teamwork:

Essential criteria:

Strong interpersonal skills demonstrating the ability to communicate in difficult and emotional situations with empathy and professionalism.
Ability to work effectively and efficiently within own team and also closely with people in other disciplines
Ability to work as part of a team and organise a fluctuating workload around competing priorities and numerous interruptions.

Personal qualities and behavioural attributes:

Essential criteria: