Mortuary Manager: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

The Mortuary Manager is accountable to the General Manager. The purpose of the Mortuary Manager is to be the professional lead for Mortuary and Bereavement Services across the Trust and take the lead on ensuring that quality standards and regulatory compliance is met across all Trust sites.

They will work closely with operational teams to ensure the effective delivery of services to patients in accordance with agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, controls and resource constraints. The Mortuary Manager will be expected to support the General Manager in the delivery of Trust objectives and ensuring national targets are achieved.

The post holder will support the Clinical Director and General Manager with the development and delivery of a strategic vision and ensure service changes meet internal and external expectations and standards.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will need to understand the business requirements and implement plans for service improvement using modernisation techniques and involve patients to ensure changes to services meet patient’s expectations as well as ensuring the required capacity to meet key clinical performance targets.

Person Specification

Knowledge/Qualifications

Essential

• oRelevant Masters, equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience.
• oEvidence of recent Continuing Professional Development.
• oRSPH Certificate & Diploma of Anatomical Pathology Technology, or RSPH Level 3 and 4 Diploma in Healthcare Science (Anatomical Pathology Technology)

Desirable

• oCompleted e-learning MEO core training modules
• oPrince 2 qualification or equivalent experience
• oUnderstanding of lean methodology

Previous experience

Essential

• Supervision, training and teaching Healthcare professionals
• oEvidence of managing successful project and / or operational performance a
• Operational experience in managing complex services including design, development, implementation and management of change in a multiple stakeholder environment.
• Experience of managing complex budgets from a range of income sources and demonstrable evidence of individual, team, financial, process and change management.
• Extensive experience working as an Anatomical Pathology Technologist.

Desirable

• oKnowledge and understanding of the changing NHS environment, strategy, and policy agendas.
• oExperience of working within the Medical Examiner framework.

Skills

Essential

• oPractical knowledge of current mortuary & bereavement practices and legislation
• oKnowledge of Human Tissue Act
• oKnowledge of the Coroner & Justice Act 2009 reference to the medical examiner system. Full understanding of the medical examiner system operational remit when incorporated within Bereavement Services.
• oKnowledge of the Coroner & Justice Act 2009 reference to the medical examiner system. Full understanding of the medical examiner system operational remit when incorporated within Bereavement Services.
• oHighly effective people and project management skills.
• oUse advanced analytical and judgement skills including understanding and application of complex statistical and numerical data.
• oWork flexibly, prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements.
• oExcellent interpersonal, communication (written, oral, presentation, facilitation), networking and negotiation skills with a track record in consistently delivering performance targets and writing complex business cases, policies and change.
• oExcellent management skills including motivating and coaching staff.
• oExcellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines and delegate effectively.
• oAbility to find innovative ways of solving or pre-empting problems.
• oIT literate, including competency in MS Office programmes and in particular in Excel.

Desirable

• oExtensive knowledge of contract management.
• oExcellent understanding and track record of successful change and project management.
• oExtensive knowledge of operations and / or project management methodologies and techniques.

Closing Date: 17 August 2026