Medical Examiner Officer Lead: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 39,959 to 48,117 £ / Year

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

Job summary

Medical Examiner Officer Lead

37.5 hours per week (Flexible working arrangements considered)

Permanent

Salary: £39,959 – £48,117 per annum

Closing Date: Thursday 20th August 2026

Interview Date: TBC

**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces Community – get in touch to find out more

#JoinTeamEliot

To support medical examiners in their role in scrutinising the circumstances and causes of death. To be a point of contact and source of advice for relatives of deceased patients, healthcare professionals and coroner and registration services.

Main duties of the job

  • Act independently within statutory requirements governing all aspects of Medical review workload.
  • To establish the circumstances of individual patient deaths by performing a preliminary review of medical records to identify clinical and circumstantial information, sourcing additional details where required, for scrutiny by the medical examiner.
  • To assist in highlighting cases for further assessment through the Serious Incident Framework, Structured Judgment Review (SJR), Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP), Mortality and Morbidity Meetings (M&M) Directorate Governance Meetings and the Learning Disability Review (LeDeR).
  • To refer patients to the coroner for further investigation on approval by the Medical Examiner
  • To organise and manage the rota for the Medical Examiners to ensure daily cover.
  • Maintain an awareness of the diverse needs of users of the medical examiner system to ensure equality to any group defined by sex, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or disability.
  • Full compliance with secure handling of patient identifiable data is essential.
  • To work with the Regional Medical Examiner Officer to maintain the Medical Examiner service in line with national proposals and lead the development of the Medical Examiner service in the community in conjunction with the Lead Medical Examiner.
  • Attend regional MEO, Service and other ME Meetings when directed.
  • Line manages the Medical Examiner Officer(s).

Person Specification

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of a range of procedures and practices relating to the management and provision of death/mortality reviews acquired through formal training to degree level or equivalent experience
  • Experience of working with people in sensitive and emotional situations.
  • Make judgements regarding workload and performance management, assessment of review of deaths procedures, quality of outcomes and systems and processes.
  • Advance keyboard skills and use of IT packages and the ability to analyse complex data
  • Experience of working at a senior level in the NHS
  • Experience of working in a healthcare setting with multi-disciplinary teams across organisational boundaries.
  • Strong interpersonal skills demonstrating the ability to communicate in difficult and emotional situations with empathy and professionalism with all stakeholders.
  • Acts independently within statutory requirements governing all aspects of Medical review workload
  • Plan and organise complex medical examiner activities and programmes of work requiring developing, amending a broad range of complex activities, and adjustment of plans / strategies
  • Knowledge of the Coroner & Justice Act 2009 reference to the medical examiner system. Full understanding of the medical examiner system operational remit.
  • Completed e-learning MEO core training modules prior to starting in the post.
  • Previous experience of training / supervising other staff

Desirable

  • Knowledge of the special requirements of various faith groups and respect for equality and diversity of issues around formalities following a death.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 20 August 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.