Job summary
- Main area
- Medical Examiner
- Grade
- Medical Examiner (Consultant)
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Annualised hours - 4 hours per week (4 hours per week on Mondays x 2 posts available)
- Job ref
- 356-25-7310208
- Employer
- Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hull Royal Infirmary
- Town
- Hull
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Medical Examiner
Medical Examiner (Consultant)
Job overview
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) created the Medical Examiner service in response to the Shipman Inquiry. Medical examiners provide independent scrutiny of the causes of death in cases not investigated by a coroner. Since 9th September 2024 it has been a statutory requirement for all non-coronial deaths to be scrutinised by a medical examiner.
We require a medical examiner to work an office-based 4-hour session on Monday or Tuesday and Friday afternoons (2 posts), usually based at Hull Royal Infirmary with the occasional requirement to work at Castle Hill Hospital.
Main duties of the job
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust hosts the Medical Examiner Office for Hull and East Yorkshire. Current staffing comprises 1.8 WTE medical examiners and 5.2 WTE medical examiner officers. Relationships with local GPs, mental health facilities, private care sector and the hospice are all in place.
Applicants must have capacity within their working week to accommodate a weekly, fixed four hour session in the medical examiner office.
The medical examiner service is required to provide out of hours weekend cover for early release of the deceased and organ donation. The requirement in Hull and East Yorkshire is low, usually limited to remote cover on Saturday mornings for 2 hours with office attendance rare. Your contract will include on-call cover on occasional Saturday mornings for 2 hours.
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Applications are encouraged from general practitioners and senior doctors of all specialties with GMC Registration and a Licence to Practice for at least 5 years.
Duties will include reviewing the notes of deceased patients, discussing cases with clinical teams and coroner’s service, identifying cases for more detailed review, liaising with the bereaved and training health care professionals in death certification processes.
Your employer will be Hull University Hospitals NHS Trust. Salary will be on the consultant pay scale, calculated according to your previous experience.
Please see attached Job Description for more information
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GMC Registration with a Licence to Practice for at least 5 years
- • Good understanding of role and duties of medical examiner/ medical examiner service
- • Capacity within working week to accommodate a weekly, fixed four-hour session in the medical examiner office.
- • Have a plan to complete the face to face component of the Medical Examiner Curriculum on appointment
Desirable criteria
- • At least partial completion of the national on-line Medical Examiner curriculum
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge of medical conditions and treatments
- Detailed knowledge of relevant legislation and processes which apply to the determination of death
- • The determination of whether a death is natural or unnatural
- • Deaths that must be reported to the coroner
- • Deaths abroad where bodies are returned to England and Wales for disposal
- • Deaths where relatives wish to transport the body abroad for disposal
- • Certifying and registering deaths and the regulations to authorise cremation or burials of stillbirths abroad.
- • Knowledge of the special requirements of various faith groups and respect for equality and diversity
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
- • Able to exercise judgement about when to seek specialist advice
- • Be aware of, and be able to adapt, own personal communication style to suit a variety of situations and audiences.
- • Highly evolved self-awareness and empathetic skills to liaise effectively and sympathetically with bereaved families
- • Able to demonstrate and combine appropriate levels of compassion with professionalism and discretion
- • Open to constructive criticism, ideas and solutions
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- • Act as a positive role model, interacting appropriately with all stakeholders including medical examiner officers, other medical examiners, the bereaved and the coroner
- • Personal integrity to gain trust and comply with the independent nature of the medical examiner role in the context of other clinical specialty duties.
- • Have good IT skills including use of databases, spreadsheets, electronic patient records, email, and commonly used software.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Fiona Thomson
- Job title
- Medical Examiner / Consultant Geriatrician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01482 482157
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